Jandor, the legendary hero of Nox, defeated evil necromancers and trapped their souls in an orb, which was then cast into another dimension. Years later, the necromancer Hecubah discovered that the orb was in the possession of Jack Mower, an ordinary guy who lives in a trailer somewhere on our Earth with his girlfriend. Hecubah retrieves the orb, which greatly increases her power, making her particularly dangerous to the inhabitants of Nox. However, Jack is teleported to Nox along with the orb, and appears to be the only one who can stop Hecubah.

Nox is an action role-playing game. It has similarities to Diablo, having isometric perspective and fast-paced action-oriented combat. The RPG elements, however, are less prominent than in Diablo, with the player character gaining experience for vanquishing enemies and leveling up automatically after completing the linear main quests. In the beginning of the game the player must choose a character class for Jack, making him either a fighter, a conjurer, or a wizard. The fighter is physically strong but can only use melee weapons or a few special combat abilities; the conjurer fights with bows and can summon monsters to help him in combat; the wizard has low hit points and cannot equip many weapons, compensating this with a vast array of magic spells.

The multiplayer component consists of modes that are normally found in online first-person shooters, including Deathmatch (sub-divided into "free for all", team, and clan modes), Capture the Flag, as well as other variations of competitive gameplay such as Flagball, King of the Realm, and Elimination.

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Nox	Windows	$4.85
	Nox™		$5.99
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User Reviews

I could put a "Nox" pun here (i.e. Nox on wood), but the game is too good for that....	Chris Martin (1112)
This time Diablo can go back to hell!	MAT (53415)
Nox - the game that I love	paul cairey (325)

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The Press Says

Svenska PC Gamer	Apr, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Game industry News (GiN)	2000		90
GamePro (US)	Nov 24, 2000	4.5 out of 5	90
GameSpy	Mar 02, 2000	88 out of 100	88
games xtreme	Mar 13, 2000	8.7 out of 10	87
Gamezilla	Mar 30, 2000	86 out of 100	86
Game Revolution	Feb 01, 2000	B+	83
Gamesmania	2000	83 out of 100	83
GameSpot	Feb 22, 2000	8.1 out of 10	81
All Game Guide	2000		80

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TRUE or FALSE: Abandonware?	8	Dr. M. "Schadenfreude" Von Katze (588) Aug 25, 2011

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Trivia

Believe it or not, in this age of 3D accelerators Nox relied on the good, old, never-used, MMX protocols to create many graphic effects, including the spells.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by MAT

(53415) on Feb 16, 2000.