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Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Mar 27, 1992
A sequel to Ultima Underworld made by the original team. The game attempts to modernize the series while keeping its immersive feel and freedom of choice intact using the brand new Improvisation Engine.
Barony is a 3D first person roguelike dungeon crawler game where your goal is to descend into the depths of Devil's Bastion and fight your way through hundreds of unforgiving creatures to finally confront and kill the evil lich Baron Herx.
Legend of Grimrock is a modern take on the first-person dungeon crawler genre. Similar to Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, players progress through the game by descending further into the dungeon whilst solving puzzles and slaying enemies.
The Japan-exclusive sequel to Shadow Tower.
A first-person subterranean RPG in the tradition of Ultima Underworld, Arx Fatalis takes place in a world where the surface is no longer hospitable, and follows the story of a man who awakens there with no memory of his purpose or identity.
Descent to Undermountain is a first person RPG for the PC. It is based on the AD&D ruleset (2ed) using the Descent engine.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall from Bethesda Softworks is an enormous RPG and sequel to The Elder Scrolls: Arena. It includes a massive gameworld and pioneering freeform play. It was well received for these factors, but was criticised for a number of crippling bugs.
DeathKeep is a first-person role-playing game set in a non-specific Dungeons and Dragons setting.
A high-fantasy first-person dungeon crawler set in a persistent world where different customizable player characters in the same computer can aid each-other.
Behind the Iron Gate is a Polish FPS for the Amiga, released in 1995.
A sequel to the first-person dungeon-crawler Towers: Lord Baniff's Deceit, originally released for the Atari Falcon. It is best known as the only RPG released for the Atari Jaguar.
You are the sole survivor of a historic massacre. Now, years later, you return to the ruins of Stonekeep to vanquish the evil once more and free the trapped souls of those lost within its depths.
Set in a bleak cyberpunk universe, System Shock is a first-person action-adventure game from Looking Glass Studios that challenges players to overcome the hazards of an immense, multi-level space station under the control of an artificial intelligence with aspirations of godhood.
A first-person, action-adventure RPG developed by From Software, never released in the US, which resulted in the subsequent US releases to be misnumbered.
The sequel to Ultima Underworld saw the Avatar return to Britannia at the invitation of Lord British to help celebrate their victory over the Guardian a year before in Ultima VII. However, the Guardian has other plans and traps Britannia's elite along with the Avatar within an impregnable prison.
Abandoned Places: A Time for Heroes is a computer role-playing game for Amiga and PC/DOS in which four heroes must save their world, Kalynthia.
The spiritual successor to the prototype multiplayer maze game MIDI Maze, Faceball 2000 is a cutesy non-violent first-person shooter released for the Game Boy (and later the SNES, PC Engine, and Game Gear).
A high-fantasy first-person shooter based on the Catacomb duology of action games from id co-founder John Carmack. It is a precursor to id's Wolfenstein 3D.
A dungeon-crawler which was followed by the hit tactical RPG Shining Force.
Released in 1989, Sweet Home is quite possibly the first survival horror, or console horror RPG. A small team enters a haunted house to study the deceased owner's frescoes, only to become trapped by the angered spirits within. It inspired Resident Evil, the game that established the survival horror genre. Sweet Home can also be considered an early immersive sim.
Times of Lore is a top-down RPG that casts the player in the role of an unknown adventurer seeking fame and fortune. Starting out as a story told to children, the player will take this adventurer into a quest that will help save a kingdom.
A young boy explores a huge overworld filled with enemies and dungeons to find and rescue Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon.
Designed by Yoshio Kiya and released by Nihon Falcom in 1983, this was possibly the first action RPG. It introduced real-time combat, sci-fi elements, a persistent open world with day-night cycle, and survival mechanics. This was a precursor to Falcom's seminal action RPG franchise, Dragon Slayer.
An adventure game created by Yuji Horii and published by Enix in 1983 where the player controls a detective solving a murder mystery. The title helped establish the template for the Japanese adventure genre, which many other titles would imitate and build upon.
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