Play Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds Online

Ultima Underworld II came out in 1993 for MS-DOS, developed by Looking Glass Technologies. It was part of that wave of early 90s PC games that tried to build deep, interactive worlds, even if the technology was still catching up to the ambition. You could feel the effort that went into making something more complex than the typical dungeon crawler of the time.

You control the Avatar, trapped inside Castle Britannia which has been sealed off by a magical barrier. Your goal is to travel through eight different worlds connected to the castle, solving the problems in each one to gather the power needed to break the barrier. The game uses a first person perspective with free movement and real time combat; you manage hunger, spellcasting with runes, and an inventory full of items that all have physical presence and weight. Progress is slow, methodical, and often difficult, requiring careful observation and a lot of note taking. It feels less like playing a game and more like surviving in a place that doesn't care if you succeed.

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