Black Crypt (Amiga)

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Description

Twenty-two years ago a powerful cleric named Estoroth Paingiver was banished and sealed in a crypt. He has been gaining strength since then and is now threatening the country of Astera again. You must take control of a party of four adventurers sent to find and seal Estoroth again by recovering the lost relics that sent him into exile in the past.

Black Crypt is a first-person perspective 3D dungeon exploration game similar to the Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder series.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Auto-mapping
• Gameplay feature: Hunger / Thirst
• Genre: Dungeon Crawler
• Sound engine: MED

User Reviews

A game to rival Eye of the Beholder	Vashna (19)
One of the best early RPG's	Phil Manes (2)

Critic Reviews

Info	Feb, 1992		100
Datormagazin	May, 1992	98 out of 100	98
The One for Amiga Games	Mar, 1992	92 out of 100	92
Pelit	Feb, 1992	90 out of 100	90
CU Amiga	Mar, 1992	90 out of 100	90
Amiga Joker	Mar, 1992	83 out of 100	83
Play Time	Apr, 1992	83 out of 100	83
Power Play	Apr, 1992	71 out of 100	71
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	Apr 28, 2012	4 out of 6	67
AmigaInfo	Jun, 1996	6 out of 10	60

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Trivia

Cover art Easter egg

If something happens to the bottom half of your box's cover and you forget who published the game, don't fear -- cover illustrator Randy Barrett helpfully hid EA's logo of the time, the "square circle triangle" logo, in the goat-demon's ankle-bracelets.

Graphics mode

This was one of the few commercial Amiga games to use the Extra Half-Bright graphics mode. This offered the standard 32 colours, as well as darker versions of each one, and was used to create a dark and moody atmosphere. This does mean the game does not work on the very first Amigas (retrospectively named the Amiga 1000) as this mode was added later.

Out of the starting gate

Black Crypt is the first game developed by Raven Software which only had five people back then.

Unreleased PC port

Rick Johnson, one of the original programmers, started in the late 1990s to port the game to the PC as a part-time project. A two-level demo version was released in 1998 by Raven Software, but the full conversion was never completed.


Information also contributed by Martin Smith and Indra was here.

Related Web Sites

• Black Crypt Maps (all the maps for the game (on ravengames.com))