Mystic Towers

Player notes

About this game

Mystic Towers puts Baron Baldric inside a tower of connected, isometric rooms. Monsters are only part of the problem: locked doors, movable objects and switches also stand between you and the exit. Baldric needs food and drink as well as life energy, so collecting supplies matters alongside fighting.

Use the arrow keys to walk and Alt to jump. Ctrl is the context-sensitive action key: face an object to collect or use it, or fire the selected spell when there is nothing to interact with. Space cycles spells; 1–6 select them directly. Walk into movable objects to push them, or use Backspace to pull. The original F1 help explains the screen-relative directions and the mouse alternative.

After the hardware check, press a key to reach the main menu. Choose Play or resume Game, then Start a Quest Cycle. This shareware quest contains one Apprentice tower and one Wizard tower. Clear the monsters and destroy the generator with a Generator Bomb; the red key then opens the exit in the room where you began. Keep track of doors and supplies as you work through the five floors.

This page runs the original DOS 1.11 shareware release by Animation F/X, published by Apogee in 1994. It includes the first episode's Apprentice and Wizard variants, not the registered tower set. Original files, ordering material and the distribution notice are retained. Menus and in-game help remain in English.