Many races in the game had hitherto been unavailable in any RPG, and high-level spells are very imaginative (these are not your run-of-the-mill Lightning Bolts). The game's immersive atmosphere is achieved by a combination of real-time play (allowing the monsters to attack you by surprise, for example), great sound effects, and depth of role-playing features.
on nights that I wasn't hooked with the game far into the wee hours of the morning, that is. I fondly recall the number of nights I've laid awake in bed, thinking about how to past that blasted mysterious door.
No matter how difficult they are, though, they are very logical and addictive. The puzzles go above and beyond simple "find key to unlock door" puzzles of a typical RPG- they include fiendish riddles, physical puzzles, and inventory-based puzzles that fans of adventure games will appreciate. What Dungeon Master lacks in terms of storyline and writing, it more than makes up for with sheer playability, ingenious puzzles, and incredible atmosphere. It's a dungeon crawl, nothing more, nothing less, played from a first person perspective. There are naturally all sorts of encounters along the way that will enable you to improve your character's strengths and skills, and pocket a few nifty magical items. The premise, which isn't one of the game's strong points, is very tenuous and simple: you control a party of up to four adventurers of various races who must find their way through a 12-level dungeon and defeat its owner (an evil wizard, of course). Few, however, could match the game in sheer addictiveness. At the time when the game was released (whether Amiga, Commodore, ST, or PC), there were many better looking RPGs on the market.
More than anything, the game epitomizes the "gameplay over graphics" tenet that is fading fast in today's preoccupation with 3D accelerated games. Without a doubt one of the best RPGs ever made for any computer, FTL's Dungeon Master is an epic RPG masterpiece that revolutionizes and rejuvenates the genre in much the same way as Baldur's Gate did over a decade later.
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