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Fighting Fantasy Legends
Developer Nomad Games
Create your own adventures in a dangerous land of monsters, treasures and traps. From renowned authors Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone (co-founders of Games Workshop) and Nomad Games, Fighting Fantasy Legends is a role-playing card game set in the world of Fighting Fantasy. From the Steam store page
120 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Aug 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
55
Mixed
66 positive · 53 negative
95% range 47–64%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
120 of 190 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 120 · most liked firstThis is a card game version of three gamebooks with a top down 3D environment simply for illustration. There are many FF games on Steam, from book ports, to game versions like this. FF Legends is based on the books City of Thieves, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Citadel of Chaos. Firetop already has a game version on Steam, the game mechanic here is different, you're not making any movement choices in combat, it's your card vs. the opponent card and you roll against each other for the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Firstly, there is relatively little text in this game, so in that sense it is not like a Fighting Fantasy book. It does faithfully recreate the events of City of Thieves in the Port Blacksand section, but the way it works seems very much a grind. There is no way to save game or retrace steps, which means if you wish to try turning left rather than right at a given intersection you must return to the start of the city and complete the earlier section again. There seems to be no way of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a 40-something that remembers these gamebooks fondly, this game is a real treat, even more so than the Tin Man gaming reproductions of the books that have been available here on steam for a while. This book ties in 3 of the first 4 fantasy game books from the early 1980's into one long quest quite well. It is an amazing buy for 10$ and I am left hoping that they will quickly add other books to the existing system.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well Let's see . as a Fighting Fantasy Books fans lets see some PROS and CONS of this product PROS : The graphic is not bad compare to the books / Game Progress is easy enough to understand / and the text is quite simplify CONS : The meaning less character creation few variety of skills and perks / The Mood Breaking Dice roll that even 12 Dice roll give you 1 or NO damage at all what the HELL is that!!!? it's not even reasonable / the cruel Luck test that give you BIG damage no matter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like many, I grew up reading the Fighting Fantasy series. Each book taking you on an adventure where you would battle ferocious monsters and try to defeat villainous tyrants. You might not always win but that was the point. The next time you read the book you could make different choices and learn from your previous mistakes. Playing Fight Fantasy Legends evokes exactly that same feeling, except this time, you are on a huge adventure to defeat three of the Fighting Fantasy series' greatest…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having gown up in the golden age of Fighting Fantashy I looked forward to this game, and I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. This is an amazing game it brought flooding back teen days working my way through Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Citadel of Chaos sheer bliss. In itself the game does what it says on the tin a journey round a part of Titan meeting the bad guys from the books simple to play but lots of choices to make which can affect the outcome of play. The achivements also fit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok. This probably sounds contradicting. Yes, I have spent hours playing this game. I completed it once. Still, I cannot recommend it. Why? Because it is frustratingly random. The mechanics, the story - everything is bizarre. I walk into a tavern and approach the barkeeper. He draws his dagger shouting he doesn't serve strangers. I attack. He opens a trapdoor behind the bar and a troll jumps out. I kill the troll. The barkeeper apologizes and offers me a free drink. Seriously? Very few options,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was expecting rich art and writing, like the Fighting Fantasy books, but almost all of that has been removed in favour of single-sentence text boxes and bland graphics. The repetitive music doesn't help either. There's just not much to keep me interested.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like all Fighting Fantasy adaptations of recent years - be they by Tin Man, inkle, or whomever - this product highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of the classic gamebooks in a jiffy. Went left instead of right? Can't complete the quest now, since you're missing a key object. Chose to enter that house or room, rather than the one opposite it? Prepare to die! In a world chock-full of change, it's almost reassuring to know that some things never do. But wait, there's a twist in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Saga of Baldar, The Ultimate Warrior: Baldar wandered into the sewers of Port Blacksand, in search of hags. After a couple of hours (and beers) of wandering, he found no hags. However, he had become a rather wealthy, rather lucky killing machine that could cut through a couple of city guards with a single swing of his rat-blood encrusted axe. He soon became the terror of Port Blacksand, cutting down the citizenry without remorse. The merchants (the ones he hadn't killed), however,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels empty with no real passion. The characters feel lifeless and the atmosphere is not eerie, its yawnfull. It's a high price for an 'meh' game. Theirs alot of $10-ish games out their that give so much more. Maby i should give it more time. But if its a bore out of the gate, then its probable a bore all the way through. Needs a music overhaul to simulate life in the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok, I've never heard of 'Fighting Fantasy' before I picked up this game, but watching some pre-release video of the game made it look interesting. It's a fun time-burner at a $10 price point, but after about 20 hours or so sunk into the game there's nothing left to do. Basically I'd describe it by calling it a Choose-your-own-adventure book meets an RPG. The combat system is dice-based, but encounters are card drawn. As you progress in the game, you earn more faces for your die, improving…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When you die the game makes you repeat a lot, and I mean a lot of steps that do not pose any challenge and is just a waste of time. It is not very fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like me loved playing the FF game books then you will most definetely love this game. Full of references from the novels and with gameplay that is slightly less random and luck oriented and somewhat more forgiving than the book series. Still manages to recreate the brutal and cruel worlds full of traps and monsters that were originally weaved by ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. Other than that the game looks good and sounds good, but sadly is missing any kind of dialogue which leaves…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9 out of 10. Great "classic RPG" of sorts, feels a lot of what some old tabletop games were like. My only complain would be the motive of the story. Our hero just gets into his/her quest out of nowhere. "Hey my town is in danger, I need your help hero!" "Take this sword, this bag of money, and go kill the Evil Lord" And then you must go on this quest that has probably nothing to do with you anyway. Aside from that, I'm loving it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked the look of this game when I saw it. Then I played it. Not enough variation. You never die. You just wake up half dead someplace without knowing how you got there. Then you have to do everything all over again. In pretty much the exact same way you did it all before. Do that a few times an it just ends up as being pointless and boring. The Sorcery series is far better if you like this sort of thing. And far cheaper. But I would like to think this is just a fail that can be learned…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good so far, plays just like the Fighting Fantasy books, gameplay is exactly what I was expecting, very happy so far. This plays like a visual novel / dungeons and dragons style rpg hybrid.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Essentially this is some the early FF books in semi-randomised video game form, but with jankier mechanics. MUCH jankier. Just track down the original gamebooks, instead. They've been republished a bunch of times.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like Ian Livingstone & Steve Jackson's classic gamebooks then you will most likely love this new format game. It takes the basic elements of their classic books "The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain", "The Citadel Of Chaos" & "City Of Thieves" and builds them into a combined trilogy adventure, but with various twists. The combat system uses different style dice, which can be upgraded/penalised and the encounters in many locations are drawn from a random card pack (monsters/events/items…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An afwful conversion of three gamebooks. It misses the linear and memorizing of the original stories and instead throws in a lot of random encounters, leveling up is really hard and every time you die to some random event one of your dice will be cursed.(Which then again costs money to remove). Also the AI is plain cheating in this game, they always throw higher then you even when having alot less dice. No, not recommend, I'll stick to the original gamebooks or some remakes on computer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really liked this game at first. I really got the vibe of reading those old "choose your adventure" books so long ago. However, that vibe was ruined by a huge pacing problem; namely, using stupid trial and error as a core game mechanism. You could say all those old books used it to an extent, but it is really bad in this form, as you cannot just flip back to the page before you took the bad action. Problem is, at many key points in the game, the only way to progress is to stumble upon the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Whilst it is certainly an ambitious concept to connect three classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook stories (The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos and City of Thieves) into one singular experience, ultimately this game is far too short to really recommend for the asking price. I completed the game's major quests in under four hours and unfortunately don't feel compelled enough to replay on the higher difficulties. The RNG can be quite brutal at times which led to a slightly inflated…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I never 'played' the books, but this seems like a fun little RPG choose your own adventure game. How much replayability it will have is open for debate since I assume you will just have the same basic adventures over and over again. I would suggest this is a good little 5 buck game rather than 10 bucks unless you are a fan of the source materials. The graphics were failry nice and I liked the music. I just think they need a bigger soundtrack and more boss battle songs. I think they should get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →want to love this. Its like a dnd campaign on rails super easy and enjoyable for comfy rpg gamers but it freezes into a crash every 3 minutes on the steam deck even though its verified.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While this game starts out quite interesting, there are a number of flaws that make it not worth a recommendation, unless you simply wish to have it for nostalgia purposes due to having played Fighting Fantasy games before. The difficulty of the game is a minor issue, in that it does not come from skill. Some of the choices you are many would consider to be "unfair", but a guide or simply replaying would solve those, so they are not what I mean. This game intends for you to die/get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is only good for nostalgia. Things that count against it: Playing on any difficulty but the first simply makes it require more grinding. The game gets easier as you go, with the difficulty decreasing. Bosses become anti-climatic. Leveling is best done on small spawn, thus boring hours spent grinding the sewers in the background. Several achievements are missable. No good Save system! You can only have one game going at a time, and starting a new game seems to wipe the old one out! Mixed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frustrating and terrible game. The concept idea is very good, combining 3 classic Fighting Fantasy adventures into one single game world, with pretty graphics and random events. Very nice. Unfortunately, the game is ruined by RNG to the point that It's unplayble. Your skill and luck scores do not create a reliable margin of success like the original adventure books rules. In here, if you have 12 skill, it means that you will throw 12 dice each with 1 chance of success. You do not add anything…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →saving game doesn't work, developer ignores problem for months, so negative comment I don't recommend to buy it, it means wasted money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is absolutely the best of all the Fighting Fantasy licensed games. Rather than being a detailed copy of any one book your character sets out on an adventure where he or she will encounter aspects of several of the books be they puzzles, locations, friendly characters or enemies. It works in a similar way with dice rolls and descriptive passages but (unless you selected the nigh impossible ironman mode) your character will improve over time and progress becomes easier. For instance, after…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've completed the 3 main quests on the first difficulty level. Yes, there is a lot of grind and replaying the same events over and over, but that's half the fun - discovering alternative routes and alternative solutions to the puzzles. Replayability comes in the way of the two further diffculty levels (Hero and Legend?) which I've not played through fully, but if I do so, I will update this review. All in all, it was a nostalgic lookback at the original gaming books, and if you were a fan of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An incredibly frustrating game. Not sure if I am the most unlucky person ever but I couldn't get a success on any roll to save my life. Literally. Where as my NPC opponents continually roll like 5 of the 6 sides of their dice are successes. From what little I've seen of the story I'm probably better off sitting in my basement and rolling weighted (to fail) dice in my basement and yell at those dice.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refunded. Not what I expected at all. I thought as a card game, I would be able to hold some cards in my hand, choose actions, etc. Nothing like that at all. You roll dice, more dice, be amazed at the constant crappy results, and choose a new path to roll more dice. It felt very lifeless and random. I didn't feel connected to the character in any way, or the game world. Game wasn't for me. Maybe I was expecting too much for a pc game. Looks like a good enough time waster for mobile…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great atmospheric game based around the Fighting Fantasy books. Good artwork, game design, and UI. Loads of replayability. NB:- You must like RNG.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The overall setup is promising but the mechanics ruin it. Not a good game, I don't recommend buying it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game teaches you one thing above all others -- IF YOU GAMBLE AGAINST THE HOUSE, YOU WILL LOSE. The game has so much luck involved in it, that decision making much less any kind of skill become irrelevant. You are a slave of the dice, and because the dice are not in your favor, you will lose -- often quickly and repeatedly. I am a huge fan of the fighting fantasy franchise -- but this is one little foray I'd just as soon not taken. If you want a real fighting fantasy fix, go with "Warlock…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a good game. I love fighting fantasy, and this comes close to being fun, but it is like they didn't play test it. The punishments are too harsh for failure. Edit: I went back and replayed it with Cheat Engine and made the game more playable. I stand by my original review. I've played this game for a few hours and beaten it. I've seen all it has to off and I can appreciate many thing about it, but it fails so hard. FFL completely ruins warlock of firetop mountain, and because that is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't recommend this enough, it is a fantastic adaptation of three classic Fighting Fantasy books into a single game. It remains very faithful to the original content, encounters and monsters while allowing more freedom to explore through different options in the manner of a classic top-down exploration RPG popular in the 90's. There are around 20 hours of good quality, really enjoyable content in the main quest lines, and even more if you go for all the achievements and secrets, well worth the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't keep your finger on the previous page in this version but otherwise 10/10!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it is just a good game at a good price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fighting Fantasy Legends is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. The game carries the somewhat valuable Fighting Fantasy branding and takes you through generic Fighting Fantasy gamebook adventures with a more mobile phone friendly interface, as you explore the City of Thieves (famous from Book 5), Port Blacksand, and other locations and fight the usual generic fantasy monsters that made the game books…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i didn't really like the dice system. this is basically a text adventure jazzed up with 2d backgrounds. each die starts with 1 success symbol and each level up you can add to them but rolls tend to be under 5 successes per roll. do to this rolling dice feel awful. there is also no backtracking and you can't speed up animations. sorry, i tried but i didn't like the core concept of this game so i couldn't enjoy it. 4/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have just completed all the quests that I have received so far. My monster compendium is only at 80%, so there is definately more for me to do. The game is so easy to play and I love all the random events, well except those black cats cursing my dice!! A totally different game to most on the market and I really enjoyed it. This was a high quality game. I bought it because I play Talisman a lot, from the same people at Nomad games and although it has been many years since I have seen the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great rendition of the first 3 Final Fantasy books based in the world of Titan. I like that fact they could at some stage add a few more adventurers in the Dark Forest (use Yaztromo more) or Fang (Deathtrap Dungeon) for example. The dungeons are easy enough to remember and all up you ll spend about 10-11 hours completing everything on adventure difficulty - it will take alot longer on harder difficulties.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GREAT adaptation of three Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, all in one game. Very different from Tin Man Games' recent adaptation of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (which is also one of the three books adapted here), but very very fun. Also, Legend difficulty is flipping hard as HECK. Just not dying enough to get your hero off the ground is incredibly challenging!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, if you ever played Fighting Fantasy and you don't buy this game, then you are missing out on some hardcore nostalgia.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is unplayable if you have a 3440x1440 resolution screen, because some of the screen is cut off. I have asked on the forums if there will be a fix for it but was told there was not a problem at that resolution by the devs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very Kool Game! If you are a fighting Fantasy Fan, get it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SHORT REVIEW This is a cRPG version of three of the early Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos and City of Thieves). The game is presented in a top down 2D environment for illustration purposes and encounters are via an encounter card deck with a dice based conflict resolution system. PLOT: Seems to be a reasonable translation of the books although I'm going from memory and it was getting on for 40 years ago! GAMEPLAY: Dice based conflict resolution…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rather prone to locking up sadly. Seems to be an issue that's either down to the autosave function or a conflict with current sound drivers. I'll try it again on older hardware at some point.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As in fighting fantasy Legends Portal - I would recommend this game as fun to play and value for money but with the one major proviso that the battles are strictly luck ONLY - IE the roll of a dice - no skill or strategy involved - the challenge lies in finding the artefacts on you journey and reaching your destination - The City of Thieves in particular will probably take you quite a few attempts especially as there is a sting in the tail regarding the artefacts you need to find - artwork…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its only value is nostalgia. Horrible gameplay, a mix of "find the right path through trial and error" plus a heavy dose of random rolls so you can fail even if you do everything right.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The roll system is rediculous, you can be beaten by anyone if RNG is unfavorable, and there is no point to having more luck as all of the dice rolls are predetermined on the ammount you can roll. Trash game even in a humble bundle.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Combat system is even more random then the original game books, high skill isn't nearly as helpful for winning because you're rolling dice = to skill and hoping for the one face that hits vs 2d6 + skill from the gamebooks. Being even more random then the books themselves is a bad thing, no actual "game" here due to that. The overall layout/setup is promising but mechanics ruin it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Fighting Fantasy serie got me into roleplay and tabletop games and late Dungeon & Dragons and Warhammer and its really nice to see its a classic RPG game now on PC. The Fighting Fantasy Legends is a perfect mix with three of the best books The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos and City of Thieves. Sadly the campaign is ultra short, but its is worth it. Pros: - Classic dice mechanisme - Great option for replayability Cons: - Ultra short campaign and story
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was a huge fan of the FF books, and I still have my collection. The stories bear close resemblences to the game books, but they're somewhat randomized, and not self-contained. (You may need stuff from other adventure locations, to complete the one you're playing) They reworked the character creation and battle mechanics, and personally I don't think it's for the better. You get to choose from 3 different characters (barbarian, dwarf, elf), except they're all the same, with the same skills,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really nice "board/paper RPG" translated to videogame. You read the storytelling and it gives you choices to make, you roll the dice to see if you pass the checks based on your stats and what you rolled. Good storytelling, many choices, and a nice enough art style to keep it interesting visually as well. I really enjoy playing this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A challenging, faithful adaptation to three classic Fighting Fantasy Adventure gamebooks. I've seen it referred to as a "card game", but the main combat and luck mechanics are dice based. Knowledge and items gained from exploring the many different options presented to you will provide the most efficient and safest paths to success, but it will take you a few goes to learn them! Fantastic journey back to my formative years while I wait for the relaunched paperback versions to arrive :)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, loyal in many ways to the original Fighting Fantasy game books. Plenty of replayability and potential for future expansions.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are a fan of the FF game books then you will love this game. When you start you can choose one of three characters, and then adjust the skill and luck dice, which also adjusts your starting health. You also get to choose from a list of skills which can really help you a lot if you choose the right one or two. As you play your level goes up, giving you the chance to add more chances for a sucess on your skill or luck dice, as well as adding to your health. When you first start out you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fighting Fantasy has seen something of a rebirth over the past three years in the form of comics, new book releases and a video game. Each have been very hit and miss among the old school fans of this brand but NomadGames have sailed through creating not one but three adventure games with an ariel view of the world of Titan reminiscent of the good old 80s computer games such as Gauntlet or Druid. Not only have they padded areas such as Port Blacksand and Firetop Mountain out with multiple nods…
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