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Two heroes, one mission, many dangers.

Realms of Chaos, a VGA-era action-platformer from the Apogee team, with 26 levels filled to the brim with menacing magic, terrorizing traps, and giant monstrous guardians, is available on GOG.com, for only $5.99

Endrick, the warrior, and Elandra, the sorceress--there's no bard in the world that wouldn't sing the songs about their heroic deeds. The Glorious Two vanquished the evil spawns and rid the land of menacing forces of chaos, thus instating the Kingdom of Peace and bringing the Age of Prosperity to mankind. However, only a few of the songs mention the curse that has befallen on the heroes, and most bards will not sing them. They dare not risk corrupting the memory of the Glorious Two. Ignorants! There's nothing shameful in the dimorphic curse. What's the harm in knowing that there was a good reason Elandra and Endrick were never seen together? That the Glorious Two was actually the Glorious One? No harm at all! That's why our order holds the Annual Dimorphic Curse Awareness Week. Would you like a leaflet to read some more?

Realms of Chaos is a 1995 classic Apogee action-platformer with a fantasy setting and an RPG-ish feel. There are two characters at your disposal--a mighty swordsman and a magic-wielding sorceress. You can switch from one to another at any time to utilize their capabilities, but they both share one life-bar. These interesting mechanics, 26 challenging levels, and wicked enemy design (think giant bosses!), makes Realms of Chaos one of the most interesting action games of its time.

Muster all your magic and might to conquer the Realms of Chaos, for only $5.99 on GOG.com.
Realms of Chaos? Yeah, that makes up for last week. :D
Odd, I thought I have experience with all of the Apogee platformers but I have no memory of this one.
awesome! Great release, great platformer!
Thanks GOG.
Love those Apogee gems.
Brings back good memories.
Would love to own all their classics.
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tfishell: Thanks for the oldie. I logged into Facebook and saw "Waking Mars" (and the sale price), and figured thought it would be the only release, and was sad. But I came here and saw this! :)

So I'm assuming the "3" is for Thursday. Was kinda hoping my last-minute Simcity 3000 prediction was correct, but Settlers 3 also has quite a few votes on the wishlist. (However, why isn't the original Setters here?)
Man... It'd be great to see SC3000 here. That soundtrack!
Not familiar with this one, so good work bringing it here GOG

Also: Badass cover
One of my favorite games! Thanks, GOG! (^_^)
Insta-buy! I remember installing the shareware version from the Duke Nukem 3D disc.
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htown1980: This game is a bit after my time, never heard of it.

But here is a pretty good review from Mr Phreakindee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb3o6k99FWc

He seems to think its ok.
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Fever_Discordia: The charcter switching immediatly reminded me of Trine, but I think there was something even earlier with a similar machanic back on the C64 - you switched between a guy and a girl in a futuristic setting, the guy was the fighter and the girl was the acrobat for the platform parts - what the heck was THAT called now...
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htown1980: According to the comments in the youtube vid I just posted, Hammerfist...
Yeah, that was it - cheers both, I seem to remember it being pretty good, I liked the idea at least
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Fever_Discordia: The charcter switching immediatly reminded me of Trine, but I think there was something even earlier with a similar machanic back on the C64 - you switched between a guy and a girl in a futuristic setting, the guy was the fighter and the girl was the acrobat for the platform parts - what the heck was THAT called now...
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amok: Hammerfist! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHgNWCl0d4

(Yes I know, I am the only person how liked it... sigh..)
Yup
Post edited March 05, 2013 by Fever_Discordia
Interesting it seems to start at a slightly different place to where the shareware version I played began from.

Also the maximum difficulty doesn't appear to try push you off the screen at least not straight away.

I feel so bad having played the shareware version of this on....... super easy.
There's also an old leaked beta of the game here:
http://vo-noobs.com/apogee/
It mixes levels from several episodes, has more story elements, and an additional boss fight that's not in the final version of the game. It also appears to have EGA graphics only.
Looks interesting, thanks GOG!
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Roman5: Also: Badass cover
That would make a cool thread, best box, cover, packaging.
Apogee, huh? they were putting out good stuff around that time.
Hmmm will have to see if I can find an LP of this.