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A game that emphasizes exploration and treasure-hunting, typically expecting the [[player]] to solve [[puzzle]]s in order to gain access to new items and areas.

The first IF game, ''[[Adventure|Colossal Cave Adventure]]'', the popular ''[[Zork]]'' series (which featured the "[[Great Underground Empire]]"), and [[Scott Adams]]'s ''[[Adventureland]]'' are all cave-crawl games. [[Gregory Yob]]'s ''[[Hunt the Wumpus]]'' (1972), while not [[interactive fiction]], is a battle with a cave-dwelling beast; it and ''Adventure'' were ubiquitous on computer networks from the mid 70s on. 

The term has generalized enough to apply to a treasure-hunt in any setting, but the more specific "dungeon crawl" is properly applied to fantasy-combat settings.

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