Hunter, in Darkness

Hunter, in Darkness is a 1999 interactive fiction game by Andrew Plotkin, written in Inform.

It won the "Best Individual Puzzle" and "Best Setting" categories in the 1999 XYZZY Awards, and came in eighth overall in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition.

As in Hunt the Wumpus, the player's goal is to locate and defeat the title beast within its cave, but Hunter, in Darkness emphasizes the setting, describing the cave in much greater detail than the earlier work.

All that discussion of compassless games, and mazes, and whether Hunt the Wumpus was really IF, made me giggle.

I didn't start any of that discussion, either -- although I contributed a few comments that I knew would turn out relevant.