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A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985)

0.1744Canon Score · ranked #145 all time

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About the game

A Mind Forever Voyaging is a 1985 interactive fiction game written and designed by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom. Set in a future United States in 2031, players assume the role of PRISM, an artificial intelligence tasked to observe the impact of sweeping conservative policies on a simulated South Dakota town over several decades, leading to societal and ecological collapse. Following the success of co-writi

Why it ranks #145

Every list on which A Mind Forever Voyaging appears, with its position as published.

ListAuthorityPosition
Next Generation Top 100 (1996)Editorial list#66 / 100
Polygon 500 Best (2017)Critics' canon#221 / 500
1001 Video Games (2013 ed.)Critics' canonSelected
Hardcore Gaming 101 Top 200 (2020)Editorial listSelected