Return to Doom

Return to Doom is a video game in the adventure genre developed by Topologika Software Ltd. and published by Topologika Software Ltd. originally released in 1988. It is currently playable on DOS.

The second game in Topologika's Doom trilogy, after Countdown to Doom, Return to Doom sends you, the only explorer to have survived the planet Doomawangara, flying back to the cursed planet in response to a distress call. Your mission: rescue an ambassador who has been kidnapped by renegade robots.

Don't let the deceptively easy early puzzles fool you: Return to Doom is no less challenging than Topologika's other games, and the huge game world guarantees you'll spend dozens of hours pulling your hair out in frustration. Peter Killworth's trademark ingenious but wicked puzzles are here in abundance: you'll face alternate universes, alien contraptions, and even strange weather.

In a nod to Infocom's classic Planetfall, you'll even befriend a robotic dog that will make you want to laugh and cry at the same time, though you won't grow as fond of him as you will of Floyd. The writing, as usual in a Topologika game, is excellent, full of wonderful details and witty anecdotes that show the effort Killingworth put into each of his games.

Return to Doom ends with an exciting nail-biting sequence, worthy of an Indiana Jones episode, that closes the banal but well-written plot.

Undoubtedly a high point in Killingworth's career, and a solid challenge for IF veterans. thumbs up!

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