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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

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4.6/5

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4.6

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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Description
An Industrial Revolution in a World of Magick Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwa...
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4.6

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Product details
2001, Troika Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c...
Time to beat
31 hMain
44 h Main + Sides
84 h Completionist
44.5 h All Styles
Description

An Industrial Revolution in a World of Magick


Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarves, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike. A place of Ancient runes and steamworks, of magick and machines, of sorcery and science. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.

 

Character Design allows you to customize your character any way you choose

  • Whether you choose magick or technology, the Arcanum world adapts and responds to your character's development 
  • Classless, point-based attribute system allows for limitless creativity in guiding your character's development 
  • 8 basic stats, such as Strength and Charisma 
  • More than a dozen derived stats, from Poison Resistance to Character Speed 
  • 16 Primary skills, including Gambling and Healing 
  • 80 Spells with 16 Colleges of Magick 
  • 56 technological degrees within 8 disciplines

 

Extraordinary Adventure Features
 

  • Explore a world as vast as it is mysterious-it would take over 30 real-time hours to traverse the land of Arcanum 
  • Meet more than 300 unique characters and monster types across this huge land 
  • Many means exist to solve the myriad quests, from dueling to discourse to thievery 
  • Take on a band of ogres in real-time, or plan your strategy through turn-based combat - you decide 
  • Accurate day and night cycles affect the gameplay, from combat to thieving skills 
  • Automatic character management lets action-oriented players delve into the quest at hand 
  • Create your own worlds or play the included multiplayer scenario online cooperatively or competively

© 2001 Activision Publishing, Inc. Arcanum and Activision are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.

Goodies
manual (190 pages) artworks HD wallpapers map reference card avatars
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:

ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY

ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY

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
31 hMain
44 h Main + Sides
84 h Completionist
44.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2001-08-22T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
1.1 GB

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Languages
English
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What improvements we made to this game:
Update (13 November 2024)
  • Applied DDrawCompat for seamless support with modern displays
  • Set core affinity to 1 CPU core, improving performance on modern systems.
  • Fixed Alt-Tabbing leading to black screen
  • Validated stability
  • Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
Internal Update (05 October 2018)
  • Improved compatibility with newer systems
Internal Update (30 March 2018)
  • Updated internal installer structure, no changes to game files
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Posted on: December 14, 2024

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Games: 72 Reviews: 5

Underrated Masterpiece

I wish, I wish they did a sequel or remaster of this game.


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Posted on: December 15, 2024

TownFunk

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Games: 139 Reviews: 1

Classic Masterpiece

A Classic Masterpiece full of quirks and difficult learning curve. One of the best soundtracks of all time, and a wonderful world to experience and explore. The charming graphics and style of world building will keep you engaged for years!


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Posted on: December 30, 2024

viine

Verified owner

Games: 58 Reviews: 6

Good game but has glaring flaws

MUSIC: the game is great. i dont care for the music despite everyone loving it but hell youll probably like love it since it is well made. COMBAT AND BALANCE: the combat is enjoyable in how jank it is. that sounds bad but being able to be bodied whilst also having the power to turn the odds just as quickly is fun in a realistic ways most CRPGs arent able to do. violence in real life is unpredicatable and can very easily turn on the person winning just as often as a fight goes as expected. STORY AND CHARACTERS: the story is good if you give it time and dont put your expectations too high and dont believe the people trying to make it sound way more deeper than it is (including the dev with a yt channel). this is one of the few games along with F:NV and planescape to actually have good likeable companions even if theres a lot of them who are nothing like in F1 but the standouts are amazing ROLE PLAYING AND BALANCE: the ability for roleplaying is lesser than in other good crpgs due to the main quest arbitrarily locking you out of certain areas for no reason and many areas being places youll only visit once or twice at most. one of the most damning things for roleplaying however is the even more arbitrary decisions for what skills assign to what stats. a Thief will have to basically have to wait until around level 20 until they come into being a proper thief where as a fighter is set to go about level 6 due to fighting having only 2 stats, 2 skills which matter, Constituion & Strength, melee & dodge where as a thief needs Perception & Dexterity, Prowling, Pickpocketing and Picklocks. id recommened only to those who are interested in unique games. this game will likely never get a sequel and honestly if they did the returning devs would probably make it insufferable


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Posted on: January 23, 2025

travishawk12

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Games: 191 Reviews: 2

Perfect game, highly underrated

I have always enjoyed this game, since its release. I played with my cousin Michael (well, he showed me it) and it was a great bond before he OD'd. I miss him and playing this great game makes me feel connected to him while having fun. I hit cool moments on my own and will turn to almost say something to him. Its been 8 years but feels like yesterday.


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Posted on: February 21, 2025

ghim987

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Games: 39 Reviews: 2

god tier game

fallout 2 in semi medevil times with steam engines and magic and fun for hours


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