Sacrifice

As with many of the games in my current collection, I bought Sacrifice from Good Old Games; true to the name of the vendor, Sacrifice is an old game, originally written for Windows 95. With some caveats, it runs well enough on Ubuntu.

Sacrifice is a combination first-person perspective / real-time strategy game in a fantasy setting. You gain mana by sacrificing souls of creatures, the mana which you then use to cast spells in combat.

Sacrifice installed easily under Wine; getting it to run had occasional problems, the solution of which it seems is to go down to a lower resolution in Ubuntu before starting the game. Once you do get past a few screens, the game runs well enough.

I haven't gone too deep into the game yet, but it looks and sound promising. Sacrifice features a top-notch voice cast, led by Tim Curry.