Avernum 2: Crystal Souls

Been a long time coming, those games are simply perfect at being sprawling adventures in grim conditions, some jank included. The way you revisit the map with the empire invasion is really neat, and a lot of nods to the previous game will make you smile. The many secrets and dungeons are rarely a let down, and honestly I don't really know how to describe it, it's an experience you live if you can handle oldschool CRPG. Play smart and you can avoid some tough fights. This is Avernum!

SHORT REVIEW Avernum 2 Crystal Souls is an old school cRPG and the second game in a series. Its an isometric game and the graphics and sound may be basic but the plot, characters and dialogue are great. PLOT: Good to very good. GAMEPLAY: Pretty much a dungeon crawl with a turn based combat system. DIFFICULTY: Reasonable in my opinion although I played on the default “normal” setting and I didn't try the harder difficulty settings. As with other Spiderweb games there is bit of a nasty difficulty spike near the end on some of the final quests. GRAPHICS & SOUND: Graphics: Basic. Sound: Poor. REPLAY VALUE: There is very little replay value in this game as you can do everything in one play though and there isn't really any branching in the plot. My personal advice would the to play another Spiderweb game instead rather than replaying the same one, there's plenty to be going at. ISSUES AND BUGS: None. The game itself works “straight out of the box” with no messing around and appears to be completely bug free. It can be a little fickle with unlocking the game completion achievement at the end. ACHIEVEMENTS AND TRADING CARDS: Partial integration with St…

Simply because I'm having a lot of crashing on a gaming PC that runs modern games, I'm going to have to say no. No saving during combat either, so... hope you don't crash.

Another great Indie from long ago. Played Exile on Mac back when I was a kid and these are the up-rezzed versions of that game. Really enjoying the nostalgia and story.

Great game with lots of good storytelling.

I played all these Spiderweb Software games when they first came out and were titled "Exile." I had forgotten how complex and enjoyable they are. They still hold up today.