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The fourth in the Wizardry series of games. In this one though, you play as Werdna himself and must continue on as the weakened wizard who was defeated in the Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord game. Can you regain your powers and get your amulet back?
Is that Conan? No it's Rastan - the video game version of Conan. Join him in his heroic adventures.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the second entry in the ground-breaking Zelda franchise. This controversial follow-up ditches the original's top-down perspective for 2D side-scrolling exploration and combat. The 2D towns, dungeons and combat arenas are tied together by a top-down overworld.
Larn is a 'roguelike' where players explore procedurally generated dungeons to gain experience and enough gold to venture into the volcano to retrieve the potion that will save the protagonist's daughter's life.
The Pharoah's Tomb contains a valuable emerald and you set off to find it. Many puzzles must be solved along the way to reach the ultimate prize.
An early arcade platformer that has 100 levels. Released by Taito in 1986, it was one of the first games to feature two-player cooperative play and multiple endings.
An isometric adventure game from Rare Ltd., back when they were still called Ultimate.
This side-scrolling action RPG game for the Nintendo Famicom was only released in Japan. Developed by Sunsoft in 1986, it stars the female protagonist Lucia.
A horror-themed point-and-click adventure game that centers around the loss of a sibling and other supernatural occurrences. It was one of the original MacVenture games, along with Déjà Vu and Shadowgate.
In J.P. Winkle for MSX, players control a young dwarf who is smitten with a human princess and quests to visit the village elder for advice as well as the 13 wish-granting Bibles.
A top-down fantasy action Arcade game from the 80s in which up to four players fended off hordes of enemies while navigating treacherous mazes. Its difficulty is legendary; players can still hear the cry "Wizard needs food, badly!" in their nightmares.
A top-down dungeon crawler released for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
Isometric adventure game by Ultimate using the Filmation II engine with scrolling backgrounds.
Ultima IV is a seminal role playing game focused on the protagonist's moral journey rather than defeating a nemesis.
The third adventure in the Wizardry series sees the City of Llylgamyn rocked by a series of natural disasters. Only the descendants of the party of heroes that had saved the land before can confront the dragon, L'Kbreth, to petition it for the wisdom needed to avert them.
The very first console RPG.
The first chapter of what would become one of the defining series for PC-based RPGs, this instant classic pit a group of adventurers against the evil wizard, Werdna, in a quest for an amulet that they must retrieve for Trebor, the Mad Overlord.
Rogue is a classic ASCII-based RPG, infamous for its difficulty. It is known for spawning its own genre, called Roguelikes, and its influences can still be seen in a wide variety of other games.
Falcon's Eye is a graphic and interface update to Nethack that keeps the core game play elements the same.
A perplexing series of four click-and-point adventures for the Amiga.
An intended entry in the Gauntlet series from Backbone Entertainment and published by Eidos, for the Nintendo DS.
The first of the two games featuring Xeen, which can be combined with each other to create World of Xeen. In this, the fourth installment in the Might and Magic series, player characters explore the surface of Xeen, as well as high above it, to recover an other-worldly scepter.
A roguelike PC game developed by Linley Henzell, released in 1997 and is still being improved upon as of 2009, through the open source Stone Soup project.
A cute RPG for iOS and PC.
Online RPG for mobile and PC.
A role-playing adventure with pixelart graphics.
A fantasy visual novel.
An indie game by Shishi Studios.
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