Instead of confronting them directly, you're constantly forced to use underhanded tactics like camping a doorway and forcing the enemy to march through one at a time or nicking enemies from the edge of your field of vision with area of effect spells to aggro them one at a time rather than confront them all directly. They have more health and resistances, they deal more damage, there's more of them, and they can use tactics that simply aren't available to the player (such as hitting multiple party members with a single normal attack even though you can't). After the first major area the game starts throwing enemy after enemy at you who overwhelmingly outclass your party members in every way. If you expect to heroically rush into dungeons and clear out enemies in a dramatic bloodbath, you're going to be disappointed. Whereas Realmz and practically every other major RPG of the era treated difficulty as a feature, Avernum made it central to the entire experience. What made Exile hard for me to get into growing up compared to Realmz is the same reason A2:CS was hard for me when I picked it up earlier this month- these games are extremely difficult. And while Realmz has yet to get a true update, you can see a lot of these classic gameplay influences continue all the way to modern Avernum games today. They also both were published as shareware for the Mac by Fantasoft in the early nineties. They both licensed out and shared many of the same bare-bones graphics and sprites, which the games made up for by packing in enormous, explorable worlds and hundreds of hours of content. They're both turn based, open world, tactical RPGs that were heavily influenced by Ultima and Dungeons and Dragons.
Even though they were made by different developers, they have a lot of similarities.
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I have a personal attachment to the Exile series because they, along with the game Realmz, served as my introduction to the RPG genre.
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Avernum 2: Crystal Souls is a remake of Avernum 2, which in turn is a remastered update of the original Exile 2: Crystal Souls from 1995.
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