🚀 Galaxy Hunt, 🌲 Adventureland, 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Adventure

13 October 2026. Three games that want you to type.

🚀 Galaxy Hunt

A Super Star Trek, played from a green prompt. The galaxy is 8 by 8 quadrants. Some of them hold raider ships, some hold an alliance outpost, all of them hold stars.

The mission is on the opening screen: destroy every raider before the stardate runs out. Energy, missiles, and shields are finite. Dock by flying onto an outpost when the ship is falling apart. That resupplies and repairs you.

Commands, short on purpose:

• NAV course warp — course is 1 to 9 around a compass rose, warp is 0.1 to 8
• SRS and LRS — short-range map, long-range map
• BEA energy — beams
• MIS course — a missile
• SHE energy — shields
• DAM, COM, STA — damage, the library computer, status
• HELP — the rose, the emoji key, and this list again
• QUIT — abandon the mission

The map key is the hunter 🚀, a raider 👾, a star ⭐, an outpost 🏢, and a dot for empty space. Stars block you and they block missiles. Run out of energy, or out of time, and the mission fails.

🌲 Adventureland

The classic chain, White Witch edition. You start in a dark forest. A sleeping dragon occupies the meadow and does not like mud. There is a lake, a bog, a swamp, a cypress you can climb, and a hollow stump.

The stump is where the treasures go. There are thirteen of them. SCORE counts them out of 13.

Move with N S E W U D, or GO and a direction. LOOK, INVENTORY, GET, DROP. The puzzles that are not directions are on the help list, and they are exact: SAY BUNYON, SAY AWAY, RUB LAMP, LIGHT LAMP, UNLOCK DOOR, YELL, JUMP, FILL, CATCH, DAM, POUR. If a line comes back as “I don’t understand,” HELP is that list again.

🏴‍☠️ Pirate Adventure

You wake up in a London flat. A bookcase, a window, a book about pirates. East is the street, then the dock, a ship, a parrot, and a hold. South of the dock is the island: jungle, a clearing, a cave, a beach, a boat.

Three of the objects are the point. The chest of pirate gold, the bag of jewels, and the pile of coins are treasures. The book, the parrot, the anchor, the machete, the map, the bottle, and the key are how you get to them. The skeleton does not come with you.

Same shape as Adventureland. Directions, GET, DROP, and a few extra verbs: READ, OPEN, SAY, CLIMB, BOARD, FILL. SCORE tells you how many treasures you have secured. HELP if you would rather not guess.

Pieces of eight.