Castle of the Winds
Has anybody else played this fantastic little game?
It's a loosely Norse-inspired rogue-like dungeon crawler, with a surprisingly fun and addictive gameplay involving mana-based spellcasting and a turn-based "you move I move" combat/movement system. I'm taking a short break from my Sword Coast adventures to rediscover something else I massively enjoyed in my youth.
On more modern operating systems you need to download and install DOSBox, and run it in a Windows 3.11 environment. [There's a great guide to setting it up here, alongside which you can download the game itself here.]
It's a loosely Norse-inspired rogue-like dungeon crawler, with a surprisingly fun and addictive gameplay involving mana-based spellcasting and a turn-based "you move I move" combat/movement system. I'm taking a short break from my Sword Coast adventures to rediscover something else I massively enjoyed in my youth.
On more modern operating systems you need to download and install DOSBox, and run it in a Windows 3.11 environment. [There's a great guide to setting it up here, alongside which you can download the game itself here.]
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I would always use the exploit where you would start with minimum constitution (to distribute the points elsewhere) and keep casting magic arrow until the con loss from overcasting would roll over and you would have max con.
I've succumbed to restarting just to try it out, and it took two tries: first one got my Constitution to 0, leaving me on 2 Health, then I had to rest completely and repeat, which looped it around. Now I've got a superhero running around Bjarnarhaven. Sold lots of my armour to buy a strongly enchanted broadsword in the shop there (which I've dubbed "Choppa"), and now my toon is just slicing and dicing everything into pieces before they can even get a hit in.
@Rik_Kirtaniya DOSBox should satisfy all of your needs. The guide I posted in the OP should help you set up Windows 3.11 in DOSBox (it makes a little partition of the computer that can run a completely different version of Windows, just needing a little over 30 MB of space). Then if you access the .exe for Exile 2 within that partition it should run without any problems.
Once I'd finished working through the guide on Reddit, I added the following two lines to the end of the config file opened by DOSBox 0.74-3 Options.bat:
Like you I've only ever completed Part I of CotW, but I did previously get a few levels into Part II. So far so good on this run, up to level 6 of Hrungnir's fortress in Part I. Looking forward to slaying me some Jotuns.