Castle of the Winds
Castle of the Winds (1993, by Saadasoft) is a perfect example of an atypical roguelike (no ASCII, runs in Windows) turned into a liberated game. Surprisingly Castle of the Winds is still very playable to this day, if you can make it run under a recent version of Windows.
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Downloads for Castle of the Winds
Trouble running this game? Check out the F.A.Q.
You will probably need a Virtual Machine to run the game. Screenshots
Screenshots were taken by Abandonware DOS.
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Facts, trivia and collector's notes are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. These texts use material from this Wikipedia article.
The game is composed of two parts: A Question of Vengeance, released as shareware, and Lifthransir's Bane, sold commercially. A combined license for both parts was also sold.
In 1998, the game's author, Rick Saada, decided to distribute the entirety of Castle of the Winds free of charge.
As a 16 bit application, the program will not run natively under 64 bit versions of the Windows operating system.
players: single player
input: keyboard, mouse
distribution: 3,5 floppy disk
graphics: VGA
Abandonware DOS popularity: above average
Comments
- #1 - 15.09.2016 19:40 omgfailsauceI cannot count how many of my childhood hours were dumped into this game. It's one of those genres that I feel were broken by the advancement of gaming.
- #2 - 08.08.2017 04:31 Lord DragonLoved this classic.
Spent lots of hours playing this game between tech phone calls in my office.
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