He was taken away by the evil Dracolich for unknown reasons, and brave adventurers have risen up to try to rescue him.

The player must progress through areas (Palace, Catacomb, Abyss) in order to proceed and finish the main storyline.

Egoboo currently features eleven playable character classes, each with its own unique abilities and skills.

When the player completes a starter module, the character is saved and can enter the other areas of the game.

It can be used when no weapons are in the characters hand to heal nearby allies, or it can be channeled by special Relics with even more powerful effects.

Egoboo is not yet considered to be complete, though it has been in development for approximately 25 years, with new versions being released periodically.

Egoboo has its own scripting language that is used for editing all objects (which includes characters, items, monsters, furniture, etc.).

[10] Egoboo has achieved some popularity in the open-source gaming community, has been downloaded over 590,000 times until July 2016,[2] and has been integrated in several linux distributions.

[11][12] Egoboo received reception from various game and open-source focussed news outlets over the years.

[13][14][15] Due to the source code availability the game was ported later by other communities to new platforms as well, like the OpenPandora handheld device.