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The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games

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Spread over more than 500 pages, The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games reviews over 400 seminal games from 1975 to 2015, covering the role-playing classics we all know and love such as Ultima, Wizardry, Fallout and Mass Effect – all brought to life with vibrant and engaging in-game images. Each entry also shares articles on the genre, mod suggestions and hints on how to run the games on modern hardware. The book is completely by written by fans, AAA developers, indies, journalists, modders and industry personalities such as Chris Avellone, Ian Frazier, Scorpia, Ferhegón, Richard Cobbett, Brian ‘Psychochild’ Green, Durante, George Weidman and Tim Cain, to name but a few.

The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games comes as a hardback as standard and uses thread sewn binding for extra durability. The cover features a specially created artwork by fantasy artist Jan Pospíšil.

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Customer Reviews (4.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Miles ★★★★★

I was worried this would be a shallow coffee-table book, but it's the opposite—each of the 400+ entries gets real analysis and historical context. The way it covers 40 years of games in one coherent narrative is impressive, and I've already lost a weekend to just flipping through it.

Samuel W. ★★★★★

This is the book I keep going back to on my shelf. Flipping through 500+ pages to find a forgotten gem from the 80s or 90s is a ritual now, and the reviews are detailed enough to spark a full nostalgia trip. It's a hefty tome, but that just means there's always something new to discover.

Emma U. ★★★★☆

I was expecting a quick skim, but I've already sunk a whole evening into it, just flipping between the 1975 classics and the later entries. The sheer scope, over 400 games in 500-plus pages, is exactly what I wanted for a reference shelf, and the write-ups feel genuinely researched.

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