And sure enough, when I went to restore, there were four characters in a party that had names I did not give them. So frustrating because otherwise everything seems awesome about this game.
EDIT: A little research indicates that it just has a crazy way of handling parties. You have to start the game with a command line argument.
https://www.gog.com/forum/the_dark_heart_of_uukrul/cannot_save
@OlliSaurus Not in the manual that I saw, but on the gog.com forum, you have to use the name of your party as a command line argument. Then the game will correctly load your save game with that party.
I'm not THAT upset, and the gog forums are a godsend for this sort of thing. I bet the game was called the Light Heart of Uukrul before their QA group discovered this bit though 😀
@icecreamjonsey it was a different time back then. The character creation was almost a game on itself. I loved it and never crossed my mind using pregenerated characters!
Now a days I can't. Having to generate a party implies too much commitment to understand the rules even before starting to play the actual game 😅
@icecreamjonsey also: The Dark Heart of Uukrul is notoriously buggy, careful there 😂
It is one of those games that I loved to read about in magazines bitd, but when I finally got to play many years later it was a big disappointment.
Bard's Tale was a better experience if still quite rough.