OMG It's the spiritual successor to Chaos on the ZX Spectrum

[Mharr]

And it only took 36 years to get a good one!

[PhilStormBorn]

Never played Chaos but Lords of Chaos was one of my all time favourite games. Enjoying Rift Wizard and I'd love to see a sequel take a similar Wizard v Wizard turn.

[Mharr]

Chaos was a turn based wizard deathmatch on a tiny (15x10) blank grid, a fraction of 1% of Rift Wizard, but the icon style was almost identical and everything about this title is a love letter to early eight bit computers. It *has* to be part of the inspiration.

I missed out on the sequel, do you know which platform had the most complete version?

[PhilStormBorn]

There is a version on https://classicreload.com/amiga-lords-of-chaos.html but you'd have to be very patient to get anywhere with it. Especially if you hadn't played before. Maybe google a manual?

The UI made sense on a disk based OS but not so much anymore. The wonderful thing about it was the wizard designer. You just spent points, so you had a totally custom wizard straight off. There was equipment and components scattered on the map. So in a 1v1 my friend might go all cheap combat summons and I could put invisible pixies on unicorns who then found swords and made bomb potions and became my assassin army. Or ignore spells, spend points on physical buffs, find a sword and be a warrior. It was so flexible it completely side stepped balance because you could both do the same stuff.

[Mharr]

Amiga huh? You know I've been looking for an excuse to put a MiSTer system together...

Oh, also I just ran into this almost unknown project that appears to be a well received LoC remake. Dunno if the Minecraft aesthetic spoils it for you.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/385060/The_Last_Warlock/