Knight Orc
- Genres
- Adventure
- Platforms
- DOS · Mac · Commodore C64/128/MAX · Amiga · Amstrad CPC · ZX Spectrum · MSX · Atari ST/STE · Atari 8-bit · Apple II
- Release
- Amiga 1987 Month only Amstrad CPC 1987 Month only Commodore C64/128/MAX 1987 Month only MSX 1987 Month only DOS 1987 Month only Apple II 1987 Month only Atari 8-bit 1987 Month only Atari ST/STE 1987 Month only Mac 1987 Month only ZX Spectrum 1987 Month only
- Credits
- F Firebird R Rainbird LC Level 9 Computing
- Board status
- —
About
Knight Orc is a standard text adventure game, with limited graphics on some platforms, by Level 9 released in 1987. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, Grindleguts the orc awakes to find himself strapped to a horse and about to joust with a human knight. His "friends" are nowhere to be seen, and he must somehow escape from his predicament and get even with them. Grindleguts must survive in a world of hostile humans while seeking revenge against his tormentors. After the first chapter, the game switches to science fiction setting where Grindleguts is revelaled to be a malfunctioning non-player character in a futuristic MMORPG. Using his power of transitioning between fantasy and reality, he convinces several other bots to join him, and escapes from the simulated reality facility.