Roberta Williams’ reimagining will even head to the Swap

Colossal Cave – Reimagined by Roberta Williams is including one other platform to its lineup. The 3D remake of the journey traditional is now additionally discovering a house on Nintendo Swap.

The remake of the unique Colossal Cave Journey can be aiming to launch on PC and the Meta Quest 2. No launch date has been set but, although it has a window of Fall 2022.

We acquired information of the Colossal Cave reimagining earlier this yr, with Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams revisiting the journey traditional.

Colossal Cave Journey was initially a text-based journey launched within the ’70s by Will Crowther and Don Woods. It was the inspiration for a lot of video games to comply with. Zork, Rogue, and Journey all owe a good deal to this unique recreation about looking a cave for treasure. And now the Williams are bringing it to 3D, on fashionable platforms, and to a brand new technology.

“Colossal Cave – Reimagined by Roberta Williams will quickly be accessible to avid gamers worldwide on a further platform,” mentioned Ken Williams in a press launch. “We hope to deliver again the spirit of conventional journey video games for devoted followers who grew up with the unique recreation and the brand new technology of explorers alike. We consider bringing Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams to the Nintendo Swap will assist us try this.”

Dive additional into the cave

The remake will head again right into a cave, with gamers exploring an enormous underground labyrinth with their lantern and dwindling oil provide. Many alternative sights and puzzles await down beneath, and this model could have a number of totally different easter eggs and hidden treasures to find.

Swap getting a model of this appears implausible. The portability is one upside, for positive. However having Colossal Cave head to a reasonably standard console alongside PC and VR means much more gamers might play it. It’s good to see a chunk of gaming historical past re-released like this.

Colossal Cave is anticipated to launch in fall 2022.