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The ‘Blah’ Fortress
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/15/2021
“Avadon: The Black Fortress” (“Avadon”) is the first game in the third series by married-couple-Indie-developer, Spiderweb Software. Spiderweb has been around since the early 1990s, and prior to the release of “Avadon,” the studio was responsible for the long-running ‘Avernum’ and ‘Geneforge’ series. One thing that all of Spiderweb’s many games have in common is the fact that they are lo-fi retro cRPGs that should evoke fond memories of the bygone era in which PC mega-publisher, InterPlay, gifted the gaming world with the original ‘Fallout’ games as well as the large number of Dungeons & Dragons-based cRPGs made in the Infinity Engine.
“Avadon” was released in 2011, a few years after both the ‘Avernum’ and ‘Geneforge’ series were wrapped up after …
