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Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

Developer: Blue Sky Productions Publisher: Origin Systems
March 1992
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#547 All-time
#8 for 1992
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Western RPG#25 Dungeon crawler#11 Immersive sim#12 High fantasy#58 Medieval fantasy#21 Dark fantasy#38
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The Abyss-dwelling wizard brothers Garamon and Tyball accidentally summon a demon, the Slasher of Veils, while experimenting with inter-dimensional travel. Garamon is used as bait to lure the demon into a room imbued with virtue. However, the demon offers Tyball great power if he betrays Garamon. Tyball agrees, but the betrayal fails; Garamon is killed, but seals the demon inside the room. Because he lacks virtue, Tyball cannot re-enter by himself, and plans to sacrifice Baron Almric's daughter, Arial, at the doorway to gain entrance.
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Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
1992 • Blue Sky Productions Origin  
5xFloppy 5.25"
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ウルティマ アンダーワールド The Stygian Abyss
1993 • Electronic Arts Victor Origin  
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JP 4 938833 000675
ウルティマ アンダーワールド
1997 • Blue Sky Productions Origin  
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JP 4 938833 003355 SLPS-00742
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Quite frankly, one of the best games ever made. Knowing little about the Ultima series, I picked this game up when it was released, and then lost myself in an immersive world full of challenges both of the fighting kind and puzzle kind. The first person perspective was novel for a CRPG at the time, with most of the contemporary products being isometric or close to it, and the free movement set it a rung or two up the ladder from the steppers such as Eye of the Beholder..

The combination of great story, first person perspective and the aforesaid challenges all added up to a transcendental experience. It's held up pretty well too over the ages, and since places like GOG sell it for a song (coupled with DoSBox) there's no reason to not check it out.
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chikin ウルティマ アンダーワールド 2024-04-20T04:37:16Z
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  • navz 2021-10-01 12:55:43.446627+00
    For those uninitiated, this game directly (and indirectly) inspired so many games, I'd definitely put it in top 10 most influential games ever.
    Here's a short list and I'm probably missing some:

    Elder Scrolls: Arena -> Daggerfall -> Morrowind -> Oblivion -> Skyrim
    System Shock -> BioShock -> Dead Space
    Deus Ex
    Half-Life 2
    Tomb Raider
    Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
    Arx Fatalis
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    • dontwannaknow 2022-03-18 18:23:18.232584+00
      What bout ultimate 4
    • ... 2022-11-25 06:01:05.351814+00
      King's Field -> Shadow Tower -> Demon's Souls -> Dark Souls etc
    • essentialpatritian 2023-05-14 22:19:52.508736+00
      Thief -> MGS & Splinter Cell -> Hitman & Assassin's Creed. Funny thing is the stealth in this game is awful, might as well not exist outside of the spells due the balancing, but because of the AI developments that were mostly combat focused the team were able to go on to make stuff like Thief.
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  • ... 2021-11-24 18:00:08.52234+00
    way better than i remembered
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  • residentLeever 2022-01-15 19:26:36.638628+00
    Now playable in Unity with the GOG version!
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    • ... 2022-02-18 22:31:29.113719+00
      ill need to revist it
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  • DomMazzetti 2023-03-24 02:56:26.663547+00
    That this came out before Wolfenstein 3D will forever blow my mind.
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  • Temon357 2023-10-11 11:56:16.187583+00
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  • Temon357 2024-01-04 07:38:42.87833+00
    What? Come on I gave a link to the patch, not hacked rom. Anyway, PS1 version is translated now...
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  • CoolGuy905 2024-01-12 04:24:04.309453+00
    the first sim to be immersive
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