Adventure
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In the 21st century, mankind is being ravaged by the greenhouse effect. A last-ditch effort to counteract it is designed and executed. It works far too well. Centuries if not millennia later, the planet is entirely covered in a thick, opaque cloud layer. Giant wolf packs roam the frozen wastes, and the mammoth has re-emerged from the elephant stock. Mankind ekes out a living in a few handfuls of settlements, connected by a network of massive armored trains.
RATING (7-10)
The player assumes the role of a young Arthur, before the legendary days of Camelot. The "sword in the stone" (which in the legends was not Excalibur, but is often confused with Excalibur by people unfamiliar with the legends) that would signify Arthur's destiny to rule, has been stolen by the evil King Lot.
RATING (6-10)
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In the Bermuda Project you play the part of Bill Benson, a top reporter for the New York Star and Herald on three months special leave to investigate a spate of disappearances within the infamous Triangle. It has never been far from the front page since a flight of American Naval planes vanished without a trace in 1945. Many planes and ships have gone missing. Each time the complete absence of bodies or wreckage has fueled speculation of everything from instant mini-hurricanes to extra-terrestrial intervention.
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The player character is a young assistant pig-keeper named Taran, who undertakes a quest to stop the evil Horned King, who seeks for Hen Wen, the magical pig of the wizard Dallben, for her visionary abilities. With these abilities, the Horned King would be able to discover the Black Cauldron and rule the land.
RATING (7-10)
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The titular character of the game is a 1980s video game designer, Bob Morlock, who had picked "Captain Blood" as a nickname in tribute to the film starring Errol Flynn of the same name. Morlock develops a new video game about aliens and space travel. While testing for the first time his new project, he becomes warped inside the spaceship of the very game he had designed. Soon after, Blood is forced to go into hyperspace
mode and, due to an incident, gets accidentally cloned 30 times. For 800 years, Blood tracks down every clone, as each one took a portion of his vital fluid. When the game begins, Blood has successfully disintegrated 25 clones, but he needs to kill the last five clones who turned out to be the most difficult to track down or he will lose his last connection with the human species.
RATING (6-10)
Castle Kingdoms is an Action game, developed and published by Mobile Amusements, which was released in Europe in 1997.
RATING (7-10)
1988, the year Chrono Quest was released on Amiga, as well as Atari ST. Made by SARL Infomedia and published by Psygnosis Limited, this adventure game is available for free on this page.
RATING (7-10)
The game is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the role of Raoul Dusentier, a French police inspector invited to spend some time on Niklos Karaboudjan's boat. Quickly after arriving, Karaboudjan is murdered, and the investigation begins.
RATING (7-10)
The player character is commanded with an icon based control bar that is accessible by pressing the right mouse button, which also pauses the game. The control bar features seven main actions: inventory pick up/take, manipulate/use (opening up a sub-menu with eight further actions: unlock, insert, push/pull eat, wear, throw, give and combine), look, talk (only either "Help!" or "Hi!"), attack, and jump.
RATING (7-10)
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The player has three real time hours within which they must complete the game, which is the equivalent of three in-game days. Time can also be passed by using the in-game wait function, and the time can be checked by looking at Dawson's watch, or by inspecting the grandfather clock in the house. At the end of each day, Dawson goes to sleep and upon going to bed, each night he has a nightmare of the Dark World. Dawson automatically goes to sleep at ten P.M. each night, regardless of where the player is. If it becomes night while Dawson is in the Dark World, he will fall asleep and die, resulting in a game over.
RATING (8-10)
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Fatal Heritage is a video game published in 1990 on Amiga by Delta Konzept GmbH. It's an adventure game set in a puzzle elements theme.
RATING (6-10)
The player character is not given a name throughout the game. The game cursor identifies him only as "hero". He is standing on an electric elevator platform attached to the exterior of the building when "Ed the boss" opens a window to reprimand him for slacking by banging his fist against the window ledge and shouting. The player then can enter the building and, while playing a prank on Ed, he discovers a secret passage
leading to a machine room. There he acquires some documents in an alien language which he keeps in the inventory.
RATING (8-10)
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It Came From the Desert utilizes different gameplay types, a hallmark of Cinemaware games. An "adventure" mode provides the overall structure and advances the plot. A main "action" mode is used to combat and defeat the ants. A collection of minigames cover special aspects of the narrative.
RATING (7-10)
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The game is set in the summer of 1991. The protagonist, Captain Maksim Mikahilovich Rukov, recently transferred to the Department P from the GRU after three years' duty, is ordered to investigate possible corruption inside the KGB after a former agent turned private eye was found murdered. However, as the plot progresses, Rukov finds himself investigating a political plot of dangerous proportions.
RATING (8-10)
Picking up immediately where King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human left off, as King Graham tosses his children his adventure's cap, he suffers a massive heart attack and is left on his death bed. The devastated Princess Rosella is contacted via the Magic Mirror by the good fairy Genesta in the faraway land of Tamir who reveals the existence of a magic fruit that can heal King Graham in exchange for Rosella helping Genesta. Rosella agrees and is teleported to the fairy kingdom of Tamir. The realm's ruler, Queen Genesta, reveals that her archenemy, the evil fairy Lolotte, has stolen her talisman without which Genesta will die in twenty-four hours. Additionally, without the talisman, Genesta lacks the power to return Rosella to Daventry. Rosella agrees to undertake a quest for both the talisman and the magic fruit and goes out undercover, dressed
as a peasant girl.
RATING (7-10)
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The gameplay was split between a traditional adventure setting, where a player could interact with "real world" inhabitants within Chiba City, and a 3D grid representation of cyberspace once he'd managed to regain access. Different "real world" locations led to different grid sectors, thus developing the plot and enriching the immersion.
RATING (7-10)
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Omicron Conspiracy is a game in which a graphic adventure stars Ace Powers, Intergalactic Star Policeman Extraordinaire.
RATING (6-10)
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The game starts when the producer notices that the film has been stolen by Bela Lugosi's double. The player must carry out an epic search of the locations where Plan 9 from Outer Space was filmed to find the six missing reels.
RATING (7-10)
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Robinson's Requiem is a survival simulation game, similar to Wilderness: A Survival Adventure and UnReal World, that takes place from a first-person perspective where players assume the role of Robinson officer Trepliev 1 from the Alien World Exploration department in his attempt to escape from the prison planet Zarathustra alongside another AWE Robinson named Nina1 as the main objective, while facing several hostile creatures and dangers in order to survive the planet's hostile alien environment long enough.
RATING (6-10)
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Space Ace is composed of numerous individual scenes, which require the player to move the joystick in the right direction or press the fire button at the right moment to overcome the various hazards Dexter/Ace faces. Space Ace introduced a few gameplay enhancements, most notably selectable skill levels and multiple paths through several of the scenes. At the start of the game, the player could select one of three skill levels: "Cadet", "Captain" or "Space Ace" for easy, medium and hard respectively
RATING (6-10)
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The Godfather is a side scrolling shooter with occasional first-person shooter sequences. The object of the game consists of getting to the end of the levels while shooting enemy gangsters on the street. The player must be careful not to hit any innocent people, or the game will end. At the end of every level, there is a boss, as well as brief mini games which must be completed to proceed in the game. The last level consists of taking down an enemy helicopter while protecting Michael Corleone.
RATING (7-10)
The player can choose a progenerated character, but otherwise must first create a character, choosing gender economic class, occupation, age, skills, and nationality (English or American). As reviewer John Scott noted these all have an influence on the game. For example, a woman character will be refused service in a pub in keeping with English alcohol laws of the 1920s, and a character with military service in World War I
will be more prone to mental disabilities that are exacerbated by dabbling with the dark forces at work in the game.
RATING (7-10)
The player can choose a progenerated character, but otherwise must first create a character, choosing gender economic class, occupation, age, skills, and nationality (English or American). As reviewer John Scott noted these all have an influence on the game. For example, a woman character will be refused service in a pub in keeping with English alcohol laws of the 1920s, and a character with military service in World War will be more prone to mental disabilities that are exacerbated by dabbling with the dark forces at work in the game
RATING (7-10)
Twilight Zone is a good game in the same vein as Mike Berlyn's Altered Destiny: a hapless hero gets sucked into an alien world where he must find a way back home and saves that world in the process. Good puzzles, reasonably intelligent parser, and engaging plot make this an underrated game. An all-text mode is also available for IF purists.
RATING (7-10)
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The player takes role of a 16-year-old Boris Verne, who is taken to a parallel universe from the present time when playing around with his eccentric uncle George's newest invention, which he called the Virtual Dimension Inducer. Boris finds himself in an alternate dimension called Pararela, being at the centre of a prophecy that says that he is the Saviour that will end the reign of the mad tyrant King Emperor Neiamises of the Mekelien Empire, who possesses god-like powers and is bent on conquest of the whole galaxy. Throughout the game Boris encounters allies and enemies on a variety of worlds, installations and starships on his quest to bring peace to the universe.
RATING (8-10)
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The game starts where the novella ends, with Steve lying on the operating table and slipping into the dream world. Steve is controlled by the player through numerous surreal worlds. He can collect certain weapons and items on these levels, but with a few exceptions, cannot carry them to another level. Steve has no health meter, but there is a heart rate monitor, which goes from 75bpm (normal) to 100bpm (in frightening situations) to 170bpm (shortly before death). He immediately dies if he comes into contact with an enemy or an obstacle. He can also die if he remains too long in certain areas such as the Country Garden, where a lawnmower will come and decimate him. When Steve dies, the game returns to the scene in the operating room where the surgeons attempt to save him. There are no save points in the game and instead of score points the player's progress is stated as a percentage and a time counter.
RATING (7-10)
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