Old Amiga / Dos / C64 Dungeon Crawler RPGs

Bards Tale

Pool of Radiance

I remember playing almost all the Might and magic games, they were pretty great.
I loved one of the card game from one of the games (cant remember what number it was), I spent more times at Inns playing that rather than completing quests xD.

I didn't really have much that I remember on the C64, but I think I might have owned one of the Gauntlet games. Granted, the series lacked RPG elements until Gauntlet IV for the Mega Drive, but still plenty of dungeons. :P

I started playing games more in the Windows 95 era, so in terms of dungeoncrawlers, I'd have to go with Might and Magic VI and perhaps Stonekeep. I have played the Eye of the Beholder games before, though, and I still have a few of the gold box D&D games.

I upvoted that greenlight game, but I have to say that the monster designs look rather childist.

Dungeon Master II - The Legend of Skullkeep is easily my favorite game of that type. But Black Crypt, Dungeon Hack, the Dungeon Master series, and the Eye of the Beholder series were all awesome!

Personally, in newer games, I was a huge fan of Legend of Grimrock. It's actually the first game of this type I ever managed to finish!

You and your ancient platforms. Although most of them came out before my time, I did play a bit of Dungeon Keeper. It was very fun from what I can remember.

Hmm, had an Apple 2, but most of those old games were on every platform. If I had to pick the most fun series hmm, Wizardry, also Might & Magic, Ultima, Bard's tale, plus whatever I've forgotten. Wouldn't want to choose just one favourite, they were all great.

One thing I wouldn't have patience for nowadays though is drawing maps. :)

Good question, I was an Amiga player so would have to say "Legend" by Mindscape.
I remember playing the demo for 20 hours+ even before I bought the full game.

Ultima III and IV on the C64 were amazing at the time =D

It used to be an extremely somber experience, carrying one of your dead party members back to Lord British's Castle to be resurrected ...

Skullkeep was amazing! Eye of the Beholder is high on my list as well...I can still waste waaaaaaaaay too much time puttering around with those games on Dosbox.

i vote for the old ssi gold box games (above all pool of radiance and champions of krynn), dungeon master and eye of the beholder; besides rogue, moria, nethack and angband if ascii graphics count;P

Trinner is the winner. I will add you on steam and ask you for your gamersgate account.

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I remembered _Elvira: Mistress of the Dark_, hehe. More of a click-and-point adventure game but it had first person perspective with the 90 degree turns etc

Beneath a Steel Sky

Shadow of the Comet

I liked LoG, but there is not much in character variety... Loved Wizardry 8 so much, thinking about playing it again. Afaik most of the old games didn't have a map... so i'm not even bothering playing them. HoaBW looks very promising though, probably i'd buy it on steam.

Hired Guns

May be the favorite to name from old times but I played the SSI series for Dragonlance and Eye of the Beholder games much more. There really are countless titles to name. Perihelion, Fate Gates of Dawn, ...

The thing is, there are many new indie titles out there that are close to those games we loved back in the day. I loved every minute of Legend of Grimlock. Similarly Avadon, Avernum and Geneforge series might work quite well for fans of old SSI works.

Zork

FTW

First RPG I ever played and on the C64

Rerolled as trinner declined my friend request. New winner of the indiefort bundle is Ev11.