This batch ranges from text-command castle raids to multi-level strategy wars, with plenty of ice, undead, and unruly mercenaries between them.

Aleshar: The World of Ice

In icebound elemental RPG, a character marked by the Spark returns to a snowbound land watched by the Cult of Wisdom. Its overland travel runs in real time, while fights shift to a tactical grid and the five elemental runes can be combined for spells.

Ambush at Sorinor

pausable mercenary skirmishes puts six rival clans, hired squads, and VIP targets at the center of its battles. Recruitment comes under a budget, commands go to groups rather than individuals, and the scenario editor invites a comparison with other custom-map tactics games.

Amulet of Yendor

In text-driven castle expedition, an elf, dwarf, human, or hobbit enters an eight-level castle whose rooms, monsters, traps, and treasure are reshuffled for each quest. The fleeting automatic map and terse commands make the hunt for eight artifacts a good subject for comparing note-taking habits.

Betrayal of the Obsidian Baboon

Seratika BBS adventure takes place in Seratika, a neutral city holding together after a vast war under the eye of the shape-changing Hjenlnath. Race and class combinations, rival guilds, gods, gambling, and optional implants give its terminal-bound world a notably unruly menu of pursuits.

Bones: The Game of the Haunted Mansion

haunted-mansion crawl sends an explorer after the Warlock’s Globe through rooms guarded by skeletons, traps, and cryptic item descriptions. Video RAM and Main RAM chips are needed to reveal rooms on the Bonebuster Mansion Mapper, so compare that constraint with the maps you drew by hand.

By Fire & Sword

baronial fantasy campaign begins with a fledgling baron balancing alliances, territory, vassals, castles, and towns in a pseudo-European realm. Wizards and spells sit alongside the feudal maneuvering; how would you divide attention between diplomacy, expansion, and a battlefield mage?

Caverns of Xaskazien

thirty-level demon descent centers on a lone adventurer pushing through thirty randomized dungeon levels toward the arch-demon Xaskazien. Weapons, armor, and skill choices shape the descent, while traps and changing layouts keep each run from following the same corridors.

Caverns of Zoarre

Zoarre dungeon crawl offers a choice between fighter and sorcerer before sending either into fog-shrouded caverns for gold and relics. Monster encounters can be fought, fled, or approached through parley, and combat can be switched between turn-based and real-time modes.

Cavewars

multi-tier cave strategy spreads its turn-based conflicts across several underground levels, where stairways can become routes for reinforcement or pressure points for an enemy. Eight races, research, unit upgrades, spells, and randomly generated maps make it a natural match for players who enjoy planning more than one front at once.

Which of these would you tackle first: the fading map in the haunted mansion, the randomized castle rooms of Yendor, or a multi-level Cavewars campaign?