Genre: Role-Playing game (RPG) Format: Download and CD Developer: Spiderweb Software Mac Publisher: Spiderweb Software System Requirements: Mac OS X v10.4 or later, 800 MHz processor (minimum 1.6 GHz processor recommended), video card or processor with OpenGL support and 32 MB video RAM (64 MB recommended), 512 MB RAM, 200 MB hard disk space, and more »

Spiderweb Software has released Avernum: Escape From The Pit for the Macintosh, a role-playing game which tells an epic story of a world far beneath the surface. The first game in a new trilogy, you’ll experience life in Avernum as you struggle for survival against your many enemies, look for a way to escape, and even get revenge on the cruel Emperor Hawthorne of the Empire who cast you and so many others underground.

Avernum: Escape From the Pit from Spiderweb Software is due to be released before the end of the year, just in time for Santa Claus to (digitally) deliver. If you’re a fan of adventure games, role-playing games, and/or any game that features turn-based combat and an epic story with multiple endings, dozens of quests, and innovative character creation, then you should be eagerly counting down the days.

Avernum: Escape From the Pit is a ground-up rewrite of Spiderweb Software’s popular game Avernum which was released in 1999. Fight to complete up to three game-winning quests. Explore a massive nation of tunnels and caverns, seeking out eighty towns and dungeons. Master over 50 spells and battle disciplines and hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts.

Spiderweb Software—creator of the Avernum and Geneforge turn-based RPG franchises—has turned 25-years old. As they put it, “Back then, small developers sold something called ‘shareware.’ The World Wide Web barely existed. People took photographs on ‘film.’ Cell phones were the size of loaves of bread. Also, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.” So, yeah, they’re embellishing a bit, but they’re not embellishing the 25% off sale on all collections of their games

The RPG masters at Spiderweb Software, Inc. have announced the release of Avernum 6 for the Macintosh, the final game in the epic, award-winning series. Avernum 6 is a fantasy role-playing game set in the world of Avernum, an enormous series of caves far below the surface of the world. Travel into the strange subterranean land of Avernum, full of dungeons, labyrinths, and constant warfare.