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Game Overview

Ancients 2: Approaching Evil is that classic MS-DOS dungeon crawler sequel where you’re basically racing to stop some ancient evil from wrecking everything. It’s not a direct follow-up to the first game, so no need to worry about missing lore—just grab your party and dive in.

You get six classes to pick from (paladin and ranger are new this time) and five races, including half-elves and hobbits. I went with a dwarf priest on my first run, which… wasn’t the smartest choice, but hey, live and learn. The city’s still your home base for gearing up and patching wounds, but now you’re not just stuck in the same old sewers—there’s wilderness, wizard towers, all that good stuff.

Combat’s the same turn-based grind as before, so if you liked the first game’s rhythm, you’ll feel right at home. Just expect a lot of careful positioning and praying your mage doesn’t run out of spells at the worst moment. It’s janky in that nostalgic DOS way, but there’s something satisfying about slowly building up your party into dungeon-crushing monsters.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".