The game's influences draw heavily from the occult, with the Master Therion in the plot below a reference to Aleister Crowley.

The player controls the neophyte wizard Axil the Able and must help him escape from the dungeons below the castle of Colloden's Pile.

This a keyboard-only game, and uses a set of commands (called "Merphish" in-game)[4] such as the standard north, south, east and west (N,S,E,W) and some additional unique commands such as invoke (I), freeze (f), and blast (b) which cast spells.

The dungeon itself is separated into several distinct levels which Axil can travel to and from at will provided he can find the staircases up or down.

[2] Reviews of the game were highly positive all round,[citation needed] with the only common criticism being the blocky graphics.