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The game is a simplified computer roleplay where the player is asked to fetch objects from various towns and dungeons to help gain experience. Along the way, he has to fight various monsters. The player can also go to shops to buy useful potions, weapons and scrolls to enhance his fighting ability, as well as not-so-useful items. Stats are measured in bars such as food, spirit, health, stamina, etc. — these stats can be depleted and restored at any time, but leveling up increases how much ''overall'' you have of each. He can also cast various preset spells to aid in killing monsters, replenishing stats, etc. For the final task, the player is asked to kill a prisoner, who actually turns out to be a good person. Regardless of whether or not the prisoner is killed, the player then discovers that the TaskMaker is evil, and has to kill him to win the game. The Taskmaker will insta-kill you if you killed the Prisoner.

Due to management issues at the corporate level, the sequel was largely rushed and had many unused dungeons, as well as several glitches. Storm Impact collapsed soon afterward, and the game was never heard of again until David Cook, one of the programmers, released a version 1.0.1 of ''Tomb'' on his personal website in July 2008.

 

* [[Abandonware]]: After Storm Impact dissolved, the creators posted registration codes online so that all three of Storm Impact's popular games (the two TaskMakers and a skiing simulation called ''MacSki'') could be registered for free. Since then, however, Cook has posted the games (and a third late-1990s game called Asterbamm, which was a critical failure) on his website, and charges $10 for registration codes.

* [[An Adventurer Is You]]: In ''Tomb'', the player can choose to be male or female, and a fighter, magician or thief. Naturally, fighters, magicians and thieves all have different abilities, [[Purely Aesthetic Gender|although gender doesn't matter besides some changes in graphics and sound effects]].