[1] Microsoft Adventure is a text game in which the player explores caves and acquires treasure, using one- or two-word commands to move or manipulate objects, and the game awards points for successfully exploring areas and gathering treasure.

[2] The environment consists of 130 rooms containing 15 treasures, 40 useful objects and 12 problems for the players to solve.

[3] The game features most of the content as Colossal Cave Adventure, along with a few locations unique to this version.

IBM later included Microsoft Adventure as the only game in the initial software releases for the IBM Personal Computer,[2] making it one of the first two games available for the new computer[4] along with DONKEY.BAS (which was included in the operating system).

Carrington Dixon reviewed Microsoft Adventure in The Space Gamer No.