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The Legacy – Exploring

On June 14, 2020June 15, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

In my last post I had just started to seriously explore the starting level. Since then I have made some progress and noted a few things: I found a juju fetish lika a skeletal hand which when hold, protects me from being attacked by the zombies. That helped a lot […]

The Bard´s Tale – Remastered version

On October 7, 2018October 7, 2018 By Saintus

InXile recently released Bard´s Tale IV a kickstarter backed successor to the famous Bards Tale series. While it so far has received mixed reviews – where mostly original Bard´s Tale gamers feel the lack of soul from previous games and less character customization – it seems to be a game […]

Ravenloft: Strahd´s Possession – Won!

On June 14, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Last night I finally won the game. It was a race of time and of my patience. I had come to the stage where my patience dwindled and I just wanted to get the game over with. Last time I had just returned from the castle and bought the Vistrani […]

Ravenloft: Strahd´s Possession – To the bitter end

On June 13, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Ravenloft: Strahd´s Possession – To the depths of evil

On May 3, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Ravenloft: Strahd´s Possession – Promising

On April 25, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

With this post I feel things are coming together with the game. Its true self are slowly showned and the more I see the more I like it. It sure have its irksome interface but I am slowly getting used to it and it works better and better. I never […]

Ravenloft – Strahd´s Possession – Trying to like it

On April 22, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

I continued my quest in them game Strahd´s Possession. I found the village Bovaria. It turned out to be quite large with many, many houses to search. I thought I could just do them systematically but the awkward interface and the terrible graphics in fullscreen mode made it easy to […]

Revisited: Ravenloft – Strahd’s Possession

On April 19, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Review: Avadon 2 – The Corruption

On April 18, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Game reviewed: Avadon 2 – The Corruption Version: 1.0.1sCreated by: Spiderweb SoftwareReleased: 2013 Formats: Pc Difficulty: 7/10 Price: $9.49 According to Steam I have played for 83 hours. That is not entirely true if the time counts when the game has been paused for long periods tough, but it give a hint of the size of […]

Heroes of the Monkey Tavern – Review

On January 22, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Game reviewed: Heroes of the Monkey Tavern Version: 1.0.4Created by: Monkey StoriesReleased: 2016 Formats: Pc Difficulty: 5/10 Price: $9.99 The last week I have played the dungeon master clone Heroes of the Monkey Tavern. Of all the clones I have played this autumn the graphics are the most similar to Legend of Grimrock. The game is […]

Antharion – Review

On January 10, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Game reviewed: Antharion Version: 1.1.9Created by: Orphic SoftwareReleased: 2015 Formats: Pc Difficulty: 6/10 Price: $14.99 Antharion is a quite a large game if you count the vast landscape and continent and all the time you have to spend travelleling between its regions. For a long time I had no clue how far I had come into […]

Antharion – Revisited

On January 1, 2017September 4, 2018 By Saintus

I am glad to report that I have had an even flow of gaming time this autumn having played through or tested several RPG:s – including some I haven´t reported on here like Paper Sorcerer (not good enough) or the Fall of the dungeon guardians. Next game up is the partybased […]

Ruzar – The life stone – Review

On November 29, 2016September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Next dungeon crawler up is the indie game Ruzar – the life stone, a game which also pays homage to the original dungeon master. It is very similar to my last game The Deep Path: Labyrinth of Andokost (TDP:LoA) even tough there are some major changes. First off, in this […]

Ruzar – The life stone, another good dungeon crawler

On November 13, 2016September 4, 2018 By Saintus

Just after finishing the last dungeon crawler, I immediately started to looking for another in the same genre. After a brief research I came up with Ruzar – The life stone, a dungeon crawler released in 2015. The major difference on the surface is that you only control one character. […]