T-Zero

T-Zero is a highly unusual piece of epic interactive fiction, playing in a
Lewis Carroll-like surreal surrounding, with a strong emphasis on word
puzzles.

The game starts with you awakening in a River Bed. You have to explore your
surroundings to find six objects, “scattered across ages and landscapes”, to
transport them “to progressively future time zones where they can right the
troubled times.”

The puzzles are quite hard, as they often use puns (as in Infocom’s Nord and
Bert) or elements of Western pop culture (like the Beatles). Non-native
English speakers could have a hard time to solve this game.

The parser of T-Zero is quite unusual, powerful but tricky. It understands
uncommon verbs like IMAGINE (this one allows you to visualize objects and
locations have not encountered). Still, it sometimes is quite touchy and
requests you to type the exact phrase it wants.

The game also contains a hint system.

T-Zero