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What's also amazing is how someone ported Nox to the browser. Similar but more arena-style game (by Westwood) that was unfortunately overshadowed by Diablo at the time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nox/comments/bkvc0s/nox_in_a_browse...

https://playnox.xyz/

Even multiplayer works. Insane amount of work.

I highly recommend at least trying the campaign (not the "Quest" mode). It's like a faster Diablo.

It's under active development, and sometimes the initial download can't complete on my crappy connection.




I was going to mention this if nobody else had - really amazing job done by the most prolific hacker of the Nox community. He also set up proxy servers so users playing through the web version using WebRTC could join servers hosted by non-web players.


Nox! What a treasure. One of my personal favorites. Its so similar to many other dungeon crawlers but somehow strikingly unique and unreasonably fun.


the abilityo reverse most spells was fun. my favorite was teleporting an enemy to my teleport marker instead of myself. o courses my marker was in a lava lake...


I remember installing Nox and finishing it in one go


Single player was only the beginning (Although they did have Nox Quest later).

That was one of the best online battle-arena style games I have ever played even to this day. The ladder system was awesome. Games were fast paced, you could pop in and out as you pleased


When I found the web port, I had to immediately host my own multiplayer games so I could reminisce on the maps that have only been memories for 15+ years. Some of the best gaming of my childhood happened on that mini-mine deathmatch map and those larger CTF maps.

I loved how different the classes were. CTF maps were all sorts of chaos, all these little battles happening all over the place. Stone fists falling from the sky, warriors randomly charging through choke points, wizards spawning walls and annoying teleportation traps, the devious chuckle of an ember demon, the foreboding gong-chimes of Force of Nature spam, and the satisfaction of a Death Ray one-shot.


Yes! The multiplayer was the best part imo.


I spent so many hours playing WW's Nox. Was able to assist the dev team with bugs from time to time. Enjoyed the release of Nox Quest. I miss Westwood.




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