Reception
With its simple, straightforward plot and design, In Search of the Unknown was regarded as a good introduction to running the D&D game.
Don Turnbull reviewed In Search of the Unknown in issue No. 13 of the magazine White Dwarf (June/July 1979), and gave the module a rating of 9 out of 10. He compared this module to Against the Giants and Descent into the Depths of the Earth, complimenting In Search of the Unknown's "excellent format, for instance, and the comprehensive way in which the scenario is introduced. TSR's high quality has not been in any way compromised". Turnbull criticized the module's use of Roman numerals as references, stating that ordinary numerals do the job much better.
The module was reviewed in Shadis magazine in 1996.
Ken Denmead of Wired listed the module as one of the "Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend". According to Denmead, the module is "a classic dungeon crawl for beginning characters."
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