Incline Games like Ultima 3?

[Bruma Hobo]

Can you recommend some party-based games with soft permadeath (like Wizardry and Ultima 3) and nice open world exploration and NPC interaction? Bonus points if they're not blobbers. I don't like to lose all my progress after a TPK, so games with an optional ironman mode are not enough (also, those games tend to be balanced around the reloadfest anyway).

In before larpers and knights of self-imposed challenges.

 

[V_K]

Not party-based, but Legerdemain has a sort of soft permadeath: inns work as one-time save points. You can still lose all progress, though, if you forget (or don't have enough gold) to check in again after resurrection (happened to me more times than I have patience for).

 

[LizardWizard]

Darklands

 

[Bruma Hobo]

Well, that wasn't what I was looking for, but thank you both anyway.

 

[Sinatar]

You could try the Magic Candle series which is very Ultima like.

 

[Stargazer_]

Sure my friend here's a resource that will give you a list of all Ultima 3 like games good ol pal.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

"A little Christmas present to all #Ultima fans. I found a copy of "Ultimore Egypt" for Ultima III on the #AppleII. This is the first expansion for an Ultima game ever and was lost until now. So go check it out: http://medienistik.de/U3_Egypt.dsk"