Gloom Beacon

Gloom Beacon is a highly enjoyable game that will challenge you to utilize your complete strategic thinking. Developed by StrongGames, the game is compatible with Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Playing this game, you will first need to choose the gender and ethnicity of your character. You have a few options which includes dwarf, human, elf, Rooh (a large bird), Kanchhor (a snake), Skogi (resembles a rat), Lahama (type of demon) and Minos (resembles a bull).
Then you get to know about the tale of Oasis, a flourishing trade centre in the past that is now surrounded with darkness and is nowhere to be found. This is because of the Gloom Beacon which had been built by the evil magician Krachont, whose dark beams conceal Oasis every day and night. The citizens of the once prospering trade centre are enslaved, the queen imprisoned, and the king is turned into something of a monster.
After several rescue attempts, no warrior was able to defeat the evil magician and defeat the Dark Tower. However, now it’s your turn, you must fight Krachont and his accomplices to save the city from their dark clinches.
Your character battles it out on a chess-like board that shows allies and enemy units. Each attack or spell will affect your mana and health levels. Additionally, each character will have health points as well as four different types of mana that are essential to cast spells.
All factors considered, Gloom Beacon is certainly in the list of those games that even the most demanding players will enjoy playing.