Development included a huge, well-planned outlay and enormous care to make this a benchmark adventure game. It provided weeks of fun, challenging play. One complication is that several versions of the original game seem to have been released over the last 20 years, and with differences by platform; so when players hunt for hints and tips online, they often find irrelevant, unhelpful or obsolete solutions. The other problem for me was the absence of a single-source guide. I’ve read that others players have them, but I couldn’t find one, so the learning curve was steeper than it needed to be, and I wasted a lot of time hunting for help, sometimes unsuccessfully.

The Avernum series is just the best RPG value on iPad. Do them all in order. The campaign world is huge with delightful weirdness around every corner and hours upon hours of play. Ignore the NPCs who pressure you to complete the main quests quickly, just take your time and thoroughly explore and don't finish before game day 160. Then when you finish, start over again with a walkthrough/quest list to catch everything you missed.

Do you like old school RPGs? What are you waiting for? Pretty sure this is the largest of the Avernum games. I played for about 10 hours before even thinking about going to the large over world. Plays great on iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil. Bonus: save games are transferable to Mac.

If you like old school isometric rpg’s, the Avernum and Avadon games are fantastic.I’d start from the beginning of the series, because then this one is a real treat when you get to actually go to the surface. I love it, and wish the other older spiderweb games would get this same treatment. I waited patiently for the iPad version to come out, because it just works perfectly and because it is way harder to find great games for the iPad than for the PC.Enjoy!