Category description: RPGs have been a staple of PC gaming since the early days. Similar to adventure games, RPGs primarily differ in their emphasis on stats, leveling, and character building. The Ultima and Wizardry games were early favorites, and countless others have challenged players in fantasy, sci-fi, and real-world settings.
Rogue
Views: 39,9921986FreewareRole Playing (RPG)
Micheal Toy, Glenn Wichman, & Kenneth Arnold
The original "Roguelike"! It may have primitive graphics (ASCII), and no sound, but it's still quite enjoyable. People … VIEW
Rogue Clone IV
Views: 10,2641986FreewareRole Playing (RPG)
Timothy C Stoehr & the Regents of the University of California
Rogue Clone IV is "an open-source reproduction of everybody's favorite role-playing game: Rogue." Originally created as … VIEW
Rooms of the Abyss
Views: 8,1311993Full versionRole Playing (RPG)
Martin Binder and Damon Lichtenwalner
Rooms of the Abyss is a basic first-person perspective dungeon crawling game. Your quest is to ... well there's a long … VIEW
Search for Freedom, The
Views: 11,8311995SharewareRole Playing (RPG)
Howard Feldman
Clearly a lot of work has gone into The Search for Freedom. The author has intended it to incorporate the best of his … VIEW
Secret of Cooey, The
Views: 1,8711998FreewareRole Playing (RPG)
Darkness Ethereal
The Secret of Cooey is a simple but entertaining RPG game with some humor thrown into the mix. The author mentions it … VIEW
Shadow Knight
Views: 6,2861994SharewareRole Playing (RPG)
Moretech Software
Shadow Knight is the kind of game a lot of young aspiring game developers made, perhaps in QuickBasic, back in the early … VIEW
Shadowcaster
Shadowcaster is a game with an interesting concept that was perhaps overshadowed by the title with the bigger name and … VIEW
Shadowkeep 1 - The Search
Views: 12,5401993SharewareRole Playing (RPG)
Magic Lemon Software
Shadowkeep is a very old-school 3D-ish RPG in the vein of Dungeon Hack or the Might & Magic series or any other 3D … VIEW
Shape Shifter
Views: 9,2441992SharewareRole Playing (RPG)
Jeff Kintz
Shape Shifter is an RPG by Jeff Kintz (aka J. Kintz) and one of his earliest known games; as such, although it includes … VIEW
Silmar
Views: 8,9811990SharewareRole Playing (RPG)
Jeff Mather
Silmar is a roguelike RPG using tiled graphics. There are a large number of character classes to choose from, including … VIEW
