Games Inspirations for Darkwind

These are games that inspired both the world and the general visual style of Darkwind.

• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (1996)
• Diablo (1997)
• Unreal (1998)
• Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
• Baldur's Gate (1998)
• Icewind Dale (2000)
• Rune (2000)
• The Witcher II (2011)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

The world also takes a lot of inspirations from the D&D campaign setting Forgotten Realms, specifically the 2nd Edition region boxes The North and Unapproachable East With the following lands as the main sources of ideas.

• The Western Heartlands
• The Delimbiyr Valley
• High Forest
• Greypeak Mountains
• Thesk
• Rashemen
• Narfell

Other ideas come from much further back, the Hyborian Age of Robert Howards Conan stories. While most commonly depicted as a mediterranean or desert setting, the world also includes various temperate and sub-arctic regions, though few of the stories are set there.

• Cimmeria
• Hyperborea
• Brythunia
• Nemedia
• Hyrkania

In addition to these inspirations for the world of Darkwind, I also got numerous ideas for gameplay and the overall design, as well as some specific worldbuilding elements, from these games.

• Fallout (1997)
• Planescape: Torment (1999)
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002)
• Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (2004)
• Stalker (2007)
• Bloodborne (2015)
• Fear & Hunger (2018)
• Blasphemous (2019)

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