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‘Avernum 2: Crystal Souls’ Is Back On The App Store

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Friends, 2015 has been an emotional roller-coaster for mobile RPG fans. There’s been the business with The World Ends With You ($17.99) and its update, the teasing of a new Baldur’s Gate game, and the long-awaited announcement of Final Fantasy 7. Then there was Avernum 2: Crystal Souls ($9.99), a release that seemed as open-and-shut as anything you could imagine. That is, until it wasn’t.

Just before Crystal Souls launched, Apple released iOS 8.3, an update that seemed to cause a few more compatibility issues than the average incremental update. Unfortunately, Crystal Souls was one of the games afflicted, and upon investigating the issue, Spiderweb Software decided to pull the game and suspend further development on iOS. The issues were apparently too deep to deal with, and the potential financial return didn’t seem worth it. It was a pretty sad outcome for a great RPG developer who has shown the platform plenty of love, but these things happen.

A couple of weeks ago, just as suddenly, Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb made an excellent, if somewhat sobering, blog post about how it was the poor state of his health at the time that was largely to blame for his exit. He was feeling better, he said, and was able to crack the problem. While he didn’t go into specifics, it seemed pretty certain that both Crystal Souls and Spiderweb games in general would be back to iOS before too long. That ended up being sooner than most of us expected, because Avernum 2: Crystal Souls is now back on the App Store in fixed form and available to purchase.

We’ll have a full review as soon as we can, but Spiderweb isn’t exactly known for their lack of consistency, so it’s safe to say that if you enjoyed any of their other games, this one should be up your alley. Now, let’s hope the back half of 2015 is a little bit less exciting for all of us, yes?

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