Sacred

A shadow of evil has fallen on the kingdom of Ancaria. Now is the time for champions. Orcish hordes and Undead legions, Demonic beasts and mythical Dragons. This is the world of Sacred. A time of legends. Your…

85 19 March 2004

Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy

Sacred is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Ascaron Entertainment, released 19 March 2004 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 37 hrs to finish.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Sacred is

Sacred is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Ascaron Entertainment and released in 2004. It was published by Encore. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sacred is a 2004 action role-playing game developed by the German company Ascaron and published by Take 2 Interactive. It is set on the magical continent of Ancaria, with characters of various races each with their own missions. Two expansion packs were released for the game in 2004 and 2005. In 2008, Linux Game Publishing announced that they would port the game to the Linux operating system.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Sacred holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 109 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 37 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 235.9 hrs, roughly 6.4 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Sacred launched on 19 March 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2, Unreal Tournament 2004.

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