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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

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4.6/5

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4.6

561 Reviews

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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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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 21, 2013

Qaatz

Verified owner

Games: 539 Reviews: 3

Wonderful, open world

The first time I started playing this game, I felt a bit overwhelmed, just enough to get me intrigued. Once I got into it, I loved the game, despite the bugs. The world is huge and open, the character system allows for loads of customization. Took hours of blissful exploration before I was ready to finish and even after the first finish, I had to start right over with a new tack. I would strongly recommend you try it for yourself.


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Posted on: July 8, 2013

ThankYouCory

Games: 11 Reviews: 1

Nothing but good memories

A creative and highly-polished game of which I have nothing but good memories. The story is original, the gameplay is fantastic and I can barely remember a single bug.


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Posted on: July 15, 2013

Aimzygunn

Games: 21 Reviews: 1

Worth every penny.

I don't have to say much because everyone else has said what this game is about. This, by far, has been my favorite RPG that I've ever played next to actually play pen and paper games. I never played the technological side of the game, but the magic side is very impressive and the cool thing about the game was I wasn't able to ride the train because my magic was too strong and they feared it would overload the train or something of that nature. Small things like that made the game made it feel more "real" to me. Some of the dialogues in the game, and the little Easter eggs are wonderfully done. One of my favorites was using the summoning sword with maxed magic :) I wont say what happens but I got a good laugh out of it. all in all, I bought this game when it first came out and would gladly pay 6 dollars more to have it again. Thank you gog.com for adding this jewel. All RPG developers should learn from example from this game to make better games and stop relying on graphics and DLC's.


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Posted on: August 28, 2013

Ra-Seru

Verified owner

Games: 127 Reviews: 7

arcanumunchies

I love this game. You can customize your characters in such a way that it envelops your character in individual storylines seen differently if you chose a different character type. However, many of the more complex and tasty storylines are unfinished or creepily absent once you get into the meat. nevertheless, an excellent game featuring the awesome, rare, uneasy melding of magick and tech. An epic buy if you don;t mind deep stories that finish fantastically but leave you hanging. ;) love this game.


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Posted on: December 18, 2013

.dawn

Games: 11 Reviews: 1

One of the best RPGs ever made

Most underrated RPG I know. Fell in love with the world and story. Complete freedom of playing style. If you can live with the old-fashioned graphics and like complex RPGs with fascinating worlds you will love this game!


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