World of Aden: Thunderscape Download PC

Role-playing game

A pen and paper role-playing game (RPG) was produced by West End Games. In 2013, Kyoudai Games acquired the rights to the game, and plans to publish a new version of the RPG. A year later in March 2014, Kyoudai launch the Core Rulebook of the Campaign Setting for the Pathfinder RPG.

Reception

T. Liam McDonald of PC Gamer US wrote, "It's fun, it's different, it's well-done, and it promises great things for the future of this World of Aden line." The magazine left its Game of the Year award category for "Best Roleplaying Game" empty in 1995, as the editors believed none of the year's releases were strong enough to deserve it. However, the editors nevertheless highlighted Thunderscape as "a very good game", which "gave us hope for much better games in the future."

In Computer Gaming World, Scorpia wrote that Thunderscape's automap is "among the most horrible I have ever seen", and she found fault with the game's extensive length and lack of polish. While she enjoyed the first quarter of the game, she believed that its later sections devolved into an "interminable bore", which was "likely to appeal most to the devoted hack-and-slasher". The magazine later included Thunderscape in its holiday 1995 buyer's guide, where a writer noted that, despite the game's "minor problems", players "could do worse than visit ... this emerging world".

Andy Butcher reviewed Thunderscape for Arcane magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. Butcher comments that "It isn't a bad game. It's fun, and mildly absorbing. But it doesn't offer anything new and soon becomes boring."

In his book Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games (2008), the video game historian Matt Barton called Thunderscape and its companion Entomorph "well-crafted and highly playable games that attracted little interest from CRPG fans then or now."