The most popular fantasy games

Dwarves and elves, trolls and gnolls, dragons and wyverns, arcane magic, ancient deities, sword and sorcery! It's not just medieval, it's a soup of imagination and reality in equal parts, mixed in a bubbling cauldron, ready to be served in your favourite old tavern.

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Below The Root

DOS1984 Dale Disharoon, Inc.

Based on a book series almost nobody remembers, Below The Root drops you into a serene world of treehouses, talking children, and deeply philosophical moral choices. Combat does not exist. Instead, you explore, read minds, and try...

Telengard

DOS1985freeware Avalon Hill

Telengard is one of the earliest computer role-playing games, released in 1982 for various home computers like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and TRS-80 and later for PC. It was developed by Daniel Lawrence and was heavily inspired b...

Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of fate

DOSMac OS1993protecteddemo Westwood Studios

The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate is the second installment in the Legend of Kyrandia point and click adventure game series developed by Westwood Studios. It was released in 1993 as a sequel to The Legend of Kyrandia.The game's...

The Immortal

DOS1991protected Sandcastle

The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS1986 Beam Software

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

DOS1989 Infocom

With Zork Zero, Infocom decided to throw everything into the cauldron: graphics, mouse support, and a jester who won’t shut up. A prequel to the original trilogy, it’s stuffed with puzzles, jokes, and deeply Zorkian no...

Gateway to the Savage Frontier

DOS1991protected Stormfront Studios

Gateway to the Savage Frontier is a Dungeons & Dragons computer role-playing game released in 1991. It was developed by Beyond Software (later known as Stormfront Studios) and published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) as ...

Avalon

DOS1998freeware MiG Outpost

In Avalon (1998, DOS), you are a wizard, possibly a hero, definitely confused. This fantasy RPG drops you into a world of magic, mayhem, and menu navigation straight out of a Tolkien-themed tax return. The graphics aim for epic an...

Ambush at Sorinor

DOS1993 Mindcraft Software

In Ambush at Sorinor, tactics meet fantasy in a land where ambushing people is apparently the national sport. You’re a mercenary commander picking the right team to win missions and not get horribly skewered. Battles play ou...

Spirit of Adventure

DOS1991 Attic Entertainment Software

DND

DOS1984

Witchaven

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected Capstone Software

Witchaven is an abandoned fantasy first-person shooter (or "slasher", since you'll wield melee weapons) developed by Capstone and released by IntraCorp in 1995 for DOS and Windows. Witchaven includes RPG elements such as experienc...

Legacy of the Ancients

DOS1989 Quest Software

Amberstar

DOS1992 Thalion

Amberstar is a fantasy old school RPG very similar to Ultima 6 that uses a top-down view for interiors and small locations and a first person pseudo 3D view for everything else. Unfortunately, the sequel (called Ambermoon) was ava...

Worlds of Legend: Son of the Empire

DOS1993

Inner Worlds

DOSLinux1996 Sleepless Software

Gauntlet 2

DOS1989 Atari

Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk

DOS1993 Codemasters

Champions of Krynn

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Champions of Krynn is a RPG released in 1990 by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) and is the first game in the Dragonlance Gold Box series. It is based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ruleset and set in the world of Krynn, ...

Keys to Maramon

DOS1990 Mindcraft Software

Keys to Maramon is a role-playing game developed by Mindcraft Software and released in 1990 for the Amiga, MS-DOS, and Commodore 64 platforms. The game is set in the same universe as the "Magic Candle" series, another popular RPG ...

Ultima 9: Ascension

Windows XP/98/951999protected Origin Systems

Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected BioWare

If Baldur’s Gate was a sprawling epic, Shadows of Amn is the Shakespearean sequel with better everything: graphics, writing, drama. Your soul is stolen (again), your allies are weirder, and your enemies wear more eyeliner. T...

Blood & Magic

DOS1996 Tachyon Studios

From the people who brought you Dungeons & Dragons, here's Blood & Magic (1996), the RTS that nobody remembers but definitely deserves a second glance. You summon golems from magical “blood forges” because appa...