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Phantasie

Available Platform: Amiga

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Phantasie
Year1987
GenreRole Playing
Rating4

77/100 based on 7 Editorial reviews. Add your vote

PublisherStrategic Simulations Inc
DeveloperAndromeda Software
OS supportedWin7 64 bit, Win8 64bit, Windows 10, MacOS 10.6+
Updated5 August 2021

Game Review

Phantasie is a role-playing game designed by Winston Douglas Wood and released by Strategic Simulations Inc initially in 1985 for Apple II and other 8-bit platforms.

The conversions to Amiga and Atari ST were curated by Andromeda Software and published in 1987. An MS-DOS version was released in 1988. The game was the first chapter of a popular series ended with Phantasie III: The Wrath of Nikademus (if we exclude the fourth title that was released in Japan only).

Phantasie resembles the first chapters of Ultima, at least in terms of graphics. Its main features include managing a party of up to 6 characters, with several classes to choose from: ranger, monk, thief, fighter, priest, and wizard. Races include the classic human, halfling, dwarf, elf, gnome, but also ogre, pixie, lizard man, minotaur, and more. Explorations of dungeons and wilderness use a top-down view. In towns, you can find shops and also banks, where you can store money. The view switches to a separate screen during encounters with enemies, where you can control each character in a turn-based combat mode.

Phantasie was a very advanced RPG, penalized only by graphics a bit outdated - or, at least, not improved when ported from 8 to 16-bit. Despite this, fans still love it, and that every RPG aficionado should try at least once.

Review by: GN Team
Published: 7 August 2021 10:28 am



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Latest Comments

  • Manu - 2023-05-10 - Reply

    @Guido, as written in the FAQ and in the download page, you should not use Save States. They are incompatible with WHDLoad games. You must use the in-game save features and exit the game properly with the right key.

  • Guido Leber - 2023-05-10 - Reply

    Superb Game....But the Save state is broken...sometimes you can't load our prevoiusly Save state as the game then crashes with no reasons. Perhaps it is my fault, I surel won't blame ou for your work, but If you could fix that, I'd give you a five stars rating.

    Kind regards

  • IndyMotoRider - 2022-02-11 - Reply

    When I was a kid I was obsessed with this game. Makes sense as I started playing D&D around 1983.