Albion 1995

Is it still worth playing?

A space pilot of the 23rd century is stranded on Albion, a planet with two peoples. The Iskai are cat like and build with living plants, the Celts descend from Earth, and the magic of one meets the technology of the other. This 1995 role playing game for MS-DOS, in German first and in English in 1996, was begun for the Amiga by former Thalion staff and moved to the PC when Commodore went under, and it is the spiritual successor to Amberstar and Ambermoon. A party of up to six fights turn based on a grid of five by six squares, and the view is two games in one: the world from above in 2D, and dungeons in real time first person 3D. It leans on narrative and worldbuilding, with almost everything pick up able and characters keeping schedules. The two peoples still make it a game in which a spaceship's pilot learns a world from the cats who were there first.