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The Faery Tale Adventure: Book I
DOS1987 MicroIllusions
Fable
DOS1996 Simbiosis Interactive
Fable (1996) is one of those DOS curiosities that feels like it was built late at night with equal parts ambition and caffeine. It presents itself as a fantasy role-playing experie...
Mixed-up Mother Goose
DOS1987 Sierra On-Line
The Black Cauldron
DOS1986freeware Sierra On-Line
Mixed-up Fairy Tales
DOS1991 Sierra On-Line
Adventure in Serenia
DOS1982 Sierra On-Line
Before heroes had inventory screens and voice acting, there was Adventure in Serenia, the lovechild of a text parser and a fever dream. Released in 1982, this proto-graphic adventu...
Knight Orc
DOSMac OS1987 Level 9 Computing
Knight Orc (1987, DOS/Mac) flips the fantasy script: you’re not the hero, you’re the orc. Tired of being slaughtered by noble knights, you decide it’s payback tim...
Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!
DOS1990 The Learning Company
The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1994protectedremake Cyan Worlds
The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition (1994, Windows/Mac) is the kind of game that makes you feel like you’ve fallen into a dream. Created by the same minds behind Myst, it...
The Wizard of Oz
DOS1985 Windham Classics
Once Upon a Forest
DOS1995 Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corporation
A gentle adventure inspired by the animated film, Once Upon a Forest (1995, DOS) delivers an eco-friendly story wrapped in side-scrolling gameplay. You guide three tiny forest crea...
Fairy Tale Adventure 2: Halls of the Dead
DOSWindows XP/98/951997 The Dreamers Guild
Fairy Tale Adventure 2: Halls of the Dead (1997) continues its predecessor’s tradition of sprawling fantasy exploration with a darker, more dangerous edge. Available on DOS a...
The Castle of Dr. Malvado
DOS2001
Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom
DOS1993
Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom looks like a cousin of Prince of Persia who dropped out of school to study magic mushrooms. You play a vaguely heroic dude exploring a crumbling kingdom f...
Gnome Ranger
DOS1987 Level 9 Computing
Gnome Ranger feels like the kind of game that was designed by someone who really loved puzzles but maybe didn’t love explaining them. You control a gnome (clearly a recurring...
Troll's Tale
DOS1984 Sierra On-Line
Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood
DOS1984 Sierra On-Line
Stormlord
DOS1989 Hewson Consultants
Stormlord is an abandoned DOS platform game set in a fantasy world, developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1989 and designed by Raffaele Cecco. There was some controversy...
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
With Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid’s Back, things get a bit more polished, though not necessarily more sane. The puzzles return, along with the dreamlike environments and that pecul...