Alternate Reality: The City cover

Alternate Reality: The City

First release
Oct 1985
Genres
Role-playing (RPG) · Science fiction

In Alternate Reality: The City, you are one of many people who have been abducted from earth by aliens and transported to an alternate dimension where you are dumped in a strange, yet familiar city. Your quest is to explore the city, and find the clues that will lead you to your captors and help you get back home. In addition to standard first-person RPG features of that era, like skills, stats, experience points and a repertoire of shops and places to visit, the game offers moral evaluation of your character, and depending on your actions you become good or evil, and that affects how the environment reacts to you. Encounters are not necessarily just resolved with the turn-based combat system, but you can also try to trick, charm or bribe opponents. The storyline is non-linear, for example allowing you to take a job in order to enhance a particular skill or just to pass away time.

Also known as Alternative Reality Part I: The City, Alternative Reality Part 1: The City

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Release dates
Atari 8-bit
Oct 1985
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Dec 1985
Atari 8-bit
1985
All 13 release dates
Apple II
1985
Atari ST/STE
Dec 1986
Commodore C64/128/MAX
1986
Atari ST/STE
1986
Mac
Nov 1987
DOS
Dec 1987
Amiga
Dec 1987
Amiga
1988
TRS-80 Color Computer
1988
iOS
Oct 28, 2011
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person

How it plays

Languages

  • Englishinterface
IGDB · recorded 30 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 30 Oct 2026