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Subscribe to our newsletter Remember Darkstone? Probably not.

It's one of many Diablo-likes of the 1990s largely forgotten today like Revenant or, er, one of the other examples I could come up with except for the fact I seem to have forgotten them as well.I remember Darkstone because, while a fairly generic fantasy hack-and-slash, it had a few features that marked it out.

For starters, while it did have multiplayer, you could also play solo with a sidekick—a full second character with their own class, skills, and inventory, who you could switch to whenever you felt like it.

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The CPU did a decent job managing them when you weren't, but as someone who frequently regrets picking the "wrong" class in an action RPG, it was great to know you had a backup choice.In addition to that it had some wonderful music, atmospheric loading screens, randomized quests, and an oddball dedication to realism.

As well as managing a hunger bar that would constantly decrease if you didn't regularly stuff apples and chicken legs into your player-character's portrait faces, you also grew older as the game went on ## Editor's Note The gaming community will surely have mixed reactions to this news. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/darkstone-a-classic-1999-action-rpg-about-eating-apples-and-trying-not-to-die-of-old-age-is-being-remastered-by-its-original-creator/)