Sword Quest 1: The Search

Sword Quest 1: The Search is a video game in the role-playing (rpg) genre and published by NGS Software originally released in 1992. It is currently playable on DOS.

Sword Quest 1: The Search is a single-player, keyboard-controlled fantasy role-playing game.

The player's role is that of court jester to the King of Ferd. An evil sorcerer has unleashed a horde of nasty creatures upon the land - dragons, griffins, goblins, etc. The problem is that you start your quest without weapons and armor, so it is best to avoid combat until you are better equipped. Armor and weapons can be found in caves, etc. , or purchased in towns. or buy them in the cities.

The game starts by creating a character, the game will assign skill points to the three categories of strength, skill and dexterity. The player can roll the dice again until he finds a combination he is satisfied with, at which point he names his character and the game begins.

The entire game is played on a single screen. At the top right is a window showing the character in the landscape, below it and of equal size is the NGS logo. At the top left is the rectangular dialog box in which conversations take place and other game information is displayed. In the middle left are two smaller windows, one showing basic keyboard commands and the other character statistics. At the bottom left is the fight window, which initially shows the game title, but when the player starts moving it shows the enemy he just encountered.

This means that the player moves his character around the landscape, but has to look at the fight window to see if he has run into anything unpleasant and the dialogue window to see how many hit points he receives from an opponent (or loses to said opponent).

There are some basic sound effects in the game, but no autosave.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.