Eschalon: Book I on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Eschalon: Book I is an old-school role-playing game that will take you across massive outdoor environments and deep into dozens of sprawling dungeons as you seek to uncover the mystery of who you are. It features a tile-built, turn-based game world where the result of absolutely every action is rolled, calculated or statistically...

Eschalon: Book I is a rpg, indie and isometric game developed and published by Basilisk Games.
Released on February 10th 2009 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 364 reviews of which 315 were positive and 49 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 2000, XP, Vista
  • Processor: 1.8ghz or better
  • Memory: 512MB
  • Graphics: 3D Accelerated (DirectX 7.0 or OpenGL compliant)
  • DirectX®: 7.0 or greater
  • Hard Drive: 200MB
  • Sound: Yes
MacOS
  • OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later
  • Processor: 1.6GHz
  • Memory: 256 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 3D accelerated graphics card
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Processor: 1.6GHz
  • Memory: 256 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 3D accelerated graphics card

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Aug. 2024
From my child hood time playing this, to the music, and multiple dynamic ways to play this in not strict way. I love coming back to play this first one over and over to remember it again after a while, glad it had such along development over all and had so much detail put in too. Honestly wish the final book 3 ending was more open to different scenarios, but was still a fun game till the end anyways
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April 2024
Very entertaining, lots of problems to solve, a lot of sleuthing, many ways to build character, a lot of play. I play this one over and over.
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Eschalon: Book I
8.0
315
49
Online players
6
Developer
Basilisk Games
Publisher
Basilisk Games
Release 10 Feb 2009
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