The Ultizurk Series
Produced by: Robert “Dr. Dungeon” Deutsch
Website: MACH GRYPHON CASTLE
The first entry in the Ultizurk series.
The second entry in the Ultizurk series.
A spinoff entry in the Ultizurk series, possibly inspired by Ultima Underworld.
Another spinoff of the Ultizurk series.
Another spinoff of the Ultizurk series.
The third entry in the Ultizurk series.
The second part of Ultizurk III.
The Ultizurk games were/are a series of shareware games released in the 1990s. They have a very similar look and feel to some of the later Ultima games, and even the name of the series suggests more than just a casual connection thereto. They are DOS games, and as such may require DOSBox in order to work.
Each game comes in two parts; the first part of each can be obtained, played, and passed for free, while the second part must be purchased. Each part of each game, and each game in the series, builds off of the plot(s) of earlier instalments, meaning that the series should be bound together by something like a cohesive narrative.
It was thought that the Ultizurk games were lost to time until just recently, when Infinitron Dragon managed to unearth links to many of the series’ shareware releases, and Dr. Dungeon subsequently went on to re-release the first two entries in the series in their entirety, for free, along with Underland, the first spin-off.
In total, six Ultizurk games were released, and a seventh — Ultizurk 4: Lord of the Cyclops — was never completed. The reason there are so many entries compared to how few numbered entries exist in the series has to do with the fact that it would appear that Dr. Dungeon put together a few spinoff-type games, such as The Great Ultizurkian Underland…which I would assume takes some inspiration from Ultima Underworld.
All of the downloads for the shareware portions of each game that Infinitron Dragon could find are hosted here, as well as the full-version downloads for Ultizurk 1 and Ultizurk 2 that Dr. Dungeon released; feel free to grab one and give it a try.
Other games by Dr. Dungeon:
The first Babysitter text adventure from Dr. Dungeon.
The second Babysitter text adventure game by Dr. Dungeon.
The second Spook House text adventure by Dr. Dungeon.
The third Spook House text adventure by Dr. Dungeon.
Another RPG by Dr. Dungeon, this one an alternate version of The Great Ultizurkian Underland.
Can you fix these download links, Kenneth? Your site’s basically the only reliable place to find these.
I’ll start restoring them presently; with luck, they’ll all be up by the end of the day. I’ll need to mess with them a bit more this evening; I’m moving files to a different storage location as part of the transition to the new download manager. But…they’ll be back soon. Soonish.
Addendum: As you see download links re-appear, please do test them. I can do so at my end, but an external test would be good to have anyway.
Seems good, thanks!
Thanks for the downloads. You’re positive they’re safe though? Browser alerted me to them possibly being dangerous.
At a guess, they’re probably hard-coded to use http rather than https URLs, which most browsers will warn against these days.