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PC

Game

Castle of the Winds

Released: Dec 31, 1994

Series:

Castle of the Winds

Genres:

Roguelike / Roguelite Role-playing (RPG) Turn-based

Themes:

Fantasy Procedural Generation

Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes:

Single player

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Description from Steam STEAM

Castle of the Winds is a classic early Windows roguelike. Set in a world inspired by Norse mythology, players explore procedurally generated dungeons near a quiet village, battling monsters, discovering magical items, and unraveling the mystery of an ancient evil. Castle of the Winds became a formative introduction to roguelikes for an entire generation of PC players, and remains a fondly remembered gem of the Windows 3.x era.

As a faithful port from the original source, you can expect:

Amazing 16 color pixel art! State of the art effects from 1989!

Hand crafted town levels and procedurally generated dungeons!
Dozens of magic spells to learn! Infinite magic items to find!
A drag and drop inventory interface that was novel at the time (mice were new back then).
A keyboard interface that supports both the numeric keypad and the classic rogue movement keys.

A classic Windows Help File for documentation, even though I had to recreate the help engine myself.

Seriously, this is all about nostalgia. We did add support for Steam achievements and Cloud Saves, but if you're expecting 3D art, shaders, and particle effects you're in the wrong place!

This version of the game has been lovingly (?) recreated by original developer Rick Saada to run on modern 64 bit Windows environments. It contains both Part 1: A Question of Vengeance and Part 2: Lifthransir's Bane.

Description from IGDB IGDB

Castle of the Winds is a two part graphical adventure game, loosely based on fantasy role playing games, and drawing much inspiration from Norse mythology. Part one concerns the character's efforts to avenge the deaths of his or her godparents, who were foully murdered by unknown agents. Along the way, you will do battle with evil monsters, brave deadly traps, and collect the money and magical treasures guarded by dangerous foes. As the story unfolds, the character will also learn of his or her mysterious past, and the legacy left by the character's long dead father.

Wikipedia Description WIKIPEDIA

The game differs from most roguelikes in a number of ways. Its interface is mouse-dependent, but supports keyboard shortcuts (such as 'g' to get an item). Castle of the Winds also allows the player to restore saved games after dying. The game favors the use of magic in combat, as spells are the only weapons that work from a distance. The player character automatically gains a spell with each experience level, and can permanently gain others using corresponding books, until all thirty spells available are learned. There are two opposing pairs of elements: cold vs. fire and lightning vs. acid/poison. Spells are divided into six categories: attack, defense, healing, movement, divination, and miscellaneous. Castle of the Winds possesses an inventory system that limits a player's load based on weight and bulk, rather than by number of items. It allows the character to use different containers, including packs, belts, chests, and bags. Other items include weapons, armor, protective clothing, purses, and ornamental jewellery. Almost every item in the game can be normal, cursed, or enchanted, with curses and enchantments working in a manner similar to NetHack. Although items do not break with use, they may already be broken or rusted when found. Most objects that the character currently carries can be renamed. Wherever the player goes before entering the dungeon, there is always a town which offers the basic services of a temple for healing and curing curses, a junk store where anything can be sold for a few copper coins, a sage who can identify items and (from the second town onwards) a bank for storing the total capacity of coins to lighten the player's load. Other services that differ and vary in what they sell are outfitters, weaponsmiths, armoursmiths, magic shops and general stores. The game tracks how much time has been spent playing the game. Although story events are not triggered by the passage of time, it does determine when merchants rotate their stock. Victorious players are listed as "Valhalla's Champions" in the order of time taken, from fastest to slowest. If the player dies, they are still put on the list, but are categorized as "Dead", with their experience point total listed as at the final killing blow. The amount of time spent also determines the difficulty of the last boss.

About Castle of the Winds

Castle of the Winds is a Roguelike / Roguelite, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based game released in 1994 developed by SaadaSoft that offers Single player gameplay from a bird view / isometric perspective playable on PC (Microsoft Windows) with 0 user ratings averaging 0/100. The game explores themes like Fantasy, Procedural Generation. If you enjoy Castle of the Winds, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: December 31, 1994

IGDB ID: 14446

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Additional Information

Release Date: December 31, 1994

IGDB ID: 14446

Series: Castle of the Winds

Платформы 1

PC

Genres 3

Roguelike / Roguelite Role-playing (RPG) Turn-based

Themes 2

Fantasy Procedural Generation

Player Perspectives 1

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes 1

Single player

Companies

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Developers

SaadaSoft

No description available

Publishers

Epic Games

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Keywords

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