Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, a Playthrough Report. December’s DOS Game Club game was Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, a role-playing masterpiece from ORIGIN Systems released in 1992 that clearly was lighyears ahead of its time. For reference, this game was released a month before Wolfenstein 3D, and even DOOM a full year later was not able to manage some of the capabilities of the 3D engine (swinging doors, jumping/flying, fully polygonal objects like the benches and shrine, ...