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Strap Yourselves In
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"The Survivor" (1988/89) for the Atari ST by a couple German guys. Seems to be a Dungeon Master clone with one character. The only screenshots or information about this RPG is from a a very positive review in the German ASM. That review scan is at the bottom:

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-survivor-_30435.html
 

k0syak

Cipher
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SimTrY

Novice
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Hard to Be a God

From the store Page :
Hard to be a God is a role playing game with adventure and espionage elements.
The main hero is a graduate of a medieval secret service high school where he took the course of combat and diplomatic training. He’s strong, sly and intelligent, he is the most powerful person living in Arkanar, but his well-known world still brings surprises to him.
The highly developed Earth race governs the series of unexpected events in Arkanar. The main hero starts his new mission in co-operation with Earth forces. The agent gains access to incredibly advanced technologies. In his native underdeveloped world, he almost becomes a God.
How will it end?


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From my personal experience, its a fun adventure rpg, quite ambitious for what its trying to achive. Combat is real-time action combat you can drag your sword like in Mordhau or Chivalry and you can also feint (by immediately cancelling an attack with a block, the tutorial doesn't mention this so perhaps its not really a feature lol), you can thefeint to trick the AI to open their up their defense. Do not spam LMB or special attack, they cost stamina and if you run out of stamina get stunned. Blocking will lock you from moving, so it's better to position yourself strategically during 1vX combat. Horse combat is not that great. The mixture of medieval and sci-fi is fun and campy. It plays similar to games like Kingdom Come Deliverance and Gothic in feel. The music is what ever. only the battle music and the main menu music which are notably good. that said for a game that can be playedd for 20+hours it only has about 5 tracks for exploration and non combat encounter music so it gets really repetitive.

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Baron Dupek

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It got some nice ideas like disguise system. Some parts felt unfinished and most supernatural parts (spirits, ghosts and vision) more like an excuse for lack of ideas.
Combat is piss easy - spam attacks and cancel animations with block. Repeat for 30 hours.
 

lukaszek

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Found Gorasul PL
https://archive.org/details/gorasul_pl

Sadly i get black screen on startup, which hangs up my pc so i have to unlog with alt+ctrl+del. Tried fixes from pcgamingwiki and it does not work. :(
Did you got it to work later? On version that i found, i had to use Gorasul_noov.exe instead of Gorasul.exe and then it started. Sadly menu was a bugged mess but you could progress further to character creation, then it crashed on the second page.
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this gem appears to be gaining popularity on dex, yet no mentions on how to resolve technical difficulties of running it on modern rigs.
Even more horrifying, instead of spreading the gospel, I find statements like this one:
Awful BG clone. Not worth playing.
which make me question some of the posters integrity.

Worry not though, its certainly doable to play it well on win11, however steps like those listed in here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Gorasul:_The_Legacy_of_the_Dragon
are not enough.

While I'm not sure whats the minimum number of required steps, I do know that ddraw from dgvoodo doesnt work and is crucial to resolve low framerate.
Anyway here is what I did:
- patch to 1.6
- find noov executable, set compatibility to win xp sp3
- get dgvoodo https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases , copy over D3D8 and D3Dlmm. If you want to use config -> copy over dgvoodo and make sure you run it in admin mode
- get working ddraw https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat and copy it over
this should get you going. I am experiencing random crashes every now and then, ctrl+s for quicksave often.
 

TheDeveloperDude

MagicScreen Games
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I cannot play Dungeons of Kairn!
During battle I cannot use melee attacks.
From manual:
Magic Word of Arms - "Dubuaro" will allow the adventurer
to use a handheld weapon when his turn comes to strike a blow. You
must use one of the Magic Words of Movement to strike in that
direction. Note that the chosen adventurer must have equipped himself
with a weapon while the group rested before he may strike an enemy in
combat with a weapon.

Yes I equipped weapons. They are highlighted. What does "Dubuaro" mean? I am pressing the D key, but nothing happens.

b- shoot bow and
c- cast spell are working.

EDITED: NEVER MIND it is the 'w' key - melee attack
 
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TheDeveloperDude

MagicScreen Games
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BTW, is the full version of Kairn available now? I initially skipped it on my play list due to only the shareware version being available.
I have this version: Fourth release Version 1.2 January 1991
I can make paladin, barbarian and ashigari classes.
But I have found 1 dungeon only so far: a cemetery. (Demo contains only 1 dungeon?)
There are more cities/castles.
 

TheDeveloperDude

MagicScreen Games
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The Aethra Chronicles: Volume One game is from the same developer. Is that a similar turn-based party rpg game?
 

Sotomonte

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TheDeveloperDude

MagicScreen Games
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Do you know similar games? (Wizards Crown, etc)
Nahlakh?

BTW, is the full version of Kairn available now? I initially skipped it on my play list due to only the shareware version being available.


In myabandonware you have all the versions, including the complete one: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/dungeons-of-kairn-3xa
From the manual:
"It is said that only a Ranger wielding the rangers amulet can find his way through the Forest of Afyle"

But any Ranger at any rank? For example Scout, Tracker, Escort, Gallant, Warder?
Or you need a high-level Ranger rank Ranger?
 

TheDeveloperDude

MagicScreen Games
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Do you know similar games? (Wizards Crown, etc)
Nahlakh?

BTW, is the full version of Kairn available now? I initially skipped it on my play list due to only the shareware version being available.


In myabandonware you have all the versions, including the complete one: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/dungeons-of-kairn-3xa
Thanks! I have found the second dungeon!
 

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