Albion (1994)
Albion is a 1994 rpg video game made by Blue Byte.
Blue Byte sends pilot Tom Driscoll crashing from the interstellar factory ship Toronto onto a world the survey data called lifeless. Albion turns out to be green, teeming, and home to intelligent peoples with cultures of their own. The journey that follows is turn-based and tactical, told from an overhead view in the towns and a first-person step through its dungeons. You gather companions, negotiate with strange societies, and weigh whether the mining fleet above has any right to the planet below. It blends soft science fiction with old-school party adventure and a genuine ecological conscience.
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What is Albion about?
Blue Byte sends pilot Tom Driscoll crashing from the interstellar factory ship Toronto onto a world the survey data called lifeless. Albion turns out to be green, teeming, and home to intelligent peoples with cultures of their own. The journey that follows is turn-based and tactical, told from an overhead view in the towns and a first-person step through its dungeons. You gather companions, negotiate with strange societies, and weigh whether the mining fleet above has any right to the planet below. It blends soft science fiction with old-school party adventure and a genuine ecological conscience.
When was Albion released?
Albion was released on 31 December 1994.
Who made Albion?
Albion was made by Blue Byte.
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A few thoughts on Albion
Its story of a stranded human who finds a living alien world with peoples of its own echoes the film Avatar, while the culture-clash anthropology recalls Ursula K. Le Guin. For more turn-based party sci-fi with a moral streak, the ruined-world questing of Wasteland still holds up.