Hey all!

I'm looking for a Role playing game from the 90's no real idea when exactly. I rather think it was in the second half.

Okay this is what i remember:
You start with a group of fighters some are good at melee some are good at magic
The setting is medieval and fantasy is mixed in.
The map is shown from a fixed position looking down on your group as 1 grid space, the whole map is girded you walk around get random encounters and go into towns or dungeons.
There are specific places for certain monster types like There is an Island with Bugs (Cockroaches or something)
A mountain with slimes with different colors and so on
For each of these places there is alweyes a boss witch can be killed and if so the menace is gone from that region. And the townsfolk knows about it.
There are 2 planes 1 normal earth like and 1 underworld like.
I remember there being a "Tower of Time" mentioned on some occasion.
The fights happen in turn based combat on a grid map. monsters can take more then 1 grid slot. Bosses are HUGE :)

The game was only a Demo so i could never play it thru.

if you have any idea what this may be please give me a post :)

With great Regards:
Nightrood

Just so you know, I don't think you're being ignored. I just think nobody really has any idea what game it might be. These threads are usually rife with suggestions, so I think the complete absence of replies signifies an absence of ideas. Your description certainly rings no bells with me.

Some of the things you talk about make me think of Geneforge 1, but I don't think it's that.

Doesn't ring a bell but it sounds like a GOG :)

DOS or Windows?

It sounds like some weird mix of Geneforge and Act Raiser lol.

Somehow it sounds more like early 90's than second half. Do you think it might have been a shareware/indie title? How does it compare to better known turn-based RPGs? Do you know any that are kind of similar to it?

Do you remember how the inventory was organized (e.g. more like a list of words or something with icons)? Were the grids always visible on the map, were there any other GUI elements apart from it, any character portraits or character name window, any 3D views, were towns shown in the same way as wilderness and dungeons, was it a pure top-down view, showing the characters' heads only, or at an angle that also showed part of their bodies, or were they represented by 2D sprites showing the whole body, did it have cutscenes, voiceovers, how was the quality of graphics, sound and music, was it colorful, dark, simplistic or detailed etc.? How did the turn-based combat work, did it have a lot of options, was there a separate grid for the combat or did it happen on the same map as exploring? Did you play the game with mouse or keyboard? I take it the combat was mostly random hack and slash and story-telling was secondary? Were there any quests besides killing monster bosses? The more you remember the better the chances to identify it. :)

I hope you figure out what the game is, as it sounds like something I might like to play myself!

Sadly I don't think I'll be much help, as the game could well predate me.

Was it some JRPG like Final Fantasy or more like Diablo or Baldur's Gate?

Haven't played in years but - Darklands?

Windows definetly

I was thinking that from some of his description, but the rest doesn't fit... I have no idea.

well I'm not totally sure about anything else, I really don't know if the game made it to be a full game or not it felt like a demo or a shareware i got it from a CD witch came from a magazine, it was limited by not letting you get past certain points or get into some towns even if you could get there.
I remember that the game had a full 2d Top Down view no exception, the grid was visible all the time i think.
Don't remember any cut-scenes or voices but it was an undone game so no real help there. You could only see the characters portrait all the time no animation.
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The fight placement was different from normal RPG-s as you started at the bottom and the other party on top of screen, there could be a lot of enemy-s. The fights took place in a different grid from world map it usually had the same look as the grid had witch we stepped on when the fight started.

As i wrote i remember there being a "tower of time" something to do with the endgame i guess but it was unapproachable, so i don't really know, there were only big quests, don"t remember any small side-quests along the way but i wasn't that good at English back then so it might be that i didn't really understand ;)


Also I'm very grateful for your help guys it is bugging me for years now to find out what the game was, no real idea why I fixate on this game tho. :)

With Regards:
Nightrood
It isn't that it seems, thanks tho :)

I have played damn near every PC RPG since 96 or so and none of that rings a bell. Sorry.