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Ultima™ 8 Gold Edition

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3.6/5

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3.6

103 Reviews

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Ultima™ 8 Gold Edition
Description
The Guardian has tricked you, Avatar. After you defeated Batlin on Serpent's Isle, he banished you to Pagan, a world under his control. Once, it was a beautiful land, but ever since the ancient battle between the Elemental Titans and the evil "Destroyer", it is engulfed in eternal twilight. Titans -...
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Product details
1994, Origin Systems, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c...
Time to beat
33.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
50 h Completionist
41.5 h All Styles
Description
The Guardian has tricked you, Avatar. After you defeated Batlin on Serpent's Isle, he banished you to Pagan, a world under his control. Once, it was a beautiful land, but ever since the ancient battle between the Elemental Titans and the evil "Destroyer", it is engulfed in eternal twilight. Titans - now worshiped as gods - are cruel and uncaring. They bestow power on their most dedicated followers who, in turn, terrorize Pagan's population. To find a way back home, you need to become a Titan yourself before the Guardian succeeds in his plot to conquer Britannia--and then Earth itself.

The eighth installment of the Ultima series takes a much darker tone. The story is much more mature (do the ends justify the means?) and the game focuses more on action, like climbing and jumping across platforms. Training your character has also changed: the more you use an ability, the better you are with it. Without a party to assist you, you must rely on your own strength, dexterity, intelligence, and magical abilities to save Britannia and Earth.

  • Dark, engrossing story with a moral dilemma: will you accept evil for the sake of the greater good?
  • Much more action-oriented than previous installments with fluent and responsive combat mechanics and new ways to explore the unknown.
  • Living world: each inhabitant has his or her own schedule, going about ordinary business in Pagan.
  • Includes the speech pack: some of the major game characters are fully voiced.

© 1994, 2012 Electronic Arts Inc.

Goodies
manual cluebook The Chronicle of Pagan map reference card Lost Vale design documents
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:

ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY

ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY

This game is powered by DOSBox.
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
33.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
50 h Completionist
41.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Release date:
{{'1994-03-15T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
37 MB

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What improvements we made to this game:
Changelog (20 March 2025)
  • Validated stability.
  • Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11.
  • Verified Cloud Saves support.
Internal Update (16 April 2019)
  • Fixed a typo in DOSBox config file.
Internal Update (21 March 2019)
  • Added Cloud Saves functionality.
Internal Update (19 July 2018)
  • Added DOS settings shortcut.
  • Fixed Start Menu folder structure.
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Posted on: October 12, 2013

juanwalker

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Games: 17 Reviews: 1

Music to avaialble

I bouth the game but the musica wasnt on the download


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Posted on: January 2, 2013

sould_out187

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Games: 68 Reviews: 1

Totally awesome!

This was probably the first ever game on PC that captured my imagination start to finish. I believe it is definitely a fit for the series and the storyline is great! Very dark tones make this game just great and the lonely adventure is worth every minute spent. After all these years, well done Ultima VIII


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Posted on: April 20, 2012

bqwert1

Games: 289 Reviews: 17

User reviews of this game are a disgrace

This is a terrible game. A broken, barely playable mess that was sold in alpha state and never fixed. GOG should not be selling this in the first place. Hugely excessive fanboyism is always a major problem with GOG user reviews. But the fact that there are insane fanboys giving this objectively worthless game 5 stars completely and for ever discredits all GOG user review scores.


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Posted on: July 17, 2012

Moe1981

Games: 9 Reviews: 2

Love it

I absolutely love this game. You get a lot of freedom to do whatever you want. you can mess around the streets with the magic you learn in the deepest catacombs. Perhaps you get too much freedom. you can throw a very important item into the sea somewhere and its gone forever. you can never finish this game. just throw one of the obelisk items somewhere and you'll never find it. I loved making my spells. putting reagents in a bag and summoning. i loved carefully crafting sorcery spells by using the pentagram. i would be reading the scroll and putting reagents and choosing the right candles. you make your spells while listening to the sound of a crackling fire near the avatar or the rain. this game has an awesome mood and that's what its all about. the mood. there are tons of secret off shore item to find and tricky dungeons to explore. the harder you look the more you'll find. nobody can tell you how to play this. you can learn all the different schools of magic and walk around messing the city up with it. forget the story line and go have fun. or just finish the game and become all powerful.


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Posted on: May 4, 2013

LordGarrett

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Games: 23 Reviews: 1

Best Memories!

Still have the collector Box with floppy Disks , Tissue Map and metal Pentagram! One of my most treamendous game memory !!!!


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