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Blades of Avernum

Blades of Avernum is a fantasy role-playing system that includes four follow-up adventures to the Avernum series as well as a scenario creator for users to make their own.

17 March 2004

Blades of Avernum is an adventure developed by Spiderweb Software, released 17 March 2004 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Blades of Avernum is

Blades of Avernum is an adventure game developed by Spiderweb Software and released in 2004. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Nethergate.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blades of Avernum is a fantasy role-playing system that includes four follow-up adventures to the Avernum series as well as a scenario creator for users to make their own.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Avernum series

Blades of Avernum is the eighth of 9 entries we hold in the Avernum series. It arrived 2 years after Avernum 3. The next entry was Avernum: The Complete Saga in 2013.

See all 9 Avernum games in release order →

What it launched against

Blades of Avernum launched on 17 March 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004.

Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2, Unreal Tournament 2004.

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When did Blades of Avernum come out?
Blades of Avernum was released on 17 March 2004 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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