Akalabeth - World of Doom! Reviews

Not bad but not the original Apple II color version

Valour

This is a pretty good port, but it's the black & white PC DOS port and not the original Apple II version. The Apple II game is actually in color whereas the DOS port was in B&W. This also lacks horizontial support forcing you to play in a small vertical posistion which is difficult on small iPhone and AppleTV Airplay.

Great game

captin_overkill

Great game, love it. Needs to be updated to ios 11, or cannot be played:(

Great rendition, doesn't work currently

the original ianoid

Please update the game so that we can play it again! It was really well done with the mini keyboard and emulation.

As retro as a game can be!

der_flop

If you're into retro gaming experience, Akalabeth is for you! Really nice look & feel, great attention to detail up to the 'click' sound of the retro keyboard. Nicely done, and pure nostalgia on my iPhone! (plus I think it's the original screen resolution - iPhone 4 might already be too hires for this)

True classic !

Ssunv

It's nice work. I like classic keyboard sound. Game play is also good. It also provides mini map in dungeon. Pretty helpful. Two thumbs up !

Perfect port of one of the original CRPG's

stutzjon

Wow! I have to say this is a really fantastic port. The key interface system is perfect, providing the keys you need when a certain action is required. It feels like I'm playing the game on an Apple II and not an Iphone. This adds to the feeling of nostalgia and elevates the port to really feeling like the original. The game itself is a really simple RPG. I love these kinds of games having grown up with CRPG's like Bard's Tale, Temple of Asphai, and Phantasy. If you can appreciate this app for what it is, it's definitely worth a download. Kudos to Quantum Toast for such a faithful port.

Minor Bugs

Tai23

Good classic game with one major problem. Occasionally in a dungeon, I will be walking, then all of the sudden I'm stuck in a cooridore with no doors. I have "No secret passages" set to "On". Only solution is to "Restart Game" in menu. :(

Ultima 0, hail Britania!!

TG Miker

Every RPG'er should pay homage to the Ultima series. Thanks for creating this app! Hope to see future Ultima releases!

Excellent, ultima underworld 1+2 next?

Link6746

This is an excellent classic, a wonderful game that keeps you coming back with its random seed based environment generation (hint: there's a full page of "lucky number" to generate the seed with) and simple equipment/food/power concept. Fully recommended and I wait for other FPRPGs by Garriot, such as the Ultima Underworld series and System Shock (though ea owns those- listen up EA!)

Nostalgia

Brewster71

Great app. Reminds me of being a kid again. It used to take my Apple ][ 10 seconds to draw the Balrog on it's screen.