Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep (1994) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep

Dungeon Master established several new standards for role playing and computer games in general. Dungeon Master was a realtime game instead of the traditional turn-based approach that was prevalent until then…

50 25 March 1994

What Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep is

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep is a puzzle game developed by FTL Games and released in 1994. It was published by Interplay Entertainment. It is available on Sega CD, Amiga, DOS and Mac.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dungeon Master established several new standards for role playing and computer games in general. Dungeon Master was a realtime game instead of the traditional turn-based approach that was prevalent until then. Instead of using text-based commands to interact with the environment, players directly manipulated objects and the environment by clicking the mouse in the enlarged first-person view. Abstract Dungeons and Dragons style experience points and levels were eschewed in favor of a system where the characters' skills were improved directly via using them. It also introduced some novel control methods including the spell casting system, which involved learning sequences of runes which…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1994 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep launched on 25 March 1994, within three weeks of Super Metroid, Final Fantasy III, FINAL FANTASY VI and The Elder Scrolls: Arena. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Super Metroid, Final Fantasy III, FINAL FANTASY VI, The Elder Scrolls: Arena.

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