The Magic Candle

The Magic Candle

released on Dec 31, 1989

The Magic Candle

released on Dec 31, 1989

The Magic Candle is best described as an Ultima clone. Its a top-down party-driven RPG. The plot revolves around you (Lukas) and your party of intrepid adventurers, whose task it is to seal the demon Dreax within the Magic Candle (which is burning down, and when it does, he gets released). The game has 3 difficulty levels (changing the number of 'days' you get to complete the game in.) A lot of travelling, dungeon-crawling, town-exploring, and especially, lots of conversing with NPCs.


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An Ultima derivative that focuses on a lot of small details. It had things like item durability, hunger, fatigue, and other little systems that try to give RPGs like this a more sim like feel. The ultimate objective is also about containing the main baddy rather than defeating him, so you spend most of the game figuring out how to do that. Despite all the effort that went in to the systems here, I found the story and overall gameplay to be more of a slog than anything. I think it would appeal to Ultima fans a lot, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.