
I learned to use the mouse with this game, and I personally love it to bits.
It has some RPG elements in the form of choices like rejecting to help or accepting a bribe and turning on the original quest giver (like a quest where you can sell a virgin to a sect instead of reuniting her with her father after battling your way back to her home, if I remember correctly. That wizard appearing scared the **** out of me with no potions left and very little to heal her with against their dark needle/spike wizardry). I learned of the existence of Diablo from this game as well as they, from what I read, got plenty of inspiration from it, and left a few call-backs to the games, here and there, particularly a den of undead cows in the spider/dark elves area).
GOG
https://www.gog.com/en/game/sacred_gold
Steam
I personally have the CD and have it on GOG, not sure how it works on Steam.
If anyone wishes to try it, know that you don't have to heal following NPCs/companions by drag and dropping potions onto their portrait or use healing magic on them, you can also automatically heal them by the press of a key ( Shift + B ). I also, still personally, prefer the original base game (or Silver edition, also known as, if I remember correctly, Plus), as the Underworld stuff added too much silly humor (and the campaign feels a bit empty of detail and full of bugs compared to the original) for my tastes. If one gets the Gold edition, you can know which quest is new because, after being completed, the NPC will just freeze in place and be un-interactable, while normal Sacred they will have dialogue and move about. If one is familiar with Sacred 2 and it's writing, expect something similair from Underworld, even if still tamer from what I call "Americanization" humour.
It is also moddable, and it requires Sacred Model Extractor https://vk.com/page-8640958_27430970 and to just rename the file to the one you want (can even play as monsters like this, and I know some edit meshes and textures as well). I personally made the slave Dark Elves as the playable Dark Elf, as well as restoring (?) the Dark Elf used for the portrait compared to the slightly different one that is playable in the base game (I can share if one wants/if it is possible to, unsure about copyright stuff, don't want to give trouble).
I also used this game to better learn both Italian and English, but the Italian voice acting (which was wonderful for me) is missing from GOG (unsure about the Steam version). Don't know if I can share it here, but if needed, even just for archive sake, do let me know!
Hope this is the right section for this. I didn't see Sacred around here, so I wanted to share
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