King Of Dragon Pass, best RPG/Strategy game ever

[Heliopios]

If you're an older gamer, you probably remember a time when games weren't all animation and special effects. There was once a time when games were simply pictures with associated narratives, and they thrived. King Of Dragon Pass is a game made in 1999, and reaches back to those roots.

You start out with a village of clanmates, who just left their homeland to escape a tyrant. Pretty typical storyline, if you don't count the effect your choices have during the game, such as if a child gets his parents murdered, and that child vows revenge, you can subsequently allow him to leave and take his revenge, he can then come back to you, 30+ years later, a god of a man, and request your help which are all told in illustrated bits randomly, with literally thousands which can happen.

The game pans out epically, I've been playing as a single clan for around 70 years and have seen a child born and taken by other clans, to become a prophet of events which help you. The game takes goddamn forever to win, since you must kill/ subdue all of the other clans. You can also explore the entire area of 'Dragon Pass', which is extremely dangerous, I can't list how many extremely strong magicians and leaders I've lost  and then found 10+ years later as skeletons and corpses.


Basically, if you like a sim/rpg/adventure game, this will tickle your fancy like it has mine.



You can download the trial here, but if you really want to have the experience, you must download it elsewhere. It's not abandonware so I can't link to any sites.

[zl]

I'll check out the trial - didn't check the spoilers but I'm interested anyway

[buttplug]

Gonna try it!

[zl]

Seems like a cool game to me - when I have extra money to spend I might go for it