Avernum
A fantasy role-playing game following the adventures of a group of characters cast down from the surface-world Empire into a prison underworld known as Avernum and their interactions with the society that has…
Avernum is a point-and-click developed by Spiderweb Software, released 18 March 2000 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Avernum is
Avernum is a point-and-click game developed by Spiderweb Software and released in 2000. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Nethergate.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You have been cast down into the dark, volcanic pits of Avernum, filled with foul monsters, constant warfare, and thousands and thousands of your fellow prisoners. This is your punishment for not fitting in, for speaking out against the powers that be, for being an inconvenience to the government of the cruel Emperor Hawthorne. You have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the caverns, eventually to die there, forgotten and unmourned. But you need not accept your fate. There are those who wish to struggle against this injustice, who wish to return to the surface world and to fight against tyranny. But first, they need a hero, they need inspiration, and, most of all, they need someone who…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Avernum series
Avernum is the fifth of 9 entries we hold in the Avernum series. It arrived 2 years after Blades of Exile. The next entry was Avernum 2 in 2000.
What it launched against
Avernum launched on 18 March 2000, within three weeks of Thief II: The Metal Age, Soldier of Fortune, MDK2 and Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death.
Released around the same time: Thief II: The Metal Age, Soldier of Fortune, MDK2, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death.
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