Literal Encounters

Video game concept

Both sides may attempt to encounter, avoid, and/or remain unseen to each other in a realistic manner.

28
games
12
platforms
Basically this eliminates, or hides extremely well, contrived rules that cause encounters to happen as in the cases of, most notably, -random, -unset, -popup, -timed, -conditional, and -optional.
-literal may or may not -respawn and both types may coexist in a game.

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Parent group

Encounters

Games by year

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The first Literal Encounters video game was released in 1981.

Beamdog and Orange Pixel published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 12
Windows 4
MS-DOS 3
Internet Only 1
Mac OS X 1
GamePark 32 1
NeXT 1
Unix 1
BSD 1
Atari 400/800 1
Tandy Coco 1
OS/2 1