The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Its fun. Maybe not 20 bucks worth of fun, but fun nontheless.

Yay for videogames making reading fun!

Even if you haven't read the Fighting Fantasy game book this game is based on, it's fun.

The game uses a simple turn by turn game system with original art (from the book).

Your states are Skill (ranges from 7-12), Stamina (14-24), and Luck (7-12). In the gamebooks you rolled for them but in this game you pick from warriors with varied preset stats.

Your Skill is compared to the monsters with you each rolling 2 six-sided dice added onto it. The winner hits. But you can also maneuver in such a way that you (or the monster) can strike without the rolling against each other. This can be hella' dangerous.

Stamina is like hit points. Run out of those and you're dead. As you'd expect, every hit will subtract a number of hit points which is often 2 but can vary. Unlike the original system, you can position your warrior during combat and attack in different styles unique to each warrior. Warriors come with multiple styles.These styles affect how far you can strike, the direction, area and how much damage you inflict. Some require a few turns before they can be used again. The monsters you will face also may have some of these styles. There's also other affects of getting or giving hits.

Luck affects situations where you may be able to avoid some nasty situation. Unlike the other stats, Luck goes down 1 pt every time it's used. You have no control over this.

As you successfully end combats you earn points toward new warriors that you can get upon completion or die. And die you will do, A LOT. This game is deceptively simple but it's a challenge to get through without dying. Even with resurrections (you get 3), every combat could get your killed, some a lot easier than others.

There isn't much in terms of sound effects or music but you'll rock out to the orc singing early one. But the graphics are attractive and darn it, this game is addictive. Maybe because after 24 hours, I still haven't gotten through.

Sorry but no. Even with a step-by-step guide that details the exact steps you need to take, it still boils down to RNG luck (clash mechanics in battles) at the end of the day. I love the FnF series, and this is a totally well-done effort, but save your time and money by just watching a walk-through video.
I'm not refunding this to support FnF games in general.

yep, solid dungeon. died on the first try; will definitely try again.
really comfy experience, great arts, thanks to developer!
as a negative: UI is buggy sometimes.

Good

Great game; great memories

This is not a good game for anyone who cares about what is happening in a game. It has a cool look and interesting sounds, but I think far too much time must have been spent on these things and not nearly enough time on developing a well thought out game which makes sense. As someone who has played rpg games for over 30 years I see it through that lens. As an rpg game it is similar to playing with the worlds laziest, most unprepared and most arbitrary dungeon master ever, though he does have some interesting pictures to show you now and then.

This is a fun table top game but its not for me, to many dialogues and the game doesn't flow. Story line, art, the music etc is fantastic and makes for a great classic RPG but unless your into something like this, I wouldn't waste your time on it.

THIS is the fighting fantasy done right . The atmosphere , the interface , the fighting style , the way we can choose character that have some diffrent in skill. for anyone who so into fighting fantasy , you can buy this one and you will not be disappointed.

Old but gold

Its a visual novel with some isometric battle mechanics. Looks cool. Appreciate the text sizing and the music.

This is like those old school choose your own adventure books, only it has a nice boardgame-type 3D visual support, with rather nice graphics and very nice immersive audio. There's several characters to choose from and each has different goals which makes a lot of replayability.

Been a fan of Steve Jackson for decades (Car Wars Illuminati et al.) This is a beautifully rendered D&D style fantasy dungeon crawler where you pick your own adventures and battles as you seek to succeed against the games' DM.