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Birthright: The Gorgon’s Alliance is a strategy role-playing game based on TSR’s Birthright world of Anuire. It combines first person dungeon and castle quests, tactical real-time graphical battles, and complex economic and diplomatic strategy. Play against challenging computer opponents or other cunning human players.
Year: 1996
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
In a world split by the countries of East in West, you, the nameless hero of the game, have to travel from town to town and from dungeon to dungeon, fighting hordes of monsters and discovering treasure, in order to face in the final battle the greatest sorcerer of the world, who was responsible for … Continue reading “Deep Dungeon IV: Kuro no Yōjutsushi”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler, Turn-based strategy
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is a 2D side-scrolling, weapon-based beat’em up game set in the Dungeons & Dragons Mystara campaign setting. The game has some slight RPG elements taken from the tabletop role-playing game. At the start of the game you can pick between 4 characters: cleric, dwarf, elf, and fighter. The game … Continue reading “Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom”
Year: 1993
Platforms: Arcade, PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler
Shadow over Mystara is a sequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom. Two years have passed since the heroes defeated Arch Lich Deimos, but now a new threat has arisen – a powerful sorceress Synn who is plotting to conquer the Republic of Darokin. Shadow over Mystara is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up with role-play elements … Continue reading “Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara”
Year: 1996
Platforms: Arcade, PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler
In the distant future, the Earth is ruled by a group of people who call themselves “The Order”. Many disasters have plagued the planet, and after many wars, misery, and death, the Order controls people’s lives and deprives them of their freedom. A rebel organization has been formed, seeking to overthrow the Order and whoever … Continue reading “Strife: Quest for the Sigil”
Year: 1996
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Action
Theme: RPG elements, Shooter
Having heard of the legend of the hero Raru, a young swordsman decides to go on a quest to also become a hero. On his way, he stops at an inn in the town of Hyuma. When he wakes up, the town is in turmoil; walls have erected on all sides, and the only way … Continue reading “Deep Dungeon III: Yūshi e no Tabi”
Year: 1988
Platforms: NES
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler, Turn-based strategy
The mines of Dejanol were once the land’s primary source of Mythinite, and a training grounds for adventurers until one day the town was overrun by demons in a surprise attack. They went as quickly as they came, the town was reclaimed by the guilds, and the mines were sealed. Now, the mines are reopened … Continue reading “Demise: Rise of the Ku’tan”
Year: 2000
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
Over fifteen hundred years ago, the dwarves built the mines and the city above them, Dejenol. After centuries of digging, a floor gave way deep in the mines, and monsters began to pour out, killing the miners. The mines were eventually sealed, and remained so for over a thousand years. Now, the city elders have … Continue reading “Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol”
Year: 1995
Platforms: Windows 3.x
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
In the year 2044 AD, world governments have fallen apart and the Earth is ruled by ruthless corporations doing anything for profit. However, rebels are fighting against corporate control all over the planet. The protagonist of the game saves the life of a stranger, sacrificing his own life in the process. Taking the protagonist to … Continue reading “CyberMage: Darklight Awakening”
Year: 1995
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Realmz is a tile-based fantasy role-playing game engine, running scenarios, which are separate stories with own collections of quests, items, NPCs etc. set in the game world. A starting set of low-skill player characters is available, but the players may opt to generate their own. This pool of characters is then shared between the scenarios, gaining … Continue reading “Realmz”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Macintosh
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy