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Island of Kesmai cover
Video game · 1985

Island of Kesmai

Released 15 December 1985 on MS-DOS

Developer
Kesmai
Publisher
AOL, CompuServe
Made in
United States
Genre
Role-playing (RPG)

About Island of Kesmai

Island of Kesmai is a discontinued multi-user dungeon (MUD) online game. An early entry in the genre, the game was innovative in its use of roguelike pseudo-graphics. It is considered a major forerunner of modern massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). It was still text-based, with just a tiny ASCII view similar to that in a roguelike, but that simplicity allowed it to offer a depth that it would take years for graphical RPGs to rival. Up to 100 players at once could explore a large open world, killing monsters, doing elaborate quests and hunting “world bosses” that required a powerful party to take down.

Summary: IGDB.

Release dates

MS-DOS15 December 1985

Screenshots

Island of Kesmai screenshot 1

Videos

Island of Kesmai: Gameplay Video

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Sources: Wikidata, IGDB, Wikipedia's release lists.