The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Hardcore but good one

Fun game I find myself coming back to every so often. Good story and fun mechanics.

As soon as you click on play it tells you to enter a code that I don't have................ even though this is in my Library...

the AI isn't playing a game. It's playing to curse. It's evil. That's true for the entire internet that uses https:// instead of G:// like I do. I still use a two-bit computer rather than a more complicated and appropriate desktop, etc. [I forget the proper term[ but the games ought to work properly. Instead the AI is abhorrent. I've never seen it more apparent than in this game. Playing against a propaganda piece supported by Daedra [enemies of God & Satan] ought to be entirely admonishable. Isn't there anything the Game Company can do about the https:// situation? These versions of the internet are horrible. A twin-binary system - it's been said its the stupidest, clumsiest computer system ever. I've been to space, bee an intelligencve and security agent using high end computers. This MACHINE is absurd. I cannot recommend the game or STEAM. These systems and their alternative-lineration programming is noteworthy. I got to thumb down every game on this stupid device until the situation improves. THis is ridiculous. Awful. I've played the better versions of these games other Internets. the http & https system is convoluted and innately wrong.

Clearly a crappy phone game that would normally be free to play with paid DLC and other microtransactions. If you like your combat to have exactly 2 options, move or attack, you'll love it. If you want something more interesting than that, look anywhere else really.

Very good one. It's the best book-to-game next to Lonewolf's (which also has a soundtrack btw)

My first entry into the Fighting Fantasy digital games was with the Sorcery! series in my iPod Touch more than a decade ago. These games always scratch an into that I didn't have in me, one that only fantasy settings from the 80's, with their gruesome and weirdly visceral narratives can reach. TWoFM is a weird game to recommend. The first 10 hours I spent with it, I was just plainly frustrated since many of the deaths are just arbitrary and feel plain stupid. When I played Sorcery!, I was unafraid to fail since it was easy to backtrack, try new things, and see what doing things differently could get you, without sacrificing too much replayability (the amount of possible combinations is big enough to warrant multiple playthroughs with both characters). In TWoFM, failing means having to redo a 1-2 hour playthrough, having to deal with the same fights over and OVER and OVER again, which gets very tedious, very fast. Don't get me wrong, the combat mechanics are fun and actually engaging. But when you're just one bad roll of the dice away from losing an hour of progress, you feel kind of deterred to keep trying. However, I can't stop recommending this game to fans of old-school fantasy and, generally, for TTRPG fans. Once past those first 10 gruelling yet very interesting hours, the game loses a lot of its challenge and becomes more exploratory since you know almost nearly every creature's attack patterns, have an overall good feel for the combat system, and know most of the decisions which are worth it and that aren't. Most characters' stories have been interesting enough to keep me going through the Mountain over and over again. Overall, I would recommend you to buy it on sale. It's less than a taco, anyway. It's a shame that they dropped the development of the game so soon after release. It's obvious that the devs were planning on releasing 3 legendary lords and a bunch of additional content, but had to abandon it after it failed to garner enough attention. Hopefully they can return to it later on and finish their planned projects.

Full disclosure, I kickstarted this game, and I love it. I also loved the original book and my copy is falling apart from use. This is a fantastic upgrade and the dwarven forge terrain and figurines style is so great. Some of the fights get repetitive once you've learned the monster move sets so I do wish there was a little more variety, but otherwise this is just perfect.