Akalabeth: World of Doom

Addressing the game from the modern gamer perspective. This game is a proto-crpg and there is nothing "classic" about it. You have choice of 2 classes - choose fighter if you want to suffer and don't get anywhere or choose a mage and break the game with magic amulet by turning into lizard (and vastly increasing stats) in order to make this title winnable. I don't even know if there is a way to play this game without cheesing. Before any "meaningful" choices of how are you going to approach the dungeon exploration, you're most likely going to die from hunger, wandering largely empty overworld. Cities are only text screens with items available for sale (and that is mostly food and 3 weapons maybe). Castle of Lord British is another text screen asking you to kill another random monster as part of your quest. Once you kill final monster from Lord British's selection, you are given the title of Knight and the game ends - get lost now. You can play if you are crpg historian (more like archeologist in this case), but otherwise, I beg you - respect the finite amount of time the life gives you. You're not missing anything by skipping it.

Akalabeth: World of Doom doesn't seem to capture my attention at all. I can't expect much from a game this old, and it shows. You are even better of playing browser-games these days then playing this. I guarantee that you'll get more fun out of it.

good game no comment

I remember this and Wizardry 1 on Apple II iirc. Then Roberta and Ken Williams released the original King's Quest on PCjr and PC. Kinda blew the world away. Still going to play AWOD for nostalgia kicks.

6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story average gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Akalabeth score is 1 of 5.