Archon
Rating: 79.2
Amiga CPC AppleII 8-bit C64 DOS FM7 Mac PC88 PC X1 ZX

Archon

Released: Nov 1, 1983
Series:
Archon
Genres:
Card & Board Game Strategy Turn-based
Themes:
Crafting & Gathering Fantasy Romance Warfare
Perspectives:
Bird view / Isometric
Game Modes:
Multiplayer Single player
Description from Steam STEAM

You're awakened in the middle of the night for an emergency meeting in your war room. A virus is spreading on Odyssa. If it breaks containment and reaches the rest of the galaxy, the casualties will be innumerable. The problem? Odyssa is a key mining planet for nitrium, the lifeblood of the galaxy. Will you eradicate the population of Odyssa to resume mining efforts or will you try to rescue as many survivors as you can?

You are the Archon, and this burden is yours.

  • There Are No Right Answers, Only Consequences: Navigate through complex branching encounters and heavy moral conundrums where each choice comes with an associated resource or human cost.

  • Manage, Prepare, Act: Take constant inventory of your empire's holdings via resource management indicators, intelligence briefings, and direct messages to ensure you're best equipped to handle the growing unrest within your empire.

  • They're All Pawns On Your Board: Romance, persuade, or antagonize over twenty human and alien NPCs that inhabit the galaxy, each with their own goals, motivations, and personalities. Build the web of your future or get caught in its creation.

  • Placate Your People's Qualms, Or Don't: Once a quarter, open your court to the public. Meet with your constituents face-to-face and listen to their emotionally charged pleas as a result of your decisions. Offer them aid or dismiss their petitions—as is your discretion.

  • Define Your Humanity: Through a mixture of galaxy-wide laws, technological paths, and planet-shattering decisions, shape what the future of your empire becomes with one of over a dozen combined endings. Create a utopia of personal freedoms or an isolated faction ruled by religious dogma... or die trying.

  • YOU Are The Archon: Choose from nine different male and female character images that best represent you. Select your Archon's history, providing unique dialogue options and starting stats for your next playthrough.

After centuries of civil war, resources are scarce, tensions remain high, and humanity is crawling out of self-imposed darkness. The warring political houses have agreed to peace, but schemes and plots threaten to unravel everything from within the Empire.

Technologically superior alien governments encroach on your borders, each bringing their own demands and desires. The people look to you, the Archon, to define humanity's place among the stars. Will you usher your empire into a new age of prosperity or plunge civilization back into the cold darkness of space.

Description from IGDB IGDB

Archon: The Light and the Dark was a game developed by Free Fall Associates which loosely modeled the game of Chess, with a number of additions to the gameplay. It was programmed by Anne Westfall, and released originally for Atari 8-bit computers in 1983. It was quickly ported to a number of different systems, and was well-received.

Storyline IGDB

Archon is loosely based after the game of chess, but with the added trait that pieces do not simply kill other pieces-when an individual piece attempts to kill an opposing player's piece, a battle screen ensues, and a fight occurs. Generally, but not always-stronger pieces are able to overcome weaker pieces. Fights can also result in double-kills, where each piece involved in the battle is killed. Other additions to the game include special abilities held by certain pieces, as well as a Spellcaster piece, which acts as the leader of each side.

Basic Info
Release Date: November 1, 1983
IGDB Rating: 79.2/100 (29)
Rating Count: 29
IGDB ID: 5539
Additional Information
IGDB Rating: 79.2/100 (29 votes)
Release Date: November 1, 1983
IGDB ID: 5539
Series: Archon
Платформы 12
Amiga
CPC
AppleII
8-bit
C64
DOS
FM7
Mac
PC88
PC
X1
ZX
Genres 3
Card & Board Game Strategy Turn-based
Themes 4
Crafting & Gathering Fantasy Romance Warfare
Player Perspectives 1
Bird view / Isometric
Game Modes 2
Multiplayer Single player
Developers
Free Fall Associates

No description available

Publishers
Ariolasoft

No description available

Bullet-Proof Software

No description available

Electronic Arts

No description available

Keywords
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