Advanced Xoru is an interactive fiction role-playing video game released as shareware by Castle Technologies in 1989. Gameplay The game is a role-playing game text-adventure, with game mechanics similar to those of Beyond Zork. After naming their character and selecting a character class (Paladin, Necromancer, Barbarian, Zen-Druid Priest, or Shadowy Tracker), the player is transported from an international airport terminal to the interior of a stone pyramid atop a hill surrounded by an impassable stone wall. Using text commands, the player has 368 moves to descend through three subterranean levels and defeat the "Ebon Titan." Reception The game was generally well received, with James Judge of Syntax concluding "As a text adventure this game is average, as a D&D game it is OK and when put together it is fun for the odd foray into the world of Xoru", BBS The game was available as a BBS door on various bulletin board systems.
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