Avernum 4

Amazing retro dungeon crawler. Satisfying sound design and art coupled with excellent story telling. Well worth the money.

Pretty good game, need more time to check it out though.

Not the best from Spiderweb software, but still a good old-school RPG in a cool setting.

If you have loved every Spiderweb Software game ever, then you will love this game. I'm not in a position to comment from another perspective.

there's something I really like about these games

I bought the second Avernum trilogy extremely cheaply on sale and only because I wanted to play 6 which I hear is the most mechanically sophisticated of the series, so I am not upset about it but this game is extremely poorly optimized - there is no reason that a game this old should chug and load and be impossible to navigate with mouse when in certain screens (leveling, character creation, anytime you finish or receive a quest or item, anytime you are selling or buying). I think there's an updated version with skill trees and I would recommend that instead. I started playing Avernum back when 2 was released and this game has even more charm, it's even more engaging and actually quite breezy to play when the entire thing isn't dying. And no, it isn't my system, I'd literally have to travel back in time to find a computer that should have a hard time running this. I hear the updated version dumbs down the skill selection a bit but honestly, small price to pay for not chugging through this. The sad part is that the game itself is so good that I might even keep playing it. My only major design complaint so far is that the hotkeys are from a different century, and also just a pet peeve here - why have mages with lockpicks be the only ones who can open high level locks? What is the point of the rogue class in this case? I built a rogue only to get to the lockpicking part of the manual where it says basically points in lockpicking are useless unless they're on a wizard. So many old school games do this with either knock or similar spell that makes a huge part of rogue worthless and it has to stop! Rogues pick locks and disable traps, if anything they should have a slight edge on wizards not vice versa. EDIT: I finished this game, it's from a time where you could be asked to slog through an immense amount of game hours with very little in terms of gameplay. There's almost no reactivity to anything you do except in the ending slides, but at the time this was released the mechanics were good. Selecting any single use item or selling anything in a shop is insanely difficult because of the tiny piece you have to click, but oh well, small gripe. TLDR; for when it came out a classic, for games these days way too much time for too little meat on the bone.

un peu daté, mais j'aime toujours autant ;)

https://youtu.be/cGHo8hYu4wU Twenty years later this version is technically playable but not the easiest to play out of the Avernum franchise.