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Sound

Video game concept

Gameplay involves producing or interacting with sound in some manner.

37
games
16
platforms

Alternate names: Sound gameplay, Sound interaction

Jetfighter: The Adventure (MS-DOS)
Jetfighter: The Adventure
DOS 1989
El Grinch (MS-DOS)
El Grinch
DOS 1983
Cosmic Fighter (TRS-80)
Cosmic Fighter
TRS 1980
Dark Echo (Windows)
Dark Echo
WIN 2015-05-11
Loom (Amiga OCS)
Loom
OCS 1990
Loom (MS-DOS)
Loom
DOS 1990
Voyage of the Valkyrie! (TRS-80)
Voyage of the Valkyrie!
TRS 1980
Aquaria (Linux)
Aquaria
LIN 2010-05-04
Loom (Atari ST)
Loom
ST 1990
Aquaria (Mac OS X)
Aquaria
OSX 2008-11-13
The Witness (Windows)
The Witness
WIN 2016-01-26
Lost Eden (MS-DOS)
Lost Eden
DOS 1995
This is NOT for speech synthesis or speech recognition, nor for sound cues or music games.

Nor is this for games that simply have sounds.

This likely makes the game extremely difficult or even impossible for deaf (or near deaf) people if there are no tactile or visual feedback for the sounds.

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Parent group

Audio

Related group

Game genre
Music game

Games by year

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The first Sound video game was released in 1978.

Big Five, RAC7 Games and Lucasfilm Games published most of these games.

Platforms

TRS-80 10
Windows 4
MS-DOS 4
Linux 3
Mac OS X 2
Apple II E 2
iOS 2
Tandy Coco 2
Win3.1 1
Android 1
BSD 1
Ohio Scientific 1
Sol-20 1
DEC PDP-1 1
Amiga 1
Atari ST 1