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Game #2925
Hall of Belated Fame Inductee  Nahlakh    View all Top Dogs in this genre
RPG   Roguelike

Rating: 8.48 (58 votes)

Nahlakh box cover

Nahlakh screenshot
Tom Proudfoot's first published game, Nahlakh, is a traditional top-down role-playing game that pits your party of eight adventurers against a force of evil threatening the land. While the crude graphics and the really hard first fight with a whole tribe of kobolds may scare away a more casual player, this game is a nugget of gold for the fans of the genre.

The turn-based combat engine is quite easy to learn and among the best I have seen in role-playing games. Sporting such nice features as targeting specific body parts (the groin being my favorite), fatigue and various states of injury (bleeding, poisoned, stunned, collapsed etc.), the fights are a joy.

Skills and experience are both handled extremely well here. A character advances only in those skills that he uses and every character is able to learn any skill (except magic and prayer). There are some skills that are not usable in the game at all, though, but that is a minor fault.

The magic system is pretty much straight copied from the Ultima games, with each of the over one hundred spells consisting of three magic syllables. But unlike in Ultima, you actually can experiment with the spells and deduce new variants apart from those you already know.

The game is nicely balanced to keep you on the edge of your seat. Each time you think you've got the upper hand in combat, it's time to move on to the next dungeon where you will again be fighting for your life. Thus it is also really easy to get killed if you venture somewhere you aren't supposed to go yet.

With the staggering amount of different magic items (14,000 different weapons for example) and nice user-friendly features (automap, a single-click full party heal and the lack of random encounters), Nahlakh is very much recommended to all who like a good RPG.

Note: Faster computers may need a slowdown program to run the game. It works well on my 233 MHz one, but crashes on a friend's 400 MHz. Tom Proudfoot has recently released the game as freeware, although you can still pay him the $15 registration "fee" if you enjoy the game ;)

Reviewed by: Obi
Designer: Tom Proudfoot
Developer: Proudfoot Games
Publisher: Freeware
Year: 1994
Software Copyright: Proudfoot Games
Theme: Fantasy, Shareware
Multiplayer:  
None that we know of
System Requirements: DOS
Where to get it:
Related Links: Official site
Links:    
If you like this game, try: Natuk, Tower of Darkness, Magic Candle III, The

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