Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss 1992

Is it still worth playing?

Blue Sky Productions' 1992 action role playing game, set inside the Great Stygian Abyss, a large cave system holding the remnants of a failed utopian civilization. You are the Avatar, the protagonist of the Ultima series, trying to find and rescue a baron's kidnapped daughter. It is played in first person in a 3D environment, one large dungeon on many levels. A freely moving mouse cursor works on the world and on an icon based interface, with Look to examine objects and Fight to ready your weapons. Progress is nonlinear, so areas, puzzles and quests come in any order. Along the way, an automatic map records what you have seen and takes your own notes, and skills from axe use to bartering to lock picking grow as you fight, quest and explore. A dungeon you map and annotate yourself still rewards the careful explorer today.