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Ixona

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Official Site: Adventure Soft

Waxworks is a horror-themed, first person dungeon crawl video game developed by Horror Soft and released in 1992. for Amiga, Macintosh, and DOS. The DOS release retains the Amiga 32-color palette rather than 256-color VGA graphics. This was the last game made by Horror Soft before they became Adventure Soft, the company known for the Simon the Sorcerer series. Waxworks was inspired by the 1988 film Waxwork.

In 2009, the game was re-released on GOG.com using DOSBox with compatibility for macOS and Windows.

Waxworks is a first-person dungeon crawl role-playing video game. The game is divided into five different time periods: Ancient Egypt, Medieval Transylvania, Victorian England, an industrial mine period and Ixona's period. Three of those time periods have a mixture of puzzle-solving and combat, while the Victorian England and Ixona ones are more puzzle-solving oriented. The levels may be completed in any order, except for Ixona's period, which must be done last. Once a time period is completed, the player is reset to level one and loses all items and weapons, which do not transfer to other levels. The player levels up in each time period by defeating enemies, solving puzzles and exploring new areas, which increases maximum health and psychic power, the latter of which can be used to contact Uncle Boris. The player can use Uncle Boris' crystal ball to get hints and healing: the reagents needed for the healing spell depend on the level.

In each time period, the player moves through a series of tight corridors using a bitmap sprite-based point-and-click interface picking up items, solving puzzles, avoiding traps and engaging in combat with various opponents. During combat, players can target their opponent's individual body parts, such as the head or arms. The main objective is to collect a special item from each of the evil twin ancestors before venturing into the Ixona period to undo the family curse.

Ixona has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.