Arcane Cache: Review by Adrian (my partner in crime at underground game development) to "Nox Archaist", an rather obscure commercial retro CRPG playable on Apple II Hardware.
The biggest highlight of the game is the open world that you will explore during your about forty hours of gameplay. It feels less British than Ultima’s Britannia, and feels slightly less medieval, mostly due to the heavy inclusion of piracy, towns that are not called Britain, and gigantic ships built to cross entire oceans. But, in the best sense of the word, it retains the distinctive quaintness of these old titles. There is a lot of cozyness to be found between old ruins in the middle of deep woods, between small hamlets in which simple people live off the land, all framed by large mountainsides with deep dark castles and towers that hide powerful magic.
