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ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)

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4.3/5

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4.3

42 Reviews

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ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Description
ABOUT ADOM ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic and flexible combat. The GOG version adds various Deluxe features like achievements, difficulty level customization a...
Genre:
Role-playing - Adventure - Roguelike
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Fantasy, Role-playing, 2D, show 9 more... Turn-Based, Pixel Graphics, Difficult, Roguelike, Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler, CRPG, Perma Death, Tabletop
User reviews

4.3/5

( 42 Reviews )

4.3

42 Reviews

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Product details
2015, Thomas Biskup, Jochen Terstiege, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 800x600 minimum resolution, Version 9.0c, 1 GB available spac...
Time to beat
77.5 hMain
100 h Main + Sides
2000 h Completionist
326.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description

ABOUT ADOM


ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic and flexible combat. The GOG version adds various Deluxe features like achievements, difficulty level customization and various play modes (e.g. a story mode allowing to save and restore games, a weekly challenge game, an exploration mode and more). ADOM has been in development since 1994. In 2012 its development was revitalized with an immensely successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, now allowing us to offer ADOM both with ASCII and graphical modes enabling you to choose freely.

ADOM is primarily known for being the first roguelike to include vibrant towns, NPC dialog, and quests, but it offers more than just a rich story line in a complex fantasy world:
  • a huge game world with hundreds of locations such as towns, randomized dungeons, elemental temples, graveyards, ancient ruins, towers and other secrets
  • loads of races (dwarves, drakelings, mist elves, hurthlings, orcs, trolls, ratlings and many others) and even more classes (fighters, elementalists, assassins, chaos knights, duelists and much more) allowing for infinite play styles
  • hundreds of monsters and items, many with enhanced random features
  • a corruption system forcing you to balance lust for power with fear of damnation (corruptions slowly transform you into a vile monster but at the same time grant inhuman benefits - most of the time)
  • spells, prayers, mindcraft, alchemy, crafting and more
  • dozens of quests and branching story lines
  • numerous wildly different endings that might alter reality itself (simply drive Chaos away or slay a god or even become an immortal yourself, and others more)!
  • various game modes (story mode to be able to load and save games, challenge mode to face peculiar weekly challenges, exploration mode for a free wand of wishing and more)
  • various customization options (turning hunger off, turning corruption off, modifying monster difficulty or treasure rates)

ABOUT THE ANCIENT DOMAINS OF MYSTERY


Deep in the mountainous ranges of the Drakalor Chain, Chaos has broken through into Ancardia and it's up to you to decide the fate of the entire realm. You control a single character with a wildy varying set of skills, talents, spells and other abilities. Customized equipment makes each race/class combination a very different experience. Explore a mostly randomized underworld, fight monsters, loot treasures and uncover the many secrets lurking in the world of Ancardia.

Join a generation of gamers in playing a remastered version of this classic rogue-like!

With an overhaul of the graphics, music, new playable races and classes, over 400 monsters, tens of thousands of items, crafting, magic, religion, corruption, randomized dungeons and so much more, this reimagined version is one of the most in-depth roguelikes on the planet.

So, come join us as we return to Ancardia and choose your fate.

ABOUT ADOM ON GOG


ADOM on GOG takes ADOM gameplay to the next level by introducing the following features (among others):
  • 70+ achievements,
  • game customization features (e.g. turning corruption off, increasing treasure rates adjusting monster lethality),
  • ghost creation - be haunted by dead player characters and try to win their treasures,
  • story mode - save and reload your games,
  • exploration mode - use a wand of wishes to discover completely new sides of the game,
  • challenge mode - try to score highest under complex conditions in weekly challenge games,
  • shared and global highscores,
  • point-based character generation,
  • star sign selection,
  • and so much more.

    • THE FUTURE OF ADOM


    Is ADOM a complete game? Yes, a very complete game. A multitude of endings, varied approaches to game play, thousands of starting combinations and an extensive storyline filled with endless details makes for an extremely satisfying experience that justly positions ADOM as one of the big five foundational roguelike games.

    Is ADOM a finished game? No. As long as there is interest in the game we will continue to evolve and enhance it. In this respect ADOM differs from many other games on GOG in the best tradition of roguelike classics: We will continue to add both UI enhancements and new content to the core game in order to make it the most complete RPG ever. Buy once, play forever!

    ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) - (C) Copyright 1994-2018 by Thomas Biskup - All Rights Reserved

Popular achievements
It Starts Easy
Die your first death.
common  ·  31.07%
Visited Terinyo
Locate and enter the town of Terinyo.
common  ·  30.1%
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
77.5 hMain
100 h Main + Sides
2000 h Completionist
326.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Role-playing - Adventure - Roguelike
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Fantasy, Role-playing, 2D, show 9 more... Turn-Based, Pixel Graphics, Difficult, Roguelike, Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler, CRPG, Perma Death, Tabletop
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
{{'2015-11-16T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Thomas Biskup, Jochen Terstiege / Assemble Entertainment
Size:
638 MB
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Posted on: January 24, 2020

James_Perro

Verified owner

Games: 36 Reviews: 1

The best roguelike out there

I've been playing this game for 10+ years. It's deep, difficult and always unexpected. Truly the best of the genre

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Posted on: February 18, 2019

popuass

Games: 431 Reviews: 25

A must play

What is there to say? It's ADoM! It is the must-play for any RPG fan. True that it focuses on combat and survival like a true rouge-like should, but it also provides a very unique adventuring experience. Discovering new things both perilous and beneficial is what will make you love venturing into Drakalor Chain valley again and again.

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Posted on: May 17, 2021

dmitriy_bismark

Verified owner

Games: 164 Reviews: 11

A masochistic experience

Praised by nostalgizing veterans, an ASCII roguelike with a crappy facelift. Don't have a numpad? You need a guide on how to rebind keys in this game. You're a limited mobility person? Tough luck, you need to learn and use dozens of keybindings to play this game at least semi-comfortably, because mouse support is mediocre at best. Your eyes bleed from ASCII-based UI? Good news, only the main screen has a tileset, your inventory, stats and everything else is text-based. And good luck making any progress without having a wiki open at all times. I suggest you either try the free version before buying this, or at least look up full gameplay on youtube, because you can't even begin to imagine how inconvenient this game is to play just by looking at the store listing.

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Posted on: March 15, 2021

ironsidestwo

Verified owner

Games: 88 Reviews: 7

Frustrating Game

The game really lacks a PC knowledge base by this I mean even common potions/spells are unknown to the PCs, or at least the dozen or so that I played (basic healing, remove curse etc), the "towns" are basic and lack services that might help with NPCs rarely provide anything usefull, its a game that would likely benefit from fewer cursed items as well or at least an easier way to get rid of them. One to miss...

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