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Ambermoon is the second game in Thalion’s never-finished Amber trilogy that was started out by Amberstar. The sequel is set more than half a century after the first game, the world of Lyramion just starting to recover from the destruction caused by the collapse of the red moon. The original protagonist is an old, dying man as the game … Continue reading “Ambermoon”
Year: 1993
Platforms: Amiga
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
SAY ANYTHING in Cryptmaster – the bizarre dungeon-crawling adventure where words control everything. In the ancient past, four brave heroes banded together to destroy a terrible evil, giving their lives to save countless others. But now their eternal rest has been disturbed by the Cryptmaster, a capricious necromancer in whose thrall they must ascend through … Continue reading “Cryptmaster”
Year: 2024
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Lichdom: Battlemage is a first-person action game with RPG elements where the focus is centered around casting and combining different spells. The player is given control of an mage with infinite power that can cast spells without any need of mana or rest. The player can choose between three sigils (spell schools) at any given time. … Continue reading “Lichdom: Battlemage”
Year: 2014
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
Genre: Action, Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: RPG elements
A thousand years ago, a young Black Magician named Tar valiantly fought the demon lord Thornahuun, who was revealed to be his own father. However, Thornahuun managed to possess his son’s soul and corrupt it. Tar declared himself Lord Tarbos and brought terror to the land of Lyramion, before being locked away in a secure … Continue reading “Amberstar”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Viewed isometrically, this role-playing game saw you leading a party of four intrepid souls on a mission to restore peace to the land. Sixteen levels awaited them, all filled with traps and monsters. Spells could be collected as the game went on, and multiple ones cast in quick succession. The characters could be split, and … Continue reading “Shadowlands”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
When Richard MacIntyre, the hero of the first Hiōden, became old, he retired from his duties, intending to spend the rest of his days in a secluded location together with the dryad Beatrix. But one day, the old king meets a little girl and gives her a present – a ring that Beatrix gave him … Continue reading “Hiouden II”
Year: 1994
Platforms: FM Towns
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
The main character is Richard A. MacInyre, who has been deposed from his throne by the rival Macaulays. The only one in his castle to escape execution, he makes a pact with a dryad that gives him the ability to summon demons, thereby gaining a dark army to take back his kingdom. The strategy is … Continue reading “Hiouden: Mamonotachi tono Chikai (Legend of the Scarlet Kind: Pact with the Demons)”
Year: 1992
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
The land of Trazere is in a state of emergency as an ancient force of chaos begins to transform ordinary citizens into monsters. Seeking to save the kingdom, four heroic adventurers gather at the city of Treihadwyl. The game has a map view and a dungeon view and sports a fascinating magic system and isometric … Continue reading “The Four Crystals of Trazere”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler, Turn-based strategy
World of Xeen combines two games – Clouds of Xeen and Darkside of Xeen – into a single game that can be played continuously. The player-controlled party can travel between the worlds of the two games using special devices that can find through exploration. Completing the main quests in both games opens the final quest, … Continue reading “Might & Magic: World of Xeen”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Macintosh
Genre: Compilation, Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
After three games in the Bard’s Tale universe, Interplay gave fans the chance to create their own games based on the game engine. You can design your own Monsters (choosing their look from existing ones or by drawing it yourself), level layouts (from the pre-defined objects of Bard’s Tale III), spells and collectible objects. Your … Continue reading “The Bard’s Tale Construction Set”
Year: 1991
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy