The player controls a group of up to four adventurers, who can use melee weapons, missile weapons, magic, or a mix of these skills to defeat opponents. Gameplay ScreenshotĪvernum: Escape from the Pit is a single-player role-playing video game. The Avernum series tells the tale of the Avernites' struggle to survive, avenge themselves upon the Empire, and win both freedom and a return to the surface world. Prisoners are expected to die, the victim of starvation, horrible monsters, or simple despair. Everyone on the surface who speaks out, rebels, or doesn't fit in is sentenced to life imprisonment in Avernum. The surface is ruled by the Empire, a single, monolithic power under the command of the cruel Emperor Hawthorne. The Avernum series is based in Avernum, a subterranean nation far under the surface of the world.

The game was released for Mac OS X on December 14, 2011, and in April 2012 for Microsoft Windows and the iPad.

The game was re-released as a graphics and game engine update, and it addressed Avernum incompatibilities with newer versions of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and newer.

It is the first game in the remade Avernum First Trilogy and the second ground-up rewrite of Exile: Escape from the Pit, released in 1995 (the first rewrite was Avernum, released in 2000). Avernum: Escape from the Pit is a role-playing video game developed by Spiderweb Software.

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