Tera: la cité des crânes

Tera: la cité des crânes (Tera: The City of Skulls; in French, titles are always sentence case ) is a role-playing game released in in France only. The developers used the pseudonyms "Ulysses" and "Lout". The game was published by.

Tera: la cité des crânes is abandonware.

Tera is one of the earliest French-only role-playing games. One year later, Ulysses developed Karma, a spiritual sequel to Tera that uses the same engine.

Gameplay
Tera is one of the earliest French role-playing games, after Tyr Ann and Fer & flamme ("Iron and Flame"). Since Tyr Ann is a maze game with minimal role-playing elements, and Fer & flamme is almost unplayable due to bugs, Tera: la cité des crânes remains the earliest fully-playable French role-playing game.

Similar games
The game features:
 * Tile-based, first-person navigation of a world consisting of an overworld connecting a limited number of dungeons, similar to .
 * Random generation of first-person dungeons (as in Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness), but also random-generation of world surface (as in Ultima 0: Akalabeth).
 * Turn-based, first person combat, similar to , but with less options.
 * Party members of different classes, each to be recruited in a specific location (anyway maintaining the aforementioned random factor), similar to Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, but with more unique skills.

Did the game do anything original? Yes, indeed: the science-fiction setting!