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Downloads: Fun and Games
License Type: Demo
Price: $28
Date Added: Feb 2008
Operating Systems: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista
File Size: 67200KB
Downloads Count: 650
Author: Basilisk Games

Old-school isometric role-playing gets a minor facelift and the first chapter in a new trilogy.

Remember Ultima? Tile-built worlds? Isometric view angles? Turn-based combat? Having the option to abandon your computer at will without hitting pause to prevent holy pandemonium from breaking loose?

Miss that? If so, you'll want to give Eschalon: Book One a try. It's a role-playing game (RPG) done up old-style, but rendered in clean, high-res lines and inviting hues that make it visually superior to most of its bygone predecessors. Like stats? It's got 'em. Loot? Scattered everywhere. Pick a class, a name, your attributes, and you're off to wrestle with oodles of enemies, plot twists, and your own missing memories.

Eschalon's world may not quite be Ultima-sized, but it's big enough, with a story that doesn't hold your hand or force you to tackle missions single-file. Give it a look if you miss this sort of thing, and know that it's called "book one" because it's the first in a planned trilogy. Plenty more to come, in other words. And why not? Like bell bottoms, sideburns, and platform shoes, there's no reason old school RPGs like this can't make a comeback.

Download Eschalon: Book One (Price: $27.95; Scope-limited demo)

--Matt Peckham

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File Name Downloads License Date
Play tile-based jigsaw puzzles and create your own games
3 May 2008
Play tile-based logic puzzles and create your own games
6 May 2008
Are you ready for some real action? Try to repulse an assault of helicopters!
2 Shareware May 2008
Shoot the bouncing balls to destroy them all.
11 May 2008
Fun and fast moving card game based on the internationally popular Casino game
288 Shareware May 2008
Solve crosswords, anagrams, word-based puzzles, nonograms and sudokus
147 Shareware May 2008
An 12th coloring book program filled with 50 pages of airplanes.
Shareware May 2008
Puzzlefun for the whole family with different gamemodes, level and scores
Shareware May 2008
Navigate your mouse through 50 crazy mazes while eating food and avoiding cats.
15 Shareware May 2008
Most popular poker variants: Texas Holdem, Omaha, Draw Poker.
94 Shareware May 2008
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