Its the Dark Age. Cast away from the surface of the Earth by the disappearance of the sun, Mankind lived hidden underground in the Fortress of Arx. Humans only have magic left to survive against Ratmen, Dragons and starvation... But a much greater danger is hovering above the world of Arx Fatalis. Lurking in the eternal darkness of the mines, it feeds off the innocent souls of the city. It is not a monster. It is not human. It is pure evil. The adventure has just started, and soon, the fate of Arx, will be in your hands.
This cover image has been burned into my memory since the game's release, and it always bothered me that there was never a better quality version of the image except the foreign DVD case covers with logos and fonts and the uploaded image here on games Moddb.com page. That's why I looked into it again (Mar 26th, 2024). First I used different search engines, then compared all version I had found and I think that's the original image from artist portfolio.
To complete it, I upscaled it with ESRGAN and removed the border around it. The size of the Original image is 1024x792 pixels.
Source: Artsytoad.tumblr.com
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