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After having brought peace to Britannia during his previous journey there, the Avatar returns to our world. However, he is haunted by ghostly dreams that warn him of great danger in Britannia. The Avatar decides to travel there once again. Upon his arrival, he witnesses the kidnapping of Baron Almric’s daughter. Found guilty of the … Continue reading “Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS, FM Towns, PC-98, PlayStation, Windows, Windows Mobile
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler
For the last time, the Avatar is being summoned to free Britannia from Guardian’s curse. The eight Shrines of Virtues, the pride of Britannia, have been all desecrated by this evil and mysterious creature. The glyphs which protected them have been taken, and put into huge columns the Guardian built in Britannia, with their entrances … Continue reading “Ultima IX: Ascension”
Year: 1999
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: RPG elements
Ultima VIII: Pagan begins where Ultima VII: Part Two – Serpent Isle ended. The Guardian banishes the Avatar to the land of Pagan, a world under his control. Stranded in this unknown land, without his companions to help him, the Avatar’s goal is to find a way back to Britannia. He has to confront four … Continue reading “Ultima VIII: Pagan”
Year: 1994
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue is an add-on disk to Ultima VII: The Black Gate that adds new areas and quests to the game. Once the disk is installed and a previous game is loaded (or a new one begun), an earthquake shakes Britannia, signalling the rising of the Isle of Fire from the oceans. … Continue reading “Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS
Genre: DLC / add-on, Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy
The Avatar sees a strange message on his computer screen. An unknown being who calls himself the Guardian claims that Britannia has entered a true age of enlightenment, and soon everyone, including the Avatar himself, shall bow before the new lord. At this moment, a moongate materializes, and the Avatar steps through it into Britannia. … Continue reading “Ultima VII: The Black Gate”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy
The Silver Seed is an add-on disk for Ultima VII: Part Two – Serpent Isle. It adds a new scenario with five quests, in which the player has to go back in time to find the silver seed which would heal the lands. In order to fit in with the original story line, these quests … Continue reading “Ultima VII: Part Two – The Silver Seed”
Year: 1993
Platforms: DOS
Genre: DLC / add-on
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy
The events of the game take place eighteen months after those described in Ultima VII: The Black Gate. Batlin, the leader of the Fellowship has disappeared, as well as Iolo’s wife Gwenno. A map is found that points to the Serpent Isle where the Guardian is still planning to destroy Britannia. Lord British sends the … Continue reading “Ultima VII: Part Two – Serpent Isle”
Year: 1993
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy
Several years after having restored Lord British to his rightful position as the monarch of Britannia, the Avatar is captured by demon-like creatures and placed on a sacrificial altar. His friends Iolo, Shamino and Dupre appear just in time to save him. In the Britannia castle, the Avatar learns that his abductors were gargoyles, a … Continue reading “Ultima VI: The False Prophet”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, FM Towns, PC-98, SNES, Sharp X68000, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
The Avatar, the embodiment of the Eight Virtues and the hero of Britannia, is called back to deal with a grave threat. Lord British, the country’s benevolent monarch, has disappeared, and a man named Blackthorn has usurped his throne. The tyrant rules the land by enforcing the virtues upon the will of the people, corrupting … Continue reading “Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 128, Commodore 64, DOS, FM Towns, PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X68000, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Following the defeat of the evil triad in the previous three Ultima games, the world of Sosaria changed beyond recognition: continents rose and sank, and new cities were built, heralding the advent of a different civilization. Unified by the reign of the benevolent monarch Lord British, the new world was renamed Britannia. Lord British wished … Continue reading “Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar”
Year: 1985
Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, FM Towns, FM-7, MSX, Macintosh, NES, PC-88, PC-98, SEGA Master System, Sharp X1, Sharp X68000, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy