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Posted by Joe (@joe) on July 18, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
I assume the reference it it being expensive was to an original price that was reduced.
Also, it’s obviously monstrously long, but if it has “different beginning and different endings” then I’m guessing that the expected time for a single playthrough isn’t the full “600 hours of gameplay.”
As a side note, regarding the old games that expected you to map on graph paper, all of the old-school D&D games on Steam come enhanced with “The Gold Box Companion” or “The All Seeing Eye” or whatever they call the version for any given engine, which adds an automap (and other features to help you cheat, but I only use the automap and the digital versions of the original manuals and cluebooks, ect.)
I can imagine getting handmapping some of the old turn-based games back in the day, but not the real-time games like Eye of the Beholder. I played through the first to EotB games recently and liked them, but I wouldn’t have wanted to play them without automap. I do wish that I’d had the hardcore-nerd experience of playing the original Wizardly as a kid, since I’ve been picking at the remake recently, but I wouldn’t go back and play under those conditions now.