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Set off on a fantastic journey with an 8-bit RPG modeled after the iconic games of the 1980s. Nox Archaist is now available on GOG.COM with a 20% discount that will end on 4th February 2021, 4 PM UTC. Control a party of adventurers who travel the Realm, talk to NPCs in towns and castles, explore dungeons, and fight monsters as you seek to save the world from a terrible danger.

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today is going to be expensive between savage planet and this!
low rated
nvm
Post edited January 28, 2021 by Swissy88
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GOG.com: Release: Nox Archaist
These graphics are evoking childhood memories. Me likes.
This should address my apple ii/ultima itch
The release here is VERY appreciated, thanks.

Phantasie and SKALD: Against the Black Priory (when it's finished) next?
Well.. I spent hundreds of hours on Apple ][ RPGs, and this certainly looks exactly like those did...


Reminds me a lot of Adventure Construction Set.
Does it have a UI scaling mode?
Apparently the game was developed under a real Apple II. The PC version is virtualized? emulated like a real Apple II title or is a proper port?

It is a very exciting release indeed. As it's been said before: Phantasie series and SKALD next, please.
Post edited January 28, 2021 by Gudadantza
This is very impressive considering, but boy.

As someone who was born after the NES, I'm just going to say...enjoy to those who can.

But personally I would have aimed more along the lines of Planet X3 or Attack of the PETSCII Robots.
Is there a no-eye-bleed-filter available? Looking at those screenshots and trailer just gives me a damn headache with its fuzziness/blurriness.
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yogsloth: Well.. I spent hundreds of hours on Apple ][ RPGs, and this certainly looks exactly like those did...
My understanding is that it *is* an Apple ][ RPG; the only fundamental difference between this and the classics is when it was written.

(In particular, if you have a working Apple ][ and a way to put the disk images on actual disks, it should be possible to run it on an actual Apple ][.)
This is like a game equivalent of that "return to monke" meme.
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Mr.Mumbles: Is there a no-eye-bleed-filter available? Looking at those screenshots and trailer just gives me a damn headache with its fuzziness/blurriness.
I don't know, but if you find an Apple 2 emulator with a filter that you would consider acceptable, you could just run the game under that emulator instead of using the provided PC/Mac executable.
Included with the Game
Apple II hard drive and floppy disk images
I was going to say it looked like an apple game from how the colors bleed and if you watch 8bit guy he talks about how apple handles it's graphics in games.