Archmage Rises is an Action, RPG, and Simulation game for PC published by Defiance Game Studio in 2023. Obtain the freedom typically only available in a tabletop role-playing game!
Archmage Rises PC Game 2023 review:
With magic at your disposal, you may write your own tale and see the effects of your choices in real life. Will you save the world or will you obliterate it? Your decision is yours.
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Prepare to immerse yourself in the freedom that you can normally only get out of a tabletop RPG. Empowered with magic, you will create your own story, and experience real consequences from the decisions you make. Will you be the world’s savior . . . or its destroyer? The choice is yours.
Pros of Archmage Rises:
- The World Progresses and Ages – With or without your involvement. Kingdoms rise and fall, towns grow or shrink, monster threats grow and expand. Watch young NPCs grow, marry, bear children, and eventually die, all in one player lifetime.
- Choice, Consequence, Emergent Story – As the world simulates along, your every NPC interaction is factored into it. Killed the inn keeper? The inn will close and his family will hate you. Indiscriminately divorce an NPC? Maybe they’ll send thugs after you out of scorn.
- Realistic Supply-Demand Economy – Towns have primary businesses which consume goods and produce others. Goods travel along road systems through AI traders. Bandits interrupt supply runs and can lead to your favorite brew no longer available in the local tavern. Get involved in trading and starting new businesses, or ignore it entirely.
- Revolutionary Blight System Creates Realistic Quests – A population of giant spiders can establish a nest near a town. Townsfolk will go missing. Over time, it escalates even to the point where the town falls under attack. This affects NPCs, trade, and population unrest. NPCs will be aware of the problem and request your help with it for varying rewards. Don’t act quickly enough? Watch out for AI heroes and rival mages accepting and completing quests too!
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Basic System Requirements:
- OS: Windows 7/10
- Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4 GHz max (Quad Core CPU)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 4GB 1280×768+
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
