Dragon Wars

This is one of my favorite old school games - I used to play it on my Commodore 128 way back in the day!

This is a 34 year old game. Would have been part of the Bard's Tale series. Company factors intervened. A well written satire of global politics in the G HW Bush administration.

Classic game, requires a brain!

I bought this game when it came out. It is similar to the Bard's Tale series of games.

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I came into this game with no expectations at all, purely interested because there was an Amiga version and lately I've been interested on the subject matter. Although the Steam version is the DOS version, I hooked it up to an Amiga emulator and played the Amiga version which is superior to the DOS version. This game is surprisingly very open ended, boasting 6 ways to exit Purgatory (beginning location), and giving you freedom in the way you can approach the main quest line - the order of the way of doing things, how to do things, and multiple ways of resolving quests/areas. Weapon and spell information is a black box - but nothing which cannot be solved through the use of some online material. Paragraph referencing can also be quickly looked up online. I like how the game rewards exploration - that's the way you get good loot and upgrading to new weapons and armour makes a big difference. Inventory management is a minor nuisance overall, once you get going with the keyboard shortcuts it's not really cumbersome (small inventory was a bit of a pain at the end though). Using macros is a must to expedite bandaging and simple attacks/dodge against weaker encounters. If this ever had to be remastered, adding assets to the empty rooms would be one of the few changes I'd make to the game + more transparent combat information.