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The Warden Game

DOS

Release Date: December 31, 1987
Genres: Adventure
Game Type: Main game
Platforms: DOS, Web browser
Game Modes: Single-player
Player Perspective: Text

Overview

The Warden Game is a text-adventure style game that helps players understand the contradictions of prison life in an age of mass incarceration. Designed by Ed Mead around 1987, while he was incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe, the game explores power in prison and how individuals exercise it.