Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse

Decent game with great ideas to reward some roleplay and beatufiul art, covered by outdated mechanics and controls It's also what D&D needs, settings that are not just sword coast, north or two cities slightly more into the continent

Fühlt sich an wie Sindbad Hier geht's zu meinem Nostalgie-Waetsch's Play: https://youtu.be/G91I6A9XaUY Wer, wie ich, diese alten Filme "Der Dieb von Bagdad", "Sindbad" oder "Das goldene Schwert" mochte, wird Gefallen an diesem Spiel finden. Die Grafik aus 1994 lässt sich auch heute noch unter dem Aspekt "Pixellook" gut anschauen. Der Ton ist halt so Mitte-90er typisch, stört aber nicht weiter. Die Steuerung funktioniert sogar mit Maus und fühlt sich auch ganz gut an. Ja, manchmal muss man zweimal klicken, bis der Typ mit einem redet, aber es stört nicht wirklich. Ansonsten erleben wir hier eine Geschichte, die aus 1001 Nacht entstammen könnte und schön erzählt wird (natürlich in Textform, Sprachausgabe gibt es nicht). Dafür sind alle Texte deutsch. Es macht wirklich Spaß, in diesen Klassiker noch einmal einzutauchen. Folgt mir auch gerne bei Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41912197-waetschs-play

This game honestly works fine on steam deck

https://youtu.be/pMLr_2bp5S8 Way ahead of it's time in the 1990s for story and narrative choice, but now more than thirty years later it can't hold up.

I can see what this game was trying to do. At the time, D&D had so many worlds and they were trying to move into video games as it was just becoming popular. The style of the game is like a hybrid of Zelda 2 and Zelda. It should have either gone full platform or point and click like many other D&D games at the time. It just didn't hold interest in this modern era.

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top shelf classic

I grew up on this game and am too biased to give a straight review. (I love it to death and hasn't aged as poorly as others, imo, but again I'm biased as hell.) I did want to report that my saves rolled back after closing the game and I lost an hour or so of progress. I'm guessing something with the Steam cloud saves got jumbled up. Maybe it was a fluke! Who knows, but there it is. I've never had that happen with any other game, and these older games can be finnicky. When I play this on DosBOX on a non-Steam install, I've never had saves rollback before.

It's a very unique and fun adventure RPG game.