Nox Archaist

Nox Archaist is a role-playing video game released in December 2020 for the then-historical platform Apple II, alongside contemporary macOS and Windows systems. The game was inspired by the early-to-mid Ultima games and The Bard's Tale. The story unfolds in a sword and sorcery setting of a world named Vali: Sent to an island region to investigate a cult, the player character finds companions and undertakes excursions across diverse terrain, encountering NPCs, monsters, and magical hazards along the way. A DLC named Lord of Storms was released in 2023.

Beginning in 2015, development was conducted by 6502 Workshop, a retrocomputing group headed by programmer Megan Lemmert. Programming was done in the assembly language of MOS Technology 6502, the original Apple II processor. The 8-bit game engine is tile-based and uses the HGR mode (280 × 192 pixels). The RAM requirement for the Apple II release is 128k.