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Created by Neil Cross. With Jim Sturgess, Agyness Deyn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Derek Riddell. Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are forced to work together in a pre-apocalyptic criminal world. Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager is a fantasy RPG and sequel to Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, developed and published by Strategic Simulations in 1994 for DOS only.It’s an officially licensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. Dark Sun: Shattered Lands The Dark Sun world of Athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousand-year-old sorcerer-kings. Your party begins as slaves in the city of Draj, destined to die as gladiators in the Arena. You must find a way to escape into the hostile wilderness, join with other escaped slaves and create. Alador In the wastelands east of the Mekillot Mountains blooms a desert rose. The village of Alador was founded by a templar who in a rare moment of insight discovered compassion for those who toiled under him. Those slaves he freed have created a new life for themselves in Alador. Origin/History Alador is a slave village founded about eight years before the downfall of.

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  1. Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
4.5 / 5 - 78 votes

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Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is an innovative RPG set in the post-apolocalyptic world of AD&D Dark Sun universe. The game broke new grounds in several ways, such as introducing phased combat, a friendly user interface, the addition of adventure-style inventory-based puzzles, and the intriguing magical discipline of psionics. Unfortunately, it was released prematurely, with many game-crippling bugs and touted but unfulfilled features that were not fixed until months after the initial release... by which time it was already removed from most stores' shelves.

Shattered Lands takes place in and around the city-state of Draj, ruled by the sorcerer-king Tectuktitlay, in the planet known as Athas. After many thousands of years, powerful mages found ways to gain power through draining the planet's vitality. These evil wizards caused the sun to turn into a raging crimson fireball, which transformed the once-fertile lands into endless deserts. The creatures of Athas were twisted by the free use of magic, and now the only stable concentrations of humanity are in tightly-controlled city-states. These kings call themselves gods, rule through a religious organization known as the templars, and enslave many citizens. Your party comprises of four slaves, and your immediate goal is to escape to one of the villages founded by escaped slaves. The game begins in an arena, where you are forced to fight hideous beasts to the death.

As an AD&D game, Shattered Lands faithfully follows concepts and rules that AD&D fans will recognize, such as die roll to determine starting statistics, THAC0, alignment, and multi-classing rules. The plot is standard fantasy fare, but with many non-interruptible interludes that happen within the game screen to move the story along. To its credit, though, the designers of Shattered Lands boldly introduced a novel mouse-based interface that is reminiscent of point-and-click adventure games, but work extremely well here (despite the fact that sometimes it is frustratingly difficult to select different action icons when your characters are obscured).

The game also sets a new standard in graphics and spell (or psionics in the game's context) effects, although it is still limited by the somewhat awkward bird's-eye-view perspective that is left over from Al Quadim: The Genie's Curse, the engine from which Shattered Lands was based on. The game's phased turn-based combat is also very well implemented: although the enemies cannot attack while it is your 'turn' to issue command, you only have a minute or so to give orders to your party, after which the computer's turn will begin automatically. This adds a sense of urgency to the game without discouraging RPG purists who are not arcade experts, and forces you plan quickly and effectively.

Overall, Shattered Lands is an admirable, bold attempt by SSI to make a brand new RPG that breaks the Gold Box mold. It has many weaknesses, such as limited inventory slots, poor writing, weak automap, and frustrating drawn-out battles with impossible odds near the end of the game that are more boring than fun. Still, the game deserves a second chance by AD&D fans as one of the most innovative titles of its time, with a new premise and some very interesting monsters.

Just make sure you grab the latest patch from Games Domain or The Patches Scroll (see our Links page) before you start the game.

Review By HOTUD

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Krondore2018-08-132 points

Loved this game back in the day, spent untold amounts of time playing it.
Shame they don't do a remake, like someone else put, with just up to date graphics.
Some of these old style org games would be amazing to play with modern graphics, but not change the game at all except graphics.
Daggerfall would be another one to do a remake on

George2017-01-09-4 points

Need Help Getting Game Running

DBadger2016-12-042 points

I believe it would be easy enough, though time consuming, for someone to program with the Neverwinter Nights engine. Anyone up for it? :)

greengo2016-08-121 point

I, too loved this game. had forgotten how complex it was. I? would also like to see a remake, solving a few problems besides poor graphics. the inventory menu was kinda hard and unnecessarily unwieldy. why you couldn't just grab something without having to confirm every time, i don't know, and getting something out of a chest or transfering to a chest could be hard especially from one chest to another. Game play was easy, but likewise odd. like when you go into battle, why was 'fight' not the first option? Casting spells was fairly involved and so was using items and fruit. My biggest problem is that when you sold an item that turns out you needed later, their was no way to get it back. The person you sell it to does not stock it, no does it turn up later elsewhere, like at Kel's if you accidentally sell a gem or item you need.
Aside from the clunkyness of the game, it was the only one I remember finishing completely and enjoyed every minute of it.

bubbleduck2016-05-190 point

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I loved this game as a kid, I was someone could develop an Android version surely smartphones can run a game such as this in original design. But like some dude said above - it would be mad to see it in today's graphics. I love this game never finished it was so hard when I was a kid. Found somewhere online where you can play it on IE but I couldn't save it :( hours down the drain. Here is somewhere to play old consoles online - I've been revisiting Atari Lynx Scrap Yard Dog - never got to finished that as a kid and its still frigging hard now.

Muhammad2015-07-107 points DOS version

Answers to copy protection:
Word # Page # Line # Begins with Answer
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1st 03 02 H honor
1st 04 13 S slaver
7th 07 03 G game
3rd 09 03 C choose
2nd 10 06 H humans
5th 12 04 B box
4th 13 04 L large
3rd 14 01 P pouches
2nd 15 02 P power
3rd 19 06 S stronger
5th 21 10 C class
2nd 26 04 A armor
3rd 27 03 W water
5th 27 08 S share
1st 28 14 L level
6th 29 01 E every
7th 33 05 F foes
8th 35 02 A agile

DSun2015-04-19-1 point DOS version

after the sewers, wath word?

GUY2015-04-160 point DOS version

Sun

Great Game!

Monolith2014-06-229 points DOS version

Wow, nearly 20 years since I played this one. I wish someone would redo this game pretty much untouched except to update to modern graphics. Such an awesome game! Remember as a kid when this first came out I was so absorbed I stayed up all weekend without barely a bathroom break from the game. Still one of the best games to date... and Baldur's Gate games, among a couple others, but that came a bit later :-)
Have to admit, the graphics may be a bit sad now, but the combat, game mechanics, and entertaining NPCs and their stories remain undiminished.

Shining_Autist2014-05-234 points DOS version

11/10 would have intercourse with this game

Steeeeeeeve2014-05-182 points DOS version

One of my all time favorites. Spent many hours on this game as a kid. The huge open world astounded me. Wish there were not games like this and Wake of the Ravager.

CB2014-05-141 point DOS version

One of the best RPGs I've ever played. It is like a DOS version of Skyrim or Oblivion in the sense that there is a story you can progress at your leisure, or you can just run around and explore a bunch of side quests. Unique world is a bonus.

Church2014-05-142 points DOS version

one of the best games...ever...of all time

Raekuul / Pokota2014-05-051 point DOS version

I see the comments from fudge u and from boo and I'm like 'you kids and your newfangled WINE compatabilities! In my day we ran things in DOS and we liked it!'
Heck, I still like this game.

fudge u2014-04-28-12 points DOS version

pile of bs.program is bullsh*t tutorial is bullshit, simply bullsh#i from beginning to end

Boo2014-02-26-1 point DOS version

What computer specs does it need? 1993? Will it run on Win 7 or 8?

Sajeer kv2014-01-300 point DOS version

Let me try !

kallak2013-12-310 point DOS version

Cool

NCHermit2013-11-100 point DOS version

I am wandering through the halls of Abandonware and I am grinning. All of these games bring back memories.
I was playing this game when it was NEW!
And I will continue to play it now.

ooohyeah2013-11-031 point DOS version

hey what is the word you type in to keep playing after the sewers?

Fershizzle2013-08-090 point DOS version

Fantastic Game!
For more details:
Checkout GameHorder's play through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8GWhOYzyoM&list=PLB3BD10504C58D2B3
and Mamboi's gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG6FZsqm4q0
May Dark Sun: Shattered Lands live forever! :)

egregiousminds2013-05-270 point DOS version

A great sadness would be that this game could be forgotten into obscurity. may that never happen.

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Kenneth1082013-05-150 point DOS version

Been looking for this game forever!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you abandoneware!!!!!

Cruor2013-04-21-1 point DOS version

Awesome game. Game works.

krins2012-10-190 point DOS version

One of my favorite things about this game is how open ended it is. You can play any way you would like, and the emphasis is on exploring as opposed to a single linear quest.

Licurg2012-04-270 point DOS version

Excellent RPG, way ahead of it's time. I highly recommend it.

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  1. Dark Earth

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4.38 / 5 - 21 votes

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One of the few action/adventure games that truly succeeded in appealing to fans of both camps, Krisalis' highly underrated Dark Earth is a great game that makes up for the short length with captivating artwork, a smooth interface that works well for both combat and adventure, and a very interesting and unique sci-fi/fantasy combination storyline.

Games Domain puts it well in the thorough review of this underdog: 'Dark Earth, the world's first 'realtime' adventure, attempts to redefine the genre by replacing killer puzzles with arcade-like combat sequences. On one hand, this decision has created a far more open-ended game and has eliminated the frustration typically associated with hard puzzles. On the other hand, it makes the game somewhat short -- fully exploring this game is the work of days, not weeks. Fortunately, the story and setting are both excellent, and the combat system is fairly entertaining as well. All in all, the game is great fun while it lasts, and its appeal depends more upon your taste in storylines than preferred game style.

350 years in the future, the world has become completely unrecognizable following an encounter with a swarm of rogue meteorites. Centuries of sun-obscuring clouds have thrown the land into a perpetual icy twilight, leaving little more than strange, twisted creatures to roam the land. Dark Earth begins in the Stallite Sparta where Arkhan, member of the city militia, lives out a fairly routine existence. Not long into the game, fate places him in the midst of an assassination attempt -- a plot he is able to foil only at great personal cost: in saving the ruler of his city, he finds himself exposed to an insidious poison. With the venom consuming both mind and body, Arkhan must search Sparta for a cure even as he slowly transforms into a creature of darkness. Along the way, his newly acquired monstrous powers will come in handy as he works also to stop an evil plan to extinguish the source of the Stallite's light.

It cannot be overemphasised how well the graphics bring to life the detailed setting of this adventure. I've played games with higher technical standards (resolution, animation, colour depth, etc.) but precious few which can match Dark Earth's overall artistic quality. Throughout the game, backgrounds, objects and characters blend smoothly together to create scenes which are unique and strangely beautiful. The visuals have something of a Renaissance / Middle-eastern feel to them, depicting as they do a society somewhere between medieval times and an industrial age. Gadgetry, seemingly borrowed from the notes of Da Vinci, shares scenes with the bladed weapons of antiquity and scattered artefacts from 'before'. More so than many games, this conveys well the look and feel of a truly foreign culture; and gives curious players plenty of incentive to explore their surroundings.

Dark Earth is something of a rarity among adventures: a story based game. There aren't all that many puzzles here, and those you discover aren't particularly difficult. Dialogue, the occasional cut-scene, and a bit of combat must instead carry the game. Keeping with an emphasis on storyline, many of the sub-quests and scenes in Dark Earth are optional. With the exception of a few 'main-quest' segments, it is entirely up to the player to decide where to go, what to investigate, and ultimately, how the story unfolds.

Kalisto calls their creation a 'realtime' adventure, and in a way, this is exactly what it is. For one thing, time is the game's basic limiting factor and resource. Arkhan's poison works constantly, and will eventually cause you to lose the game. As a resource, time helps you survive battles. By drawing upon your monstrous side, you can achieve special attacks and regeneration -- at the cost of aggravating the poison and reducing your remaining gametime. In this way, combat becomes something of a puzzle, and damage avoidance an important skill to cultivate. It also rewards players who take the time to explore their surroundings: healing items can reduce your dependence upon the costly regeneration ability.

Further enhancing the 'realtime' concept, various events seem keyed to an internal clock. In this game, it's entirely possible to miss things simply by failing to be in the right place at the right time. My usual strategy for timed adventures is to save the game, carefully explore, then reload using my ill-gotten knowledge to meet objectives quickly. In this game, however, you can save progress only in specific locations, resulting in some fairly extensive 'scouting missions'.

Dark Earthwas a lot of fun, and I count myself lucky to have been given a chance to review it. Were it not for its lack of serious puzzles (and the ending), I would have considered awarding a GDR Silver. Its brevity makes it a difficult title to recommend; but, longevity tends to be a problem with adventures, and not every game is as entertaining or replayable as this one.

Fans (who aren't completely set on puzzles) should strongly consider this game -- the detailed setting and original artwork alone probably make it worth its price. For others, this is the rare adventure who's story sells the package, and probably has sufficiently universal appeal to warrant purchase at bargain-bin prices.'

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RuThaN2021-02-17-3 points

Overrated, static camera nightmare, bad adventure like story and puzzle solutions.

pc gamer832020-11-160 point

wonderful game a must play

pukebag2019-09-01-1 point

It keeps saying that I already have the game installed. Guess what.....I DON'T!!!!

BIJAN AMIRI2019-08-040 point

really impressive and nostalgic game for me.six month i was engaged to live and path through dark_land.it was interesting that when i found the way to enter the dark land by jumping into the river instead of passing the bridge!.thanks for making this great game.the best gameplay experience with strange,dreamy places and complicated characters.never forget it.

NUTS OF RAMBO2019-05-24-2 points

so. in order to get this game working in windows 10 u need to download virtual box. install windows xp. find the crack wich is not in this file. its in this page https://www.oldpcgaming.net/dark-earth-review/ create an iso of the crack files with imgburn. and copy paste those files into the game root directory. your wellcome. this game is worth it.

lucaster2019-03-312 points

This game is such a gem, thank you so much for preserving it!

Eme2019-01-300 point

Não estou conseguindo estalar no WIN 2008....pode me ajudar;;;;

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Geras2019-01-302 points

Lovethe game

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