Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower
Silver Lemur Games · 2026 · RPG, Party-Based RPG, Dungeon Crawler, CRPG, Grid-Based Movement
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Very Positive98% · 51
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About Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower
Overview:
Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s like Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series and others. Using the classic first-person perspective, over grid movement, turn-based system to travel in an open world with fast travel options and a quick combat.
You lead a party of 7 adventurers, manually assembled or pre-made, on an epic adventure to fight the evil which lurks in Amberland. It's light, fairy tale, epic, heroic and slightly humorous. It does not take tons of hours to complete or require an endless grind to progress. Basically, it's a love letter from the 90s, the golden era of RPGs.
Notable features:
* First person perspective, 90 degree rotation, over grid movement (like in the 90s).
* Turn-based (both combat and exploration).
* Party-based (7 heroes, either predefined or manually assembled upon new game).
* Fast paced combat, especially blazing fast against much weaker enemies.
* Quick travel to reduce backtracking.
* Easy inventory management with separate personal equipment encumbrance system and an infinite magic bag of carrying for items not equipped at the moment.
* Open world with a big overworld to explore.
* Quests (including both main storyline quests and side quests).
* Rich world lore (spanning between all games of the series, but no knowledge of prior games required).
Technicalities:
The game was designed to look and feel like one of the old games while working flawlessly on modern machines, especially on very high resolutions. It has very low hardware requirements and should run on even very old machines.
About the relation to other games in the series:
The Legends of Amberland titles can be played in any order you wish. They share the same world and lore (historical events) but each has a separate and self-contained story. There might be some mild references to events in the previous titles of the series, but more like a flavor, so it does not hinder the ability to play those in any order.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Compared to the prior two games in the series, it's more of the same (good way) but also more of the same (repetitive way). Balancing feels a bit better, wizards seem tuned to be more competitive with warriors for longer (plus long-term buffs are better handled), and the loot system is improved. Dungeons have better use of secret doors and traps and such. Combat was mostly engaging with a weird spike around three quarters of the way into the game, but I did miss clearing a few areas on Hard mode. Story is still pretty one-note (albeit sometimes unexpectedly funny). I still enjoyed it, but there wasn't anything that felt like an obvious 'big change' from the player POV. It is neat to see how quickly the series has adopted its own tropes from game to game. Anyways, this type of RPG with modernized controls is awesome and I love to see 'em.5 found this helpful
If you liked Amberland 1 and 2, you will like Amberland 3. I like the introduction of the clue system - it felt pretty good as a mechanic for quests. The new classes were fun to play with as well. Not as much of a leap in feature richness as it was from 1 to 2, but overall a solid entry. Fingers crossed for getting a 4th!2 found this helpful
It's good but it's short. IMO much shorter than Legends II, but has quality-of-life improvements (e.g. midnight rune). Scratches the M&M itch pretty well but ... it would be nice to see a bit more 'complexity' in some future releases (more spells, buying spells from a magic shop, etc.)1 found this helpful
"If you liked the first two games, you'll like this one as well" - a lazy but not inaccurate review. However the dev isn't just doing more of the same, this game offers new things (more character classes, clue-based questing) while also improving older systems (game balance is vastly better than in the first two titles!). So overall, a steady and evolutionary improvement for the series. If you make Amberland IV, I will buy and play that one too.1 found this helpful
Great game. Just finished it on Hard mode. Pretty much scratched the old school itch. Great humor and gameplay.
Another awesome throwback to the days of Might and magic just much more user friendly :)
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