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Ancients: Death Watch

Ancients 1: Death Watch is a mystical fantasy role-playing game, bringing players deep in the underground to do battle with bizarre monsters and find untold riches in and beneath the city of Locklaven. The…

31 December 1993

Ancients: Death Watch is a role-playing (rpg), released 31 December 1993 on DOS.

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What Ancients: Death Watch is

Ancients: Death Watch was released in 1993. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ancients 1: Death Watch is a mystical fantasy role-playing game, bringing players deep in the underground to do battle with bizarre monsters and find untold riches in and beneath the city of Locklaven. The player uses keyboard or mouse to control a party of four explorers who journey together and must work as a team to ward off the many inhabitants of the dungeon. Said dungeon consists of several levels with increasing difficulty and the (relatively) save town above ground in which the characters can shop and heal. Combat in the game is turn-based. Character improvement uses the traditional experience system, but after a level up the guild in Locklaven has to be visited. The game allows for…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Ancients: Death Watch launched on 31 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park and Windjammers.

Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park, Windjammers.

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Ancients: Death Watch was released on 31 December 1993 for DOS.

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