1980s Blobber games

4 Blobber classics first released 1980 to 1989, in release order, and 76 games looking back to them.

Games looking back to them

• Ashes of the Forgotten: Free browser crawler in the style of 1980s party RPGs.
• Below the Abbey: Grid-movement turn-based party crawler with many dungeons.
• Crossing The Sands: First-person party RPG about the secrets of desert tribes.
• Cyclopean: The Great Abyss: Monochrome Lovecraftian first-person crawler.
• Descending: Curse of the Blood Crown: Alpha of a large first-person grid party RPG.
• Diviner: First-person crawler with Dark Souls mood and weapon customization.
• Dungeons of Miasma: First-person crawler blended with an ASCII roguelike.
• Duskfall: Indie Wizardry-like with first-person turn-based crawling.
• Elminage Original: Japanese first-person party crawler in the direct Wizardry lineage.
• Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon: Comedic first-person party RPG in the Wizardry and Might and Magic vein.
• Garenda: Free browser crawler with turn-based party combat across ten levels.
• Gates to the Depths 2: Dungeon of Kahardor: Fantasy RPG inspired by early-1980s computer RPGs.
• Golel: First-person roguelike dungeon crawler by a solo developer.
• Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar: Dungeon crawler made over two decades by a former Wizardry 8 contributor, patterned on Wizardry 6 and 7.
• Guardian Gorge: Short classic-style crawler about gathering the guardians of a ravine.
• Hibernaculum: Retro-inspired first-person dungeon crawler RPG.
• Into The Inferno: First-person blobber about rescuing children taken by demons; one of several small crawlers by this creator.
• Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees: Sequel continuing the Might and Magic-style open world party crawl.
• Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower: Third Amberland game, a classic western RPG drawing on 1990s party crawlers.
• Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons: Idle auto-battler with Wizardry-style dungeon crawling.
• Lords of Xulima: Old-school party RPG modeled on Might and Magic and Wizardry.
• Lurking: Old-school CRPG inspired by Ultima III and Wizardry with a classless skill tree.
• Lurking I: Immortui: Retro party-based fantasy RPG on itch.io.
• Lurking II: A Madness: Retro party-based sequel.
• Magic and Metal Zero: Tower of Metal: Turn-based sci-fantasy blobber on itch.io.
• Minerva Labyrinth: Dark first-person crawler with a magical-girl heroine in the Wizardry lineage.
• Monsters of Mican: Whimsical modern take on old-school party crawlers by a solo developer.
• Moraff's Revenge: Shareware dungeon crawler with a 17-level beginner version and 70 registered levels.
• Moraff's World: Shareware first-person dungeon crawler sold by mail and from Moraff's own catalog.
• Navigating The Labyrinth: Party-based first-person grid crawler with turn-based combat.
• Operencia: The Stolen Sun: Grid-based dungeon crawler drawing on Might and Magic.
• Otpad World: Simplified retro browser dungeon-crawling RPG.
• Paper Sorcerer: Stylish black-and-white first-person blobber where you play the villain.
• Realms & Ruins: Abencor: Grid-based first-person pixel-art crawler in the style of 1990s cRPGs.
• Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruins: Free RPG Maker 2000 cult classic mixing JRPG ruin-delving with gamebook choices.
• StarCrawlers: Sci-fi cyberpunk take on the first-person party blobber.
• Stranger of Sword City: Japanese Wizardry-style blobber from the makers of Demon Gaze.
• Swords and Sorcery: Underworld: Six-character first-person crawler closely modeled on the first Might and Magic games; sold from the developer's own site as well as Steam.
• The Mighty Wizard's Tale: Old-school party-based dungeon crawler.
• The Sundered Anvil: Turn-based party RPG in the style of Wizardry and Might and Magic.
• Whammy: Tiny fantasy RPG adventure in 64x64 resolution.
• Wizardry Legacy: Hobby Wizardry-style dungeon crawler from the author's site.
• Lawless Legends: Wild West fantasy RPG built for the Apple II, also playable on modern systems.
• Nox Archaist: New Ultima-style RPG written for real Apple II computers.
• OpenDW (Dragon Wars engine recreation): Engine recreation of Interplay's Dragon Wars, the Bard's Tale team's follow-up.
• Skald: Against the Black Priory: Kickstarted Commodore 64-style RPG inspired by Ultima.
• Heart of Time: Everfall: A first-person party RPG epic
• Myth & Magic II: A first-person party RPG in the 1988 tradition
• Legendary Journeys: The Eye of Baal: Free-roaming blobber with turn-based combat.
• Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown: Seven-member party crawler modeled on Might and Magic III to V.
• Might and Magic 6/7/8 Engine Remake (SourceForge): Earlier remake of the New World Computing engine for Might and Magic 6 to 8; needs the original CD.
• Might and Magic Merge (Might and Magic VII mod): Fan mod that joins Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8 into one continuous adventure.
• OpenEnroth: Open engine for Might and Magic VI to VIII.
• OpenXeen: Open engine for World of Xeen.
• OpenYAMM: Open-source C++20 remake of Might and Magic 6 to 8 inspired by MMMerge, with HD textures and 3D monsters.
• ScummVM Xeen engine: ScummVM engine that runs the World of Xeen games from the original data.
• Swords and Sorcery: Sovereign: Long-running sequel adding a surface world to the Underworld design.
• Swords of Xeen: Fan-made Xeen-engine adventure later bundled officially in the Might and Magic Trilogy.
• The Darkness Below: Crawler that looks like Eye of the Beholder but plays closer to Might and Magic.
• The Quest: Hand-drawn grid-based open-world RPG in the Might and Magic III to V mold, first on mobile.
• Calderan Chronicles: Prologue: Dungeon crawler made for the 2021 Dungeon Crawler Jam.
• Crypts of Carith: Dark fantasy grid crawler inspired by tabletop adventures.
• CSBwin: Free reverse-engineered port of Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back, hosted on the Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia.
• CSBwin (Chaos Strikes Back for Windows): Windows port of the Dungeon Master engine family.
• Dungeon Master Java: Free Java remake of Dungeon Master with free-roaming monsters.
• Dungeon Master Qt: Dungeon Master remake documented step by step on the author's site.
• Dungeon Strikes Back: Free Windows Dungeon Master engine with Lua scripting, distributed via the DM forum.
• Legend of Grimrock: Grid-based dungeon crawler reviving Dungeon Master.
• Legend of Grimrock 2: Outdoor-island sequel to Grimrock.
• Legend of Grimrock II: Outdoor-island sequel to the Dungeon Master-style revival.
• Return to Chaos: Free Dungeon Master remake on a new engine with high resolutions and an editor.
• skproject: Reconstructed Dungeon Master II engine.
• The Deep Paths: Labyrinth of Andokost: Solo-made first-person party crawler in the Eye of the Beholder mold.
• Underkeep: Dungeon crawler inspired by 1990s grid crawlers.
• Vaporum: Steampunk grid dungeon crawler.
• Vaporum: Lockdown: Prequel to Vaporum with the same grid-crawl design.

The classics

• Wizardry (1981)
• The Bard's Tale (1985)
• Might and Magic (1986)
• Dungeon Master (1987)