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Dog Star Adventure is a text adventure game inspired by Star Wars. In the commercial TRS-80 release all references to Star Wars have been changed. Princess Leia has changed to Leya, Darth Vader to General Doom, Stormtroopers to Roche Soldiers, the Rebel Alliance to Forces of Freedom, etc. In the Commodore PET conversion, most (but not … Continue reading “Death Planet: The Dog Star Adventure”
Year: 1979
Platforms: Commodore PET/CBM, TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
An interactive text adventure that finds you on an island near an abandoned house. The goal is to collect seven different treasures and then deposit them in the safe or prescribed area. You can read my review and experience with Burial Ground Adventure HERE
Year: 1979
Platforms: TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
The sequel to Dungeon Campaign takes graphical role-playing games on a very early foray to the great outdoors, with extra enhancements and added game mechanics inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Wilderness Campaign is another turn-based affair set in a fantasy world, this time starring a party of adventurers on a mission to save the once-prosperous realm of Draconia from … Continue reading “Wilderness Campaign”
Year: 1979
Platforms: Apple II
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Rudy is a fifteen-year-old orphan who discovers that he has been endowed with the ability of using powerful forbidden weapons called ARMs (Ancient Relic Machines); forced to use an ARMs technique when fighting a demon, he is cast out of his home village. Jack is a treasure hunter who is seeking for an ancient device … Continue reading “Wild Arms”
Year: 2020
Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
In Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee Abe shut down RuptureFarms and saved his buddies from becoming snacks. But Rupture farms was just the beginning; the Glukkons are digging up bones at the ancient Mudokon burial grounds. They use the bones to make Soul Storm Brew. Abe must travel to the Soul Storm Brewery, stop those corporate villains and save … Continue reading “Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus”
Year: 1998
Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Windows
Theme: Platform
Story-wise, this title isn’t really a sequel to Alundra. The hero of this game is the red-haired Flint, whose parents were killed by pirates. Flint engages himself on a journey to avenge his parents, but soon discovers that there is a bigger conspiracy – the evil Mephisto wants to turn all people into robots by putting … Continue reading “Alundra 2: A New Legend Begins”
Year: 2000
Platforms: PlayStation
Genre: Action
Theme: Action RPG, Puzzle elements
Alundra is a boy who can step into other people’s dreams. His own dreams tell him to go to the village Inoa. The ship on which Alundra is coming to the village goes down, but Alundra himself is washed up on a beach near the village. There, a blacksmith Jess takes care of him and … Continue reading “Alundra”
Year: 1997
Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3
Genre: Action
Theme: Action RPG, Puzzle elements
Stardew Valley is an RPG inspired by the Harvest Moon games where you play as the inheritor of an old farm in a small town called Stardew Valley. Leaving the taxing big city life behind, you embark upon a quest to restore the neglected tract through dedication and hard work. The gameplay consists of keeping the plot of … Continue reading “Stardew Valley”
Year: 2016
Platforms: Android, Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG), Simulation
The StoryA dangerous global pandemic reshaped the world into a place with zombie-like disease-ridden creatures. What caused the pandemic, noone knows, but Deacon St. John, the protagonist, lost his wife because of it. A couple of years have passed and people are far fewer than the infected. While the infected do share human-eating habits with … Continue reading “Days Gone”
Year: 2019
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genre: Action
Theme: Survival horror
Gears tactics is the fast paced, turn-based strategy game. The game is full of action battles requiring skillfully using your customizable squad to take control of the battlefield. The action of the game is set around 12 years before the events from the first Gears of War, as the Locust army rises from the underground … Continue reading “Gears Tactics”
Year: 2020
Platforms: Xbox Series X
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Shooter, Turn-based strategy