2025-09-22 18:22 UTC · Community Announcements · Spiderweb
Started in 1994, the cult classic Avernum series is one of the great video game sagas. On October 22, Spiderweb Software returns to this unique underworld nation with Avernum 4: Greed and Glory! Coming for Windows and Mac. Take a look here!In this new, epic fantasy role-playing adventure, you explore and save (or betray?) an enormous underworld nation. Battle through huge dungeons, fight unique and cunning foes, collect, create, and bless hundreds of different artifacts, and enjoy a really cool story. Avernum is a nation deep underground, full of huge caves, treacherous labyrinths, and fairyla
2024-09-18 18:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Spiderweb
We have launched the Kickstarter for our next game, and we're thrilled to finally return to the world of Avernum! Avernum 4: Greed and Glory will be an epic, indie, turn-based fantasy role-playing adventure for Windows, Mac, and iPad. It continues the saga of Avernum, a nation in caverns far under the world, full of misfits, adventures, treasures to be found, and monsters to hunt (and that hunt you). It will be a remaster of the indie RPG cult-classic Avernum 4, which came out way back in 2005. The original is a massive RPG, full of skilled warriors and wizards using a multitude of weapons, sp
2021-02-24 14:08 UTC · Community Announcements · Spiderweb
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen is now out for Windows & Macintosh! It is the first game in a new epic series from Spiderweb Software. It's a unique, truly open-ended fantasy role-playing adventure in a strange, new world. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create. Our game offers unmatched freedom in how you play. Use magic or your deadly pets to crush your enemies. Or, use trickery, diplomacy, and stealth to win the game without ever attacking a foe. Choose between a host of rival factions or just destroy everything
2020-11-11 22:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)
Last year brought RPG gems like Disco Elysium. Was there an RPG as good released in 2020? We’ve updated our list of the best RPGs of all time to reflect the best of the past year – and there’s still dozens of older classics, too. (more…)
2020-09-23 13:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Spiderweb
Escape into exciting world of fantasy and adventure! Enjoy this assortment of classic, old school role-playing games, full of fun stories, challenging battle, and sweet loot. Sample the best this ever-popular genre has to offer! The Age of Decadence The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees. Avernum: Escape From the Pit Avernum is an epic fantasy role-playing adventu
2020-01-30 16:40 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
The best RPGs have always found their home on PC, but it’s a big genre and it can be difficult to know what you should play next. That’s why we’ve put together this list. (more…)
2019-10-11 13:38 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
Look! A ranking of the 50 best RPGs on PC. I know, you never asked for this, but here it is. It is 100 percent correct, we double-checked. The RPG is a broad and deep sea and fishing out the best games from its characterful waters is no easy task. But we are capable fishers on the good ship RPS, and know when to humanely throw back a tiddler or fight to heave up a monster. Enough of this salty metaphor. Here are the 50 best RPGs you can play on PC today. (more…)
2019-08-09 22:47 UTC · Community Announcements · Spiderweb
Greetings from Spiderweb Software! So, there's a project we've been working on. We first started thinking about it five years ago. We started it for real two years ago. We've put in countless hours building it from the ground up. At last, it's almost done, and it's a ton of fun. Queen's Wish: The Conqueror, our first all-new series in years, is coming to Steam on September 11, 2019! If you'd like to know as soon as it's out and let Steam know that there is interest, please wishlist it. So ... What is this game about? You are royalty of the mighty empire of Haven! Your mother the Queen rules, w
2017-09-14 17:49 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
Don’t call it retro: Jeff Vogel’s Spiderweb Software are still making the same sorts of RPGs they did decades ago (and often the very same games). This week Spiderweb announced Avernum 3: Ruined World , capping off their trilogy of remakes of their expanded remakes of the ’90s Exile games. If you want old-school top-down RPG action with plenty of freedom and a world that changes as disaster unfolds, mate, it’s coming in a few months. Here, have a look in the announcement trailer: (more…)
2016-11-17 18:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 75% on Avernum: Escape From the Pit!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time
2015-07-10 16:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
An entirely objective ranking of the 50 best PC RPGs ever released. Covering the entire history of computer role-playing games is a daunting task and attempting to place the best games in such a broad genre in any kind of order is even more daunting. Thankfully, we are equal to all tasks and below, you will find the best fifty PC RPGs of all time. …
2013-07-10 16:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
We’re a couple of days late with this, but I felt it really deserves a mention. Spiderweb Software, the studio that creates classic isometric RPGs, has just celebrated its 20th birthday. There aren’t many studios that can claim that, especially with the original team still working there. Of course, it helps that the original team is Jeff Vogel. (more…)
2012-06-27 17:05 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 66% off Avernum: Escape From the Pit! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
2012-04-18 12:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
2012-04-11 16:52 UTC · Product Release · Valve
Avernum: Escape From the Pit is now available on Steam and is 20% off until April 18th at 10am Pacific Time! Avernum is an epic fantasy role-playing adventurer set in an enormous, subterranean nation. Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival and wealth in the monster-infested darkness. You have been banished to the underworld, never to see the light of day again.
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