Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark

December 31, 1984 Five Ways Software Arrow Publications
Role-playing (RPG)
ZXS
About

Gameplay is very close to the original gamebook with branching decisions entered by keyboard, except for combat which is handled in a real-time 2D combat interface.
Storyline

You are Lone Wolf in this adaptation of the classic gamebook, "Flight from the Dark". The Kai monastery has just been destroyed and you play as the last apprentice of the "Kai lords", a group of elite warrior-monks, as you have to race to tell the king of the surprise attack and imminent invasion.
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Game Info

Release Date December 31, 1984
Developer Five Ways Software
Publisher Arrow Publications
Game Modes Single player
Perspective Side view
Themes Fantasy