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Ancient Domains of Mystery
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Description

In Ancient Domains of Mystery, the player character is an adventurer who has traveled to a remote mountain range to save Ancardia, the world of the game, from the forces of Chaos. The player can either continue on with this quest or join on with Chaos, depending on the choices that the player makes in the game. Becoming corrupted by the forces of chaos causes mutations which have positive or negative effects.

The game features a wide range of character races and classes, a point-based skill system, many subplots, and a detailed world which allows to grow herbs and repair/upgrade weapons with smithing.
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Screenshots

Ancient Domains of Mystery Windows Character creation - Choosing a race.
Ancient Domains of Mystery DOS Character generation: selecting a race.
Ancient Domains of Mystery DOS Character generation: choosing a talent.
Ancient Domains of Mystery Windows Entering a village.
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Promo Images

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Alternate Titles

  • "Ancient Dungeons of Mystery" -- Working title
  • "ADOM" -- Official abbreviation
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Part of the Following Groups

User Reviews

ADOM is one of the best of the rogue-like games. DOS Droog (522)
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Critic Reviews

GameHippo.com DOS Dec 03, 2002 9 out of 10 90
GameHippo.com Windows Dec 03, 2002 9 out of 10 90
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only) Linux Feb 26, 2016 5 out of 6 83
Freegame.cz Windows Apr 24, 2002 75 out of 100 75
Abandonia Reloaded DOS Apr 08, 2005 3.7 out of 5 74
Abandonia Reloaded Windows Apr 08, 2005 3.7 out of 5 74
HappyPuppy Windows Oct 10, 1996 Unscored Unscored
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Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
ADOM - Downloadable version 5 Rola (8277)
Apr 20, 2014
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DOS Credits (1001 people)
727 developers, 274 thanks

Ancient Domains of Mystery Version 0.9.9 Gamma Release 15 - Title Screen

Created by:
Maintained by:
Ported to DOS, Windows and Windows 95 by:
Version 0.9.9 Gamma Release 15 - Documentation

Ancient Domains Of Mystery Credits   An Interactive Adventure In A Fantastic World Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 by:
Thomas Biskup (All Rights Reserved All Over The World)
Dedication:
To my parents for always allowing me to choose my path in life.
To:
Dave Arneson, E. Gary Gygax (credited as Gary Gygax), for inventing the most wonderful pastime ever.
Version 0.9.9 Gamma Release 15 - Documentation Appendix A: Credits

Many people were involved in the creation of ADOM. At this point I'd like to thank :
my great testers[who sacrificed their precious time to test the work of a madman.]
Thanks (in alphabetical order) for their efforts in testing pretty buggy alpha software and enduring endless program crashes go to::
Thomas Dembach (credited as  Thomas ), Kilian Guenther (credited as Kilian ), Tim Jordan (credited as Tim ), Stefan Jokisch (credited as Stefan ), Nicole Lubinski (credited as Nicole ), Michael Niewoehner (credited as Michael ), Jens Spitczok v. Brinski (credited as Jens ), Jochen Terstiege (credited as Jochen ), Andreas Willenbrink (credited as Andreas )
Miscellaneous credits (for inspiration, ideas, more testing and similar contributions) currently go to::
Boudewijn Wayers (for providing some space on his FTP site for this game and for creating the first ADOM WWW page.), Cenk Ergan (for providing the new official ADOM FTP site and for providing web space), Dan Shiovitz (for doing all the work necessary to create the newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.adom.), Richard Fowler (for maintaining the FAQ for ADOM. Direct all questions to [email protected]), Erwin Mascardo (for being the first FAQ maintainer.), Sandra Whiting (for being a wonderful proofreader for the manual and for creating a Winword-based manual.), R. Dittmer (for creating another Winword-based manual [and he was the first one to do so].)
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