Cyclopean: The Great Abyss

Trapped in the Great Abyss!

You are an old dreamer who, through unforeseen circumstances, has found himself trapped in the Great Abyss, the vast underworld beneath the Dreamlands.  Use the resources at your disposal, weapons, armor, supplies, and any alliances you have with the locals, to explore and learn the secrets of the underworld, in order to make your way back to the upper Dreamlands, or back to the Waking World.

Cyclopean: The Great Abyss seems simple at first, but the gameplay becomes more complex as players learn the intricacies of its various systems.  Read the in-game dialogue and text carefully, and you may actually learn some useful things.

A Variety of Strategies

Although combat plays a big role in the game, it is not the only means of achieving one's goals.  Players may find it much more useful to use a combination of combat, stealth and/or dialogue to deal with the inhabitants of the nether realms.  In fact, the game will punish you severely if you try to fight everything as a low level character, so try to manage your gold, health, alliances and sanity carefully as you traverse the Great Abyss.

Old School CRPG

Cyclopean follows the tradition of early CRPGs like Ultima, Questron, and Legacy of the Ancients (among others) in that it presents two differing views of the game world.  Outside of dungeons, you see your character from the top down in a 2D display of the map.  Whereas, in dungeons, the view changes to a 3D, first person perspective.

Choose Your Dreamer Carefully

When you start the game you will be presented with a random dreamer, with basic abilities and equipment, and any alliances they have.  You can choose to play as that person, or "reroll" to see if you can find a better option.  Cyclopean gives you the freedom to choose from a wide variety of stodgy sounding English upper class gentlemen to play as.