Game

Heretic

1994 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · DOS · Shooter

79IGDB player score
98 ratings

Previously Take

A respectable 79 average that never found its audience. A shooter with fantasy, historical in its DNA — loud, fast, and built for repeat runs. No multiplayer, no problem — the campaign carries the whole thing. From 1994, back when games shipped finished.

About this game

Three brothers, known as the Serpent Riders, have used their powerful magic to possess seven kings of Parthoris into mindless puppets and corrupt their armies. The Sidhe elves resist the Serpent Riders' magic. The Serpent Riders thus declared the Sidhe as heretics and waged war against them. The Sidhe are forced to take a drastic measure to sever the natural power of the kings destroying them and their armies, but at the cost of weakening the elves' power, giving the Serpent riders an advantage to slay the elders. While the Sidhe retreat, one elf, sets off on a quest of vengeance against the weakest of the three Serpent Riders, D'Sparil. He travels through the "City of the Damned", the ruined capital of the Sidhe, then past Hell's Maw and finally the Dome of D'Sparil.