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Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark

Gameplay is very close to the original gamebook with branching decisions entered by keyboard, except for combat which is handled in a real-time 2D combat interface.

31 December 1984

Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Five Ways Software, released 31 December 1984 on ZX Spectrum.

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What Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark is

Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Five Ways Software and released in 1984. It was published by Arrow Publications. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are Lone Wolf in this adaptation of the classic gamebook, "Flight from the Dark". The Kai monastery has just been destroyed and you play as the last apprentice of the "Kai lords", a group of elite warrior-monks, as you have to race to tell the king of the surprise attack and imminent invasion.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Karateka.

Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Karateka.

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When did Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark come out?
Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark was released on 31 December 1984 for ZX Spectrum.

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