If you need to slow down your processor, you can lower the TDP to 15W in the motherboard BIOS.
Run also a CPU intensive program at the same time to further slow the CPU

This is honestly one of my favourite games of all time. I played it when it came out in the 90s and I don't remember ever finishing it, certainly not without cheating. I am blown away by the beauty of the aesthetic and maturity of the story, particularly compared to the rest of the franchise. A stunning, timeless game. I defy the reader to name me a better game by Activision. I'm begging someone, anyone, please upscale this, but when you do, keep the original video sequences the same. <3

Infocom <3

As some others have commented, I also had to request a refund.
Sound glitches a lot, and mouse panning is too fast. Extremely difficult to play, almost impossible.

Outside of Riven, and maybe few other Myst series games, this is one of the best. Old, but a true masterpiece. Highly recommend.

This is one of my favorite oldies. After Zork 1 etc i still have the original games.

I’m giving this game a positive review, but only just. I would almost give this game a negative review, and here is why:

First of all is the image quality of this game. It is bad, real bad. Maybe it is because of image compression or something. The 640x480 screen resolution does not explain how bad the image quality is. I am aware that this game is old, but Zork Nemesis is from 1996, that is 3 years after the release of Myst, and Myst had much better image quality. If I compare this game to another game from 1996, let it be Lighthouse: The Dark Being, then the difference is also enormous. Lighthouse: The Dark Being also had much better image quality.

What bothered me even more than the image quality is the sound quality, which is also horrible. In many of the cutscenes I was unable to determine what the actors were saying and there are no subtitles in this DOS version of Zork Nemesis. This made it difficult for me to follow the story. There was one puzzle in the game which involved six talking heads. Of all six talking heads I could not hear what they were saying. All of them, all six, no matter how hard I tried, I could not decipher what they were saying. I could not solve this puzzle on my own.

Third thing that bothered me was that this game is hard to beat without a walkthrough, for several different reasons. The difficulty level of the puzzles ranges from very easy to very hard. It is for the hard puzzles that I needed to consult a walkthrough. Also, there was a floor in the game that had a trapdoor, but the trapdoor was barely visible because the image was too dark. And there were also several moments in the game where there were objects in the scene that could be interacted with, but the mouse pointer did not indicate these objects as interactable, which should be a bug.

Besides these negatives the game has mostly good sides. The game has some good puzzles with some eureka moments. The exploration of the different worlds is worthwile. The story is well done and some of the acting in the cutscenes was very good. It is clear that they hired professional actors to do the acting. Besides the negatives I still had some fun playing this game and for that reason I give it a thumbs up.

The UI moves too quickly no matter what speed you set it at. The game is unplayable.

It doesn't save but it's still so fun

for me it takes a lot of remembering and thinking