Characters have believable motivations, and the text descriptions that pop up on entering a new city, cavern or dungeon does a brilliant job of setting the scene. Jeff Vogel has always been known for writing his RPGs well, and Avernum is no different. Avernum works a bit like From Software’s Souls games in that regard when the odds are stacked right against you, changing things for the better is a heroic reward. When players act heroic, then, it has a greater resonance. Towns are crumbling, people are struggling to survive eating mushroom flour bread and lizard meat, and everyone’s skin is deathly pale from having not seen sunlight since being banished. The story itself is also a far darker one than most would be used to in the high-fantasy epics that dominate the genre. There’s an entire nation has been built down there as the criminals (rightly or wrongly) struggle to eke out an existence in a very hostile world. Players take control of a party of four heroes who have been banished to a vast underground world for committing a crime against the surface Empire. The game’s premise is more than a little interesting, and quite substantially different to what many RPG fans would have seen before. Like Avadon before it, Avernum is a fairly cheap download and offers a full-featured, epic quest with an intriguing plot and some first-class writing. It’s actually a remake of one of Spiderweb’s most beloved classic RPGs (originally released way back in 1995) with some tweaking to bring it in line with more modern RPG sensibilities, which makes it an ideal starting point for anyone who hasn’t experienced on of Jeff Vogel’s RPGs previously. Avernum: Escape from the Pit HD is the second Spiderweb Software game to hit the iPad and it is a real highlight for RPGs on Apple’s platform.
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