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The Spirit Engine

The Spirit Engine is a 2D, sidescrolling adventure/RPG game with a simple story and a straightforward, innovative real-time combat system. Written as an experimental reaction to old 16bit console RPGs, it took…

7 November 2003

The Spirit Engine is an adventure developed by Mark Pay, released 7 November 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Spirit Engine is

The Spirit Engine is an adventure game developed by Mark Pay and released in 2003. It was published by Natomic Studios. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Multimedia Fusion.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A plot spanning five distinct worlds. Three strangers going about their daily business, find themselves transported and stuck together on a remote island with a small, mute and ghostly spirit. They soon find themselves playing Survivor for real, trying to figure out what they should do as unfriendly creatures, bounty hunters and sinister forces chase them across the world, from misty, haunted forests and snowy mountain-tops to arid, magic soaked sand-dunes and skyscrapers.
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

The Spirit Engine launched on 7 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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When did The Spirit Engine come out?
The Spirit Engine was released on 7 November 2003 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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