Phantasie

A group of six adventurers explores the Isle of Gelnor and tries to defeat the evil Black Knights and their sorcerer leader, Nikademus.

Players can choose to be one of six character classes, all drawn from Dungeons & Dragons: Thief, Fighter, Ranger, Monk, Priest, and Wizard. Each character class has unique fighting styles and options and all characters can choose their strategy for a particular round in the turn-based combat segments.

Creator Winston Douglas Wood stated that the Wizardry and Ultima were his inspirations when creating Phantasie, while basic mechanics of combat and character development were inspired by the fantasy role-playing game RuneQuest.

Regarding the inspiration behind the character of Nikademus, Wood said that he read Tolkien and studied Greek mythology and culture, including The Chronicles of Narnia and other fantasy novels, using all elements from them as inspiration. The name of the character comes from Nicodemus, a character from the book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH; he thought that it sounded like a bad-guy name but also realized that it was also the name of a Biblical character, and he changed the spelling of the character Nicodemus to Nikademus.

With more than 50,000 copies sold in North America, Phantasie was very successful for SSI. By the end of 1987, it was the company's best-selling Commodore 64 game.

In Issue 120 of Dragon, Hartley and Pattie Lesser complimented the Atari ST version of Phantasie, recommending that Atari ST owners should "consider Phantasie as a game well-worth their attention".