On: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that ...

[Noxwizard]

Epic MegaGames had some great shareware games: https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/epic-megagames

I remember playing OverKill a lot and I think we actually ended up purchasing the full game to unlock the remaining planets.

[aidenn0 → Noxwizard]

ZZT and One Must Fall 2097 were my favorites.

[sli → Noxwizard]

Once I get my arms around gamedev a little more, one of my planned projects is a remake of Fire Fight[0], which isn't on this list but it's still in the spirit of the thread.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Fight

[indigodaddy → Noxwizard]

Are they related to today’s Epic?

[CUViper → indigodaddy]

Yes -- they dropped the "Mega" in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games