Developer: Troika Games
Release Date: August 21, 2001

Troika Games was one of those legendary developers, not only because of the pedigree of the founders but also because they didn't last very long and their games got the majority of their appreciation long after the fact. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is sort of like Fallout and sort of like Baldur's Gate, but rather than be in a post-apocalyptic or fantasy setting, it takes place in a steampunk world which is a surprisingly uncommon theme in gaming.

Alexander Batalov, who did the outstanding reverse engineered source ports for Fallout and Fallout 2 is in the process of working his Community Edition magic on Arcanum. He's not finished with it, thus the Early Access label, but the game reportedly is playable from start to finish so I decided to offer a build of it here.

NOTE: at this time the port is not playing the intro video so you may want to watch it here to get the gist of what it's dropping you into.

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