I am so happy to see this on steam. I got it as a birthday present many years ago, and played for countless hours, but never quite beat it. Always ran out of time. Pretty good story, but it's mostly the nostalgia factor for me.

It's an open world RPG game with a great plot, but with an uncommon interface. After you are familiiar with the interface, the gameplay is fantastic. It's an underated gem. If you liked games such as Ultima VI, you will like this one too. The game has it's funny moments, with references to other games. You can even encounter the Avatar (the protagonist of the Ultima's series) as one NPC. Yes, humour predominates on the dialogues, contributing for an agreable experience. However, i suppose the game was launched before it was fully tested, because it has some annoing bugs, the more relevant is the sudden acceleration of the mouse sensivity. Nothing so important that stops you from playing and having fun with the game, though.
The game has a great soundtrack, that deserves to be listen with maximum quality. For that, i recommend you to configure DOSBox to function with Munt emulator and setup the game for using the Roland MT-32. There are various tutorials explaining how to do that in youtube, if you don't know it. Don't worry, though, the game defaults to soundblaster, which not being optimal, allows you to hearing music and sound the same.
Out of curiosity, you can watch my longplay videos on the community section, as i played with the best config.
8/10

LOVE this game. Reminiscent of KQ or Q4G.
May I, in a completely non PC way, suggest suggest Millenials and curmudgeons need not apply unless they have more than one brain cell and imaginative potential.

I'm not a fan of RPG games where everything you find is predetermind, make a mistake and you might as well start all over again or load a save (if you remembered to save that is). I'm also not a fan of RPG games that have a time limit either.

1st time I ran the game it got stuck at character creation (never a good sign). Second time the mouse didn't work, keyboard only, and finally the third time the mouse actually worked for everthing. I never actually got the manual character creation to work (game tends to hang forever), just quick.

Back in 1992 they didn't have a need for mini-maps, you just wandered around until you found something and often times wandered around in the same area over and over and over trying to figure out where the hell to go next...

When you're playing, nothing indicates that you need to rest, and if it does, I didn't see it. I kept getting stuck on walls trying to go up stairs (found this feature extremely annoying). Back then they didn't have hot bars, so everything is menu driven. For instance if you click on the shield icon, you have 8 other options, which in turn might take you to some other options and so forth.

I should also mention that the Steam overlay doesn't work for this game. So it's either full screen or window (dos box). Although if you run it in window mode, you still have to go click the disk icon, click quit, click yes, to get out and then it takes you to a ad for other games, must remember to hit esc to get out of that.

You've got to be kidding me, 7 bucks for a game that's 20 something years old??!! Games from that time can be downloaded for free. Well greed never stops. At the time of this review it was on sale for a buck, it's not even worth that, I'm sure back in 1992 it was $40, but today in 2015, it should be free.

I'm not sure from where this game came from or how it got into my library (probably a bundled game), but the best thing I did was uninstall it.

Tags: Isometric RPG - Topdown RPG
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Dosbox era. Faux Ultima with high learning curve and rock bottom audiovisual presentation. For nostalgia purposes only.

Hard pass.

Okay the reason I gave this game a thumbs down is because I have no nostalgia connected to this game whatsoever so please if you have nostalgia of this game understand that i am playing this in 2015.

This game does not hold up today at all. The pixel art is disgusting and its all so bright it looks like a 3 year old ate a box of crayons and threw up all over the software. The music must be so good only people with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sonar can hear it because I certainly can't hear it (there is no damn music). Every text box takes the Mayan calenders equivalant amount of time to read because there is so much text in one conversation. This game is bland, unrewarding and overall takes up more time then it should.

I r8 1 commodore64 out of 10

It´s like one of the older Ultima Games (Ultima VI fits most to this game).

It´s pretty old but if you loved Ultima V or VI and want more this is another good old Title to play.

Newer Generations of Players probably find this too old and uncomfortable. There is way more to explore for this price.

But since i vie this game from a Retro Perspective there is nothing wrong with it. DOS, CD Version with Speech. It´s the best version of the game.

MicroProse <3 NightDive