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Akalabeth: World of Doom
DOS1981freeware3.7/5
Akalabeth is a RPG game allegedly developed in just one summer by the Ultima franchise creator Richard Garriott. It's a dungeon crawler with wire-frame black and white graphics. Akalabeth is played in both first person 3d and top down view points.
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
DOS19813.9/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a role-playing video game that was first released in 1981. It's one of the pioneering titles in the dungeon-crawling genre and one of the first computer role-playing games (CRPGs).Developed by Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead, and published by Sir-Tech, Wizardry was initially released for the ...
Wizardry 2: The knight of diamonds
DOS19823.9/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware4.1/5 roguelike
Oubliette
DOS19833.3/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
Rescue at Rigel
DOS19833.3/5
Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress
DOS19834/5 top-down party-based RPG
The second chapter of the Ultima saga is much similar to the first one (same top down visual, same dungeon 3d visual, same gameplay), although there are many small improvements. The series begins to take the shape of the detailed, deep, rpg saga that gamers will always remember.
Wizardry 3: Legacy of Llylgamyn
DOS19833.8/5 dungeon crawl, first-person party-based RPG
DND
DOS19844.1/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
Hack
DOS1984freeware3.8/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
ICON: Quest for the Ring
DOS19843.6/5 dungeon crawl, action RPG
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac19844.2/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...
Amulet of Yendor
DOS19853.6/5 roguelike
Autoduel
DOS19853.8/5 board game, vehicular combat, action RPG
Autoduel is an abandoned top-down open world post apocalyptic RPG/driving game hybrid designed by Chuck Bueche and Richard Garriott of Ultima fame. Autoduel was developed by Origin Systems and was released in 1985 for DOS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, C64, Apple II, Macintosh, Amiga. Autoduel is based on a board game designed by Steve Jackson himself.
Cavequest
DOS19853.3/5
Telengard
DOS1985freeware3.4/5 dungeon crawl
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
DOS19853.5/5 dungeon crawl
Temple of Apshai Trilogy is a compilation of three remade abandoned (very) old school RPGs. Temple of Apshai Trilogy was developed by Epyx and released in 1985 for DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit, C64. All the games included in Temple of Apshai Trilogy are part of the Dunjonquest game series.
Ultima 3: Exodus
DOS19854.2/5 top-down party-based RPG
Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
DOS1985freeware4.1/5 sandbox RPG, top-down party-based RPG
Ultima IV is remembered as one of the best Ultima games ever released, designed as usual by Richard Garriott. Garriott took the Ultima series to a whole new level by introducing the eight virtues: honesty, compassion, valor, justice, sacrifice, honor, spirituality, humility. Ultima IV started the trilogy known as "Age of Enlightenment".
Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
Starflight
DOS19864.1/5 sandbox RPG
Starflight is a classic space exploration and role-playing video game released in 1986 by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts. It is known for its innovative gameplay, as well as its open-ended approach to space exploration and storytelling.The game is set in a massive, procedurally generated universe with thousands of star systems to e...
Tera: La Cité des Crânes
DOS19863.2/5
Adventure Construction Set
DOS19873.9/5
Adventure Construction Set is an abandoned application developed by Stuart Smith and published for DOS, Amiga, Apple II and Commodore 64 by Electronic Arts in 1987. As the name suggests, ACS is a game-building system (we're talking about adventure RPGs) that lets you edit maps, items, creatures, etc. Included with ACS is a complete game called...
Le Maitre Des Ames
DOS19873/5 first-person party-based RPG
Might and Magic Book One: Secret of the Inner Sanctum
DOS19874/5 first-person party-based RPG
Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum is a classic first-person role-playing video game (RPG) released in 1986 for DOS and other platforms. It was developed and published by New World Computing and designed by Jon Van Caneghem. This game is considered one of the pioneers of the RPG genre.
Mission: Mainframe
DOS19873.9/5 board game
Moebius
DOS19873.4/5 action RPG
NetHack
DOSWindows XP/98/95MacLinux1987freeware3.7/5 dungeon crawl, roguelike
NetHack is an open-source roguelike game that's been around since the early 1980s. It's a single-player dungeon exploration game where you navigate your character through a randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters, traps, treasures, and various items. The goal is to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, located deep within the dungeon's lowest leve...
Phantasie 1
DOS1987protected3.8/5 top-down party-based RPG
Phantasie 3: The Wrath of Nikademus
DOS19874.1/5 top-down party-based RPG