• tal@lemmy.today
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    It looks like there were also a bunch of scenarios released for Realmz. I’m trying to remember…I definitely remember playing City of Bywater. I don’t know if I’ve played the other scenarios, though.

    If you haven’t played them and can round them up, might be that you’ve only played about a fraction of the content out for Realmz, if what you’re after is Realmz-like stuff. :-)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realmz

    While new scenarios were released throughout the game’s history, also typically packed along with the game in the next Realmz release, the game ultimately ended up with 13 official scenarios:

    • City Of Bywater (developed alongside Realmz by Tim Phillips)

    I’ve definitely played City of Bywater.

    • Prelude To Pestilence (1995, Sean Sayrs)
    • Assault On Giant Mountain (1995, Tim Phillips)
    • Castle in The Clouds (1995, Jim Foley)

    I seem to recall the above names, though I don’t remember the scenario content, if I did play them. Nothing after this rings a bell at all.

    • Destroy The Necronomicon (1995, Tim Phillips)
    • White Dragon (1996, Jim Foley)
    • Grilochs Revenge (1997, Sean Sayrs)
    • Twin Sands of Time (1999, Sean Sayrs)
    • Trouble in the Sword Lands (1999, Pierre H. Vachon)
    • Mithril Vault (1999, Tim Phillips)
    • Half Truth (2000, Nicholas T. Tyacke)
    • War in the Sword Lands (2000, Pierre H. Vachon)
    • Wrath of the Mind Lords (2002, Pierre H. Vachon)

    EDIT: There’s also apparently a pretty-inactive Realmz subreddit at /r/Realmz. No GOG Realmz release either, though. Some abandonware sites appear to have it.

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      I’ve definitely played City of Bywater.

          Prelude To Pestilence (1995, Sean Sayrs)
          Assault On Giant Mountain (1995, Tim Phillips)
          Castle in The Clouds (1995, Jim Foley)
      

      Same. I also definitely played City of Bywater, and I know I had both Assault on Giant Mountain and Castle in The Clouds (this one was giants right?)

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        I’m stretching my memory too far. I remember the City of Bywater world map, but I can’t even remember the world maps for the other scenarios, if I indeed played them.

        This abandonware site appears to have a Windows release:

        https://www.myabandonware.com/game/realmz-bce

        I have no idea what scenarios might be included, and I’m always a little leery about running binaries from random sites outside of a VM — abandonware can be a vector for malware — so I don’t know if I should recommend using it, but it’s there. There are serial numbers to activate what looks like all the listed scenarios in a comment there, so maybe it comes with all of them.

        The company appears to have been defunct for the past 20 years, so I suspect that there isn’t going to be any legitimate re-release.

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          This abandonware site appears to have a Windows release:

          Yeah I downloaded it while we were chatting. I’m going to try and get it running after work.