The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing game similar to Wizardry games, with first-person exploration of pseudo-3D maze-like environments, and turn-based combat against randomly appearing enemies.

Tags: Fantasy, Party based, Physical Release, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, MS-DOS, NES, PC-98, ZX Spectrum  

Year: 1985

The Destiny Knight is the second installment in the Bard's Tale series, and a sequel to Tales of the Unknown. Like its predecessor, it is a fantasy role-playing game with first-person exploration of a pseudo-3D world and turn-based battles against randomly appearing enemies.

Tags: Fantasy, Party based, Physical Release, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, NES, PC-98  

Year: 1986

Thief of Fate is the third installment in the Bard's Tale series, and a sequel to The Destiny Knight. It is similar to its predecessors, being a first-person fantasy role-playing game in which the player explores maze-like pseudo-3D towns, dungeons, and wilderness areas.

Tags: Fantasy, Party based, Physical Release, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, PC-98  

Year: 1988

This early Westwood title is a turn-based RPG set on the surface of Mars. You're a stranded space jockey in a rugged frontier settlement on Saturn's moon, Titan. Your one chance to get off this ice cube is to assemble a team and find... a lost city!

Tags: Party based, Physical Release, Sci-fi, Turn-based combat  

Platforms: Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS  

Year: 1988

Play Keef the Thief, a promising young thief who finds himself on the outskirts of the Mercon the Merchant City. Considering the penalty of thievery is the removal of certain body parts, our young hero must be careful in his profession and ultimately (among others) train himself to access and steal from the city treasury.

Tags: Adventure, Fantasy, Single Character  

Platforms: Amiga, Apple IIGS, MS-DOS  

Year: 1989

Black Crypt is a first-person perspective 3D dungeon exploration game similar to the Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder series.

Tags: Fantasy, Party based, Physical Release, Real-time combat  

Platforms: Amiga  

Year: 1992