Revived
Some good games were given away. Their makers put the code online under an open licence, and then the sites that hosted them went quiet. These are those games, brought back to run here, in a browser, for free.
They are not our originals. Each one keeps its own licence, the credit stays with the people who made it, and the original licence ships with the game. What we added is the work to make them run on Eracade: seeded runs, touch controls, and boards where we could.
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Lantern DeepRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
1977 Text adventure
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Vael I: The Grand Underground EmpireRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
1980 Text adventure
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Vael II: The Wizard's RealmRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
1981 Text adventure
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Vael III: The Endless StairRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
1982 Text adventure
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Hoop HavocRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
2013 Shooter, Arena
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RingkeepRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
2014 Action, Defence
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Wardstone QuartetRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
2014 Tower Defense
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MarrowmancerRevived: an open-source classic, credited to its author
2022 Action, Defence
Credits
Lantern Deep 1977
Revived from Colossal Cave Adventure (Open Adventure 1.22) by Will Crowther and Don Woods; Open Adventure by Eric S. Raymond, BSD 2-Clause. Source: gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure (commit
e6160529e70a).Based on Open Adventure by Eric S. Raymond. Original game (C) 1977, 2005 Will Crowther and Don Woods. Open Adventure is distributed under the BSD 2-Clause licence.
Vael I: The Grand Underground Empire 1980
Revived from Part I of the 1980 underground trilogy (2025 source release) by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling, MIT. Source: github.com/historicalsource (commit
97b7b3d68c07).Original game by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling (1980). Source code released in 2025 under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2025 Microsoft. Names of the game and its world changed for this revival; interpreter written for Eracade.
Vael II: The Wizard's Realm 1981
Revived from Part II of the 1981 underground trilogy (2025 source release) by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling, MIT. Source: github.com/historicalsource (commit
3da966109880).Original game by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling (1981). Source code released in 2025 under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2025 Microsoft. Names of the game and its world changed for this revival; interpreter written for Eracade.
Vael III: The Endless Stair 1982
Revived from Part III of the 1982 underground trilogy (2025 source release) by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling, MIT. Source: github.com/historicalsource (commit
3ec9ed412b5f).Original game by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling (1982). Source code released in 2025 under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2025 Microsoft. Names of the game and its world changed for this revival; interpreter written for Eracade.
Hoop Havoc 2013
Revived from Radius Raid by Jack Rugile, MIT. Source: github.com/jackrugile/radius-raid-js13k (commit
361ab5166570).Radius Raid by Jack Rugile, (c) 2014, MIT licence. Revived for Eracade.
Ringkeep 2014
Revived from SpacePi by Jack Rugile, MIT. Source: github.com/jackrugile/spacepi-js13k (commit
f207e01a340d).SpacePi by Jack Rugile, (c) 2014, MIT licence. Made for js13kGames. Revived for Eracade.
Wardstone Quartet 2014
Revived from Elematter by Jack Rugile, MIT. Source: github.com/jackrugile/elematter-js13k (commit
b7c4c0a9e064).Elematter by Jack Rugile, (c) 2014, MIT licence. Sound synthesis based on jsfxr/sfxr by Thomas Vian (Apache-2.0). Revived for Eracade.
Marrowmancer 2022
Revived from Norman the Necromancer by Dan Prince, Unlicense. Source: github.com/danprince/norman-the-necromancer (commit
5db8ca88c803).Norman the Necromancer by Dan Prince (JS13K 2022), released into the public domain under the Unlicense. Revived for Eracade.
Made something we should bring back, or want your game taken down or credited differently? Write to hello@eracade.com.