showing 16 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | rank | |
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| Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar | Origin (Origin Systems) | 1985 | Comes on two 5.25' disks. In 1997 the full version of this game was 'made available for free download' at selected sites by Origin. However, it remains proprietary and not defined as "freeware" or "public domain" (these downloads can disappear or the priced raised at any time at Electronic Art's option). Several homebrew upgrades exist for this game that add features such as VGA graphics and Midi sound. The xu4 project allows this game to run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS 8, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. xu4 Also allows extensive modding of the graphics, enemies, items, and certain game logic. The Ultima series continued to innovate with the release of each game in the series. With the 4th game released for Apple ][ and then ported to IBM-PC, the genre was taken to bran new places. There is no evil big bad enemy to defeat, and the point of the game is not to take advantage of people to get stuff to go defeat the enemy. Rather, the point of the game is for the main character to become a champion of virtue. The goals are literally honesty, humility, honor, spirituality, valor, justice, compassion, sacrifice, courage, truth, and love. Actions, inactions, even words can have less than apparent unhelpful or helpful consequences. Yes, there are still monsters to fight and treasures to find, but this makes up less than 1/8th of the game and the care and purpose in handling these things is more important than the end result. [Zerothis] |  | labelimagesubject |
| Demon's Winter | SSI | 1989 | [22]*** [52]***dark / map deficient - you only see your immediate surroundings and have no map. |  | labelimageminimize |
| The Magic Candle | Mindcraft | 1989 | labelimageminimize | ||
| The Dark Heart of Uukrul | Brøderbund (Digital Studios) | 1990 | [49]***This game has some interactive fiction, adventure and not yet defined elements. Players can visually search the room or listen find secrets, to get descriptions of the room, find riddles that hint at solutions to puzzles, and/or find clues to events in the nearby area. These are returned as text as the game has no sound whatsoever. Advancement must be confirmed by player actions. Crosses are not just symbols in this game, they are apparently melee weapons. Equipment can require a minimum level of experience and/or a minimum character attribute. Clerics must pray to cast spells (all one action). The petitioned god can grant the cast, not answer, or punish the character. These random responses seem to be based on the character's previous actions but the mechanism is unclear. The game is automatically saved much the same way as typical rogue-likes but a bit less often. Simply walking from one place to the next does not prompt a save, but reading a clue or resolving an encounter does. There is also a game "backup" save system. When a player is in a "sanctuary" they may manually create a second save. Experience is shared but most of it distributed unequally based on a character's participation. The mechanism is unclear. Killing blows and attacks delivering significant damage have the most reward. Other actions are rewarded as well no mater what the result. Every character still gets something even if they did not interact with the battle at all. For example, if the first move of a battle is the player's fighter killing a single foe with a single blow, all other party members will get at least 1 XP or more for a stronger enemey.***If a character sacrifices their life to save their fellows, they lose piety. Dying is heresy, how [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran_of_Iona]Oran[/url]ic¡*** [63]*** [52]*** [37] | | labelimageminimize |
| Eye of the Beholder | SSI (Westwood Studios) | 1991 | [22]*** [63]*** [52]*** [37]***You control a party of four heroes tasked by the lords of Waterdeep to investigate some foul stuff going on by entering the vast sewer system below the city. Saved games can be loaded into a new game in the sequel ([game=#40320]EOB2[/game]); minus the special items. [Zerothis] |  | labelimageminimize |
| Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon | SSI (Westwood Associates) | 1991 | Saved games from the prequel ([game=#33382]EOB1[/game]) can be loaded into this game when starting; minus the special items. Saved games can be loaded into a new game in the sequel ([game=#38757]EOB3[/game]); minus the special items. [Zerothis] |  | labelimageminimize |
| The Magic Candle II - The Four and Forty | Mindcraft | 1991 | [22]*** [37]***"IBM/Tandy version" | | labelimageminimize |
| Quest for Glory III: Wages of War | Sierra On-Line | 1992 | | labelimageminimize | |
| The Magic Candle 3 | Mindcraft | 1992 |  | labelimageminimize | |
| Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor | SSI | 1993 | Saved games from the prequel ([game=#40320]EOB2[/game]) can be loaded into this game when starting; minus the special items. [Zerothis] | | labelimageminimize |
| Heirs to Skull Crag | SSI (MicroMagic;SSI) | 1993 | Heirs to Skull Crag is the game, exclusively available in no other package game, real game, actual game, existing game, playable game, completable that comes the the Unlimited Adventures game creator which is in every other videogam database with tools to create AD&D based adventures, or even other types of adventures based on the Gold Box Engine. The executable is "FRUA.EXE" and the letters stand for "Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures". But UA is by no means limited to the Forgotten Realms setting. Materials from other settings are included and players are free to create their own or download UGC from the aforementioned site. | labelimagesubject | |
| Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos | Virgin Interactive (Westwood Studios) | 1993 | [59]***CD-ROM version [37]***Floppy disk version [37]***[media=youtube]DKdBs7Pc1JE[/media]***Latest version: 1.23 (as of 1994-04?), 1.02 for CD release White Label CD release is pre-patched to "1.02D".***[b]Minimum:[/b] * 386SX / 25 MHz CPU * 4 MB RAM * VGA or MCGA GPU * 5 MB free HD space For voices: Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, AdLib Gold, or AdLib Gold Standard. For music: Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, AdLib Gold, AdLib Gold, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1 or General MIDI. The CD-ROM (White Label) version mentions Win3.1, but this is only for compatibility info.***1993 original floppy release 1994 CD-ROM - full speech and additional narrative history of the lands by Patrick Stewart 1996 CD-ROM - "special" white label European release. No idea what's so special about it, even though I have this. Doesn't appear any different from the '94 release, except maybe the box art.***A Legend has been born...Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos is a fantasy, role playing adventure like no other. "Scotia, the hideous hag wants it all... power... riches...lland...THE WORLD! Can she be stopped? The truth stone must be found before her evil can be defated" The sheer scale, superb art animation and incredible special effects, will transport you through over thirty unique areas. As one of the seven characters that you can choose from, you will face over fifty intelligent and believable monsters in mortal combat. Fantasy and reality become one, in lands where the only law is survival. [Box blurb] | | labelimagesubject |
| The Elder Scrolls: Arena | Bethesda Softworks | 1994 | [b]Minimum:[/b] * DOS 5.0 * 25 MHz 386 CPU * 4 MB RAM * 25 MB HD space * VGA display * mouse***The game was formerly commercial, but was released as freeware at some point. | | labelimageminimize |
| Dragon Lore II: The Heart of the Dragon Man | Cryo Interactive Entertainment | 1996 | | labelimageminimize | |
| Descent To Undermountain | Interplay (Dragon Play) | 1997 | Latest version: 1.3 (as of ?) | labelimageminimize | |
| Baldur's Gate: Edition spéciale | Interplay Productions | 1998 | labelminimizeminimize |
