Softporn II

This game was played during breaks between lessons, and when the teacher approached, it disappeared from the screen faster than a cat fleeing bathwater. Softporn Adventure II is a text adventure from 1985, created by Topologika—a game that bounced around on disks in every other school and computer club on the fringes of normalcy throughout the nineties.

It's a sequel to the original Softporn from 1982, a text-based story about seeking erotic adventures in a hotel. The game delivers exactly what it promises: a minimalist parser where you enter commands like "go to..." and "talk to...", and then you're treated to text describing encounters with various characters. Graphics? None. Sound? A formality. Everything lives in your imagination—which is exactly why it was considered daring in the 80s.

The game functions as a guide to subject matter that was almost taboo on computers back then. It's not a game in the modern sense—no score, no "game over", no definitive solution. It's more like interactive reading with minimal choices. Command parsing is fundamentally limited, so you'll spend time trying different word combinations and hitting pre-written text blocks. Playability? Zero, aside from initial curiosity.

Historically, Softporn II has its cult following. It represents an era when computer games didn't need graphics to become "the talk" among the guys. It was an opportunity to probe censorship, to test what could be done on a computer. Today it's viewed with a slight smirk—it's primitive, it's faceless, it's marginally tasteless. But that's precisely what makes it an artifact of its time.

Playing it today isn't worth your while. It's not a game to pick up for fun or challenge. You can fire it up in a browser as a curiosity, as proof that even in the 80s someone tried to play the rebel, but all you'll see on screen is white text on a black background, and you'll feel just how desperately boring entertainment must have been without the internet.