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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.

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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: June 13, 2014

Cinlef

Verified owner

Games: 256 Reviews: 13

A step or two below greatness

A unique settling a well-written and interesting story this games biggest flaw is that it's pacing is badly skewed, with certain early dungeons that are extremely long and difficult and very low level caps throw off the whole balance of the game, since despite an interesting character progression system it is very easy to have maxed out a character less than 1/2 way through the plot. Worth a purchase nonetheless.


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Posted on: December 9, 2015

ElToro13

Verified owner

Games: 120 Reviews: 1

Great game but beware of newer OS

I enjoyed this game for the 8 hours I was able to put into it. The setting is really interesting and the dialogue is well thought out. Unfortunately the game runs terribly on Windows 10 and needs to be restarted every 10 minutes or it slows to a crawl. I have tried every possible suggestion and the game simply doesn't run very smoothly on anything past Windows 7. If you can play it on a virtual machine or an older OS this game is great however. Hopefully a patch can fix the issues, but I can't give it 5 stars seeing that most people will see issues.


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Posted on: December 20, 2015

White_Harbor

Verified owner

Games: 273 Reviews: 1

Please add the Russian language!

a large community of players waiting for it.


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Posted on: August 20, 2016

MistaKill

Verified owner

Games: 289 Reviews: 2

Great magic-punk rpg

Made by some of the names behind fallout 1 + 2, need I say more? It has it's problems, but the story, setting and gameplay are fantastic. The main quest tree gives you a distant goal to focus on while side quests and party members entertain along the way. Set in a relatively unique steam-meets-magic punk setting that really pushed my buttons (I'm more sci-fi than fantasy). Combat is a little clunky and full of random misses early game, but it gets better and a little more varied as you go along. Not just clouded in nostalgia either, I installed it a couple of months ago and I'm slowly making my way through the campaign again. While it is a bit raw in comparison to modern rpgs, it still holds it's own against newer, younger models.


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Posted on: July 25, 2017

SharpeThe1st

Verified owner

Games: 224 Reviews: 8

Really good old game

Guys,this game is EPIC and it deserves to be played. Please don't compare this with IWD or BG or even Diablo,This game is totally different league,yes game is full of bugs but you know what...tell me what game is perfect.Every game has some flaws and bugs and lame story,but this game is promising a good one just give it a try. I bought this game on sale (0,89$). I think it's 4.99$ regular price but honestly what can you buy for 5 bucks.


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