Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny

Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny is an old fantasy rpg game, developed by Attic Entertainment Software and released by Fantasy Productions Verlags in 1992. Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny is currently NOT abandonware and runs on DOS. Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny was first-person party-based RPG. Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny is also part of the Realms of Arkania series.

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NOT abandonware (why?)

Genres:

rpg, first-person party-based RPG, sandbox RPG

system:

DOS

released in:

1992

publisher:

Fantasy Productions Verlags

developer:

Attic Entertainment Software

keywords:

fantasy, class-based, auto mapping, party-based, false 3D

Modes:

single-player

series:

part of the Realms of Arkania series

Downloads for Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny

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Manual Walkthrough

Trouble running this game? Check out the F.A.Q.

Video

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Additional info

Input: keyboard, mouse

Distributed on: 3,5 floppy disk, 5,25 floppy disk, cd-rom

Graphics: VGA

Sound cards supported: Adlib, PC speaker, Roland, Sound Blaster, Pro Audio Spectrum, Thunderboard

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Comments

Gerwin - 17/09/2017 09:39
Attic Entertainment did a splendid job transferring the game system from its p&p origins to the computer. That however means that the Northland trilogy features several game mechanics that are rather unique and obscure to "normal" players. The developers often stated that these games were made by fans for fans. Being familiar with the p&p ruleset helps tremendously but is by no means required to enjoy the games.

Unfortunately, Sir-Tech did a lackluster job with the English localisation and introduced many bugs that did not exist in the German original. If possible you should choose the German CD-ROM relase over the English one.
LordBucket - 13/05/2017 11:40
Classic example of a failed conversion from a pen and paper system to a computer game. Realms of Arkania is pretty and it presents well, but it's full of mechanics that should never have been put in a computer game. It has some great concepts, it looks great, making chracters is fun...but the final delivery is poor and the game part of the game kind of fails.

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