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Platforms
MobyRank MobyScore
DOS
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3.8
Windows
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4.0

Description

Darklands is an epic role playing game set in medieval Germany. You can begin by either selecting a pre-made party (quickstart) or by creating your own characters. Creating your characters is quite interesting, as you begin when they're 10 and choose a career path for them. The more time you choose at a certain career path, in 5 year periods, the better your character will become, and this is all before the adventure begins.

Whilst in a city or other inhabited area, you're given choices on how to proceed, sort of like a which-way book. This is the way you'll communicate and move about within towns and castles.

Once you've left a city, you're taken to the travel screen, which is a real time map of Germany with a lone figure representing your party. Here you travel around the countryside, getting into adventures and meeting friends and enemies...

Combat (speaking of enemies) is real time, but you can pause the action to give orders, so it's sort of pseudo-turn based.

The game has an epic scope, and can go on for as long as you'd like it to. The main goal is to collect as much fame for you and your party as possible, because the more fame you have the better quests you'll receive, and the better the rewards.

Alternate Titles

  • "Darklands: Heroic Role-Playing Adventures In Medieval Germany" -- Tag-lined title

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Merchant Title Platform Price  
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Darklands DOS $14.95  
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Darklands $5.99  
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User Reviews

A Historic RPG! DOS SDfish (2497)
A realistic historical CRPG that could've revolutionized the industry. DOS Ray Soderlund (3500)
I haven't found its equal in the 9 years since I started playing it. DOS Gordon Menck (3)
One of, if not the only the greatest CRPGs made DOS ZombieDepot (45)
Wow, Darklands is an RPG that would kick the living day-lights out of today's games! DOS Indra was here Bronze Star Contributing Member (14330)
Fantastically atmospheric DOS Hugh McKenna (5)
Most original RPG ever. DOS Shogun (6)

The Press Says

Svenska Hemdatornytt DOS Nov, 1992 87 out of 100 87
Power Unlimited DOS Sep, 1993 8 out of 10 80
Power Play DOS Sep, 1992 62 out of 100 62

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Wrong Platforms? 6 vedder Bronze Star Contributing Member (17902)
Mar 05, 2012

Trivia

The game needs over 600K of free DOS memory to avoid crashes. In fact, the MORE lower memory you can free up, the better the game runs, something that is barely addressed by all the later patches.


This entry was contributed by Picard (28431) and Brian Rubin (20)
 

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