The Lords of Midnight

The Lords of Midnight
European cover art
Developer(s)Mike Singleton
Chris Wild (remake)
Publisher(s)
Platform(s)
ReleaseZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64

Remake
iOS
  • WW: October 28, 2012 (2012-10-28)
Android
  • WW: January 11, 2013 (2013-01-11)
OS X
  • WW: July 5, 2012 (2012-07-05)
Microsoft Windows
  • WW: July 12, 2013 (2013-07-12)
BlackBerry OS
  • WW: October 28, 2013 (2013-10-28)
Genre(s)Role-playing, wargame
Mode(s)Single-player

The Lords of Midnight is an epic fantasy video game combining aspects of wargames and graphic adventures, written by Mike Singleton and originally released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum. Very well received from the beginning, it was soon converted for the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. The game featured an innovative 3-D effect that Singleton called landscaping, which served to bring the player into the game much more than usual. The Lords of Midnight is often named with Elite as among the top role-playing games of the 1980s. The player must destroy Doomdark, the evil Witchking who has locked the Land of Midnight in perpetual winter. There are multiple ways in which this can be achieved. It was followed by Doomdark's Revenge also in 1984, and Lords of Midnight: The Citadel in 1995.