RPG games, or role-playing games, have come a long way since their humble beginnings as pen-and-paper adventures.
Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
RPG games, or role-playing games, have come a long way since their humble beginnings as pen-and-paper adventures.
Akalabeth: World of Doom is often considered the first stepping stone in the evolution of Western computer role-playing games. Developed in 1980 by Richard Garriott, who was still ...
Year: 1980 Genre: Role Playing
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Fate: Gates of Dawn is a first-person RPG created by reLINE for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1991. In terms of gameplay, Fate is similar to Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder:...
Year: 1991 Genre: Role Playing
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Sweet Home is a survival horror roleplaying game produced and published by Capcom for Famicom in 1989. Although it was released exclusively for Japan, it received an excellent translation for English-speaking players.
Year: 1989 Genre: Role Playing
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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the first chapter of the popular series of role-playing computer games. This simple dungeon crawler inspired by Dungeons & Dragons was developed by Andrew C.
Year: 1984 Genre: Role Playing
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Eye of the Beholder is a popular role-playing game developed by Westwood Associates for Strategic Simulations Inc. It was released in 1991 for MS-DOS and Amiga. Later, it was also ported to SNES and SEGA CD.
Year: 1991 Genre: Role Playing
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Shadowlands is a fantasy role-playing game developed by Teque London and published by Domark in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. The player controls a party of 4 characters w...
Year: 1992 Genre: Role Playing
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Crystals of Arborea is a medieval fantasy role-playing game created by the French studio Silmarils. It was published in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. It is the precursor t...
Year: 1990 Genre: Role Playing
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Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager is a fantasy RPG and sequel to Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, developed and published by Strategic Simulations. It was released in 1994 for DOS only. It...
Year: 1994 Genre: Role Playing
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Obitus is a role-playing game created by Scenario Developments and published by Psygnosis in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. A conversion for the SNES version was released in 1994.
Year: 1991 Genre: Role Playing
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Phantasie is a role-playing game designed by Winston Douglas Wood and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. It was released initially in 1985 for Apple II and other 8-bit platforms.
Year: 1987 Genre: Role Playing
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Blade is a fantasy turn-based tactical RPG created by Scorpius Software and released in 1997 for Amiga, including AGA and CD models. The game, designed by Mark Sheeky, is not a classic RPG.
Year: 1998 Genre: Role Playing
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Captive is a sci-fi RPG created by Antony Crowther and published by Mindscape in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The game uses a first-person perspective, with movements in the four directions in a pseudo-3D environment.
Year: 1990 Genre: Role Playing
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Bad Blood is a post-apocalyptic action/role-playing game played from a top-down view. It was created for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS by ORIGIN Systems and released in 1990. The gam...
Year: 1990 Genre: Role Playing
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The Faery Tale Adventure is an action RPG created by MicroIllusions originally for the Amiga and published in 1986. It was one of the earliest role-playing games published for Amiga.
Year: 1987 Genre: Role Playing
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