Arx Fatalis 2002

Released: June 28, 2002
Genres: Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Platforms: Xbox · PC
Developer: Arkane Studios
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Is it still worth playing?

A prisoner wakes in a cell on a world whose sun has failed, in this 2002 first-person action role-playing game by Arkane Studios for Windows and Xbox. The surface creatures have taken refuge in caverns, where trolls, goblins, dwarves and humans live on separate levels of one huge cave. The goal turns out to be imprisoning the God of Destruction. Spells are cast by drawing rune gestures with the mouse, fifty spells built from twenty runes. There are over twenty weapons, plenty of quests and sub-quests, and events that change with the choices you make. Arkane released the source code in 2011. Casting by hand still makes every fight feel different from picking a spell off a list.