Both games are first-person perspective role-playing games, which let you create a party and live out a solid storyline in a 3D fantasy world. Crystals of Arborea is the first part of the Ishar series, featuring characters some of you may recall from Ishar 1 and 2. The main protagonist, Jarel, and his companions must find three crystals to rediscover the flooded world of Arborea. Ishar 3, on the other hand, sees the party traveling through time, with consqeuences immediately visible in the timeline's relative present and future. Their quest - to save the world from an evil dragon's dark ambitions, before the Great Conjunction.
Personal Nightmare is a first-person perspective adventure game by Horrorsoft, also known as Adventure Soft. In this game you're placed in the shoes of a young man who left his home village some time ago, and recently received a letter inviting him to visit. Concerned about the strange form in which the letter was written, he returns to the village, only to find out his father, the local pastor, is nowhere to be found and the whole place is nothing like he remembered, with everyone acting strange, sometimes even hostile. Soon he finds out there's evil at work there and he not only has to find his father, but also proof about what is really going on in the village.
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The Pandora Directive is the fourth installment of the awesome Tex Murphy series. As can be expected from a game with such an acclaimed pedigree, you'll find an involving story which is guaranteed to keep you glued to your chair, topped with some dark humor and well-designed puzzles. Like its predecessor, this game proves that games featuring FMV sequences can boast some good acting skills, which was extremely rare in other such games of the time. This time our favorite P.I. is hired by a Gordon Fitzpatrick to find his friend, Thomas Malloy. But, as always, there is more to this case than meets the eye...