Avernum 6 Announced

Avernum 6, the final game in Jeff Vogel’s and Spiderweb Software’s popular and long-running Avernum series, has been announced, though no release date was revealed at the time of this writing. Obviously, the game will be released well after Avernum 5, which will be out for Macintosh in late 2009 and Windows in early 2010.

the final game in the series is set in the caves far below the surface of the world of Avernum. Players will travel into the strange subterranean land full of dungeons, labyrinths, and constant warfare. Avernum is a nation of people living in an enormous warren of tunnels and caverns, far below the surface of the world that once served as a prison colony for rebels and thugs; now this underworld is a wild frontier, full of adventurous souls looking for wealth, fame, and magical power.

But all that adventure was put to rest with the coming of “the Blight.” Overnight, the mushrooms Avernum needed to feed itself withered and died, the savage beasts of the low tunnels, reptilian Slithzerikai, emerged, sensing weakness. They struck destroying many of the weakened citizens and created waves of hungry, desperate refugees.

In Avernum 6 this final set of disasters threatens to destroy your homeland in a wave of famine and warfare. Only you can help your people to get to safety before everything falls apart and everyone is lost forever.

More information about this latest RPG from Jeff Vogel can be found at www.spiderwebsoftware.com.