Lowlander for Android

Lowlander focuses on quests, exploration, and loot. Combat is turn based and navigation uses the arrow keys. Your goal is to find better weapons and armor, while staying stocked up on food. It still runs great on a Android Pro with Mojave as well as an Mobile Pro with iOS 14. It's a satisfying dungeon crawl experience that provides several hours of entertainment. Well worth the small price. And hopefully there will be more in the series.

If you are looking for a game like the old Ultima series, this is it. Quest across a large overworld to find towns, dungeons, castles, and towers in your effort to overcome an evil that threatens the land. Build up your strength, learn new spells, and unlock new capabilities until the final boss battle that decides the fate of the kingdoms. This is an OS X adaptation of the excellent iOS game of the same name, allowing you to navigate the world with the arrow keys and keyboard commands, which is actually a lot nicer than the touchscreen version and delivers more of the feel of the games Lowlander is based on. I played through the game from start to finish and experienced no bugs or crashes.

No separate tactical combat screen like Ultima III or IV. You fight and move on the same world map like in Ultima II. No parties either. Just your lone character. Again, think Ultima II not III. The dungeons are like town maps. This is radically different from Ultima III which had 1st-person, 3D, wire frame images to represent the dungeon, and that you had to map out yourself on paper. Speaking of maps, this game has them! A nice modern feature. You can scroll around a zoomed out view of everywhere you have been. It is more forgiving and less brutal than Ultima III or II. It is still tough enough that if you are not careful then you will wind up in an impossible-to-continue situation, but it does not occur as often as it did in Ultima III. Be prepared for very modern references like Obamacare and social media. Did Richard Garriott reference 80s culture like that in the originals? I also notice a single line of pixel glitches at the top of the screen at times, but that it no biggie to me, personally.

This game was written by someone who played the Ultima games as a kid. He manages to keep it true to the format while also improving on some things (The world map is amazing, and the variety of dungeons is nice too) and keeping it very nostalgic. I think I actually prefer this game over the first Ultima as it’s even less buggy - in fact, I ran into no bugs or crashes at all! The game took 20 hours (in game time) to beat and there is no need to read instructions, it’s pretty easy to pick up. I hope they make more - I’ll buy them all!

Growing up I played the Ultima series on the Commodore 64 and have since wished they would be rebooted for today’s computers, well look no further. This game has the look and feel of Ultima 1 and 2. Well worth the price for a few moments of personal Zen none the less a few hours of entertainment. I highly suggest this one to anyone looking for a blast from the past or for our kids who want to know what it was like when we were young. My only real complaint about the game is the controls, they could be enhanced as well as take less space up on the screen.