The most popular party-based games

A party based system allows the player to create, customize and play with a party of adventurers at the beginning or during the game. The vast majority of old RPGs were party based: Ultima, Eye of the Beholder, The Magic Candle are just a few.

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The Dark Heart of Uukrul

DOS19893.9/5 Digital Studios Limited

Treasures of the Savage Frontier

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Stormfront Studios

Spirit of Adventure

DOS19914/5 Attic Entertainment Software

Dark Queen of Krynn

DOS1992protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Betrayal at Krondor

DOS1993protected4/5 Dynamix

Realms of Arkania 2: Star trail

DOS1994protected4.1/5 Attic Entertainment Software

The Magic Candle

DOS19894/5 Mindcraft Software

The Magic Candle: Volume 1 is the first chapter of a series of fantasy old school RPGs. The Magic Candle was developed and released by Mindcraft Software in 1989 for DOS but was also published for Apple II and Commodore 64. The whole Magic Candle series is very similar to some of the early Ultima games in every aspect: turn-based combat, top-down v...

Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager

DOS1994protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Hired Guns

DOS19934.1/5 DMA Design

Hired Guns is an abandoned game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1993 for DOS and Amiga platforms. Hired Guns is a sci-fi RPG in which you control four mercenaries in four individual simultaneous first person sub-screens tasked with destroying all the bad guys from a single planet.

Heroes of the Lance

DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold

Knights of Legend

DOS19894.2/5 Origin Systems

MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software

MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) released in 1990. The Zhodani Conspiracy is the first installment in the MegaTraveller series and was developed by Paragon Software.MegaTraveller 1 takes place in the Traveller universe's Third Imperium, a vast interstellar empire. The plot revolves around a c...

Return to Krondor

Windows XP/98/951998protected3.9/5 7th Level

Bloodwych

DOS19893.8/5

Bloodwych is an abandoned RPG set in the fantasy world of Trazere. Two players can play at the same time in split screen mode, a feature that was unusual at the time, especially for an RPG. Bloodwych was released in 1989 by Image Works for DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum.

Dungeon master 2: The legend of Skullkeep

DOS19954/5 FTL

Wizardry 2: The knight of diamonds

DOS19823.8/5 Sir-tech Software

Crystals of Arborea

DOS19904.2/5 Silmarils

Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard

DOS19944/5 Psygnosis

Ishar: Legend of the Fortress

DOS1992protected3.8/5 Silmarils

Ishar: Legend of the Fortress is a first-person grid-based RPG developed by Silmarils and released in 1992 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST. Ishar: Legend of the Fortress is the second game, part of the Ishar game series (the first being Crystals of Arborea). Ishar is a classic RPG like Wizardry or Might & Magic and it plays the same way, but the en...

The Magic Candle 2: The Four and Forty

DOS19913.8/5 Mindcraft Software

Yendorian Tales: Book I - Chapter 2

DOS19963.8/5 SW Games

Fountain of Dreams

DOS19904.1/5 Electronic Arts

Curse of the Azure Bonds

DOS1989protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Secret of the Silver Blades

DOSMac OS1990protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Secret of the Silver Blades is a fantasy RPG set in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons universe, developed and released by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1990 for DOS, Macintosh, Amiga and Commodore 64 systems. Secret of the Silver Blades is part of the Pool of Radiance series and uses the same "GoldBox" engine with isometric turn-based combat ...