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Shard of Spring

DOS - 1987

Also released on: Apple II - Commodore 64

Alt name The Shard of Spring
Year 1987
Platform DOS
Released in United States
Genre Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme Fantasy, Turn-based
Publisher Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Developer Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Perspective Top-Down
Dosbox support Supported on current version (works best on 0.65)
4.13 / 5 - 8 votes

Description of Shard of Spring

Quietly released by SSI in 1986 and 1987 were 2 PC conversions of their classic Apple II RPGs: Demon's Winter and The Shard of Spring. Both games are solid "conventional" RPGs (i.e. top-down view, lots of loot and monsters) which emphasizes level advancement and typical "kill the big foozle" endgame.

In Demon's Winter, you must search the lands and seas for spells to trap the demon-god Malifon and undo his mystical curse. Entertaining and very well-written, if not revolutionary.

Review By HOTUD

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Comments and reviews

Kevo 2022-04-16 0 point

Loved this game! Never finished it.

Jiveman 2014-09-08 0 point DOS version

I can't get this one to work. When it starts and answer the first question I get the following error: Illegal function call in module USERLIB at addess 8ed8:041a. I am using D-Fend Reloaded. Any ideas how to get this one to work?

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Other Releases

Shard of Spring was also released on the following systems:

Apple II

Commodore 64

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