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Dragon Wars cover art

Dragon Wars

Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2017-05-26

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: 1989 (Apple II), 1989 (Commodore C64/128/MAX), 1990 (Amiga), Aug 09, 1991 (Family Computer), 1990 (Apple IIGS), 1990 (DOS)

From the designer's of Bard's Tale comes a story-telling RPG with over 60 monsters, 65 spells and hours of exploration and turn-based combat where your decisions matter.

Dragon Wars is a 2017 Adventure and RPG game priced at $9.99, with a Positive review sentiment (91% of 23 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000.

0
playing now
91%
positive of 23 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Dragon Wars is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by Rebecca Heineman, published by Interplay Productions in 1989, and distributed by Activision.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 75% of 28,754 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.39 at GOG (2015-11-04)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 23 of 66 observed days · $7.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220172026Week of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.392015-05-292026-10-142015-05-29 — best price $5.992016-01-03 — best price $5.992016-07-15 — best price $2.392017-05-27 — best price $5.992017-10-27 — best price $4.992017-12-18 — best price $3.392018-02-21 — best price $9.992018-05-08 — best price $9.992018-07-24 — best price $9.992018-10-30 — best price $3.392018-12-17 — best price $9.992019-03-04 — best price $9.992019-08-19 — best price $3.392019-12-11 — best price $3.392020-01-31 — best price $9.992020-08-03 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-24 — best price $7.992023-01-06 — best price $7.992023-07-04 — best price $9.992023-10-03 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-06-13 — best price $9.992024-09-28 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $7.992025-03-13 — best price $7.992025-06-12 — best price $9.992025-08-26 — best price $7.992025-11-05 — best price $9.992026-02-04 — best price $9.992026-08-20 — best price $7.992026-09-04 — best price $9.992026-09-12 — best price $9.992026-09-20 — best price $9.992026-09-28 — best price $7.992026-10-06 — best price $7.992026-10-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

89112026-05-30 — 13 pageviews2026-06-03 — 14 pageviews2026-06-07 — 16 pageviews2026-06-11 — 22 pageviews2026-06-15 — 27 pageviews2026-06-19 — 16 pageviews2026-06-23 — 11 pageviews2026-06-27 — 23 pageviews2026-07-01 — 15 pageviews2026-07-05 — 19 pageviews2026-07-09 — 18 pageviews2026-07-13 — 20 pageviews2026-07-17 — 17 pageviews2026-07-21 — 19 pageviews2026-07-25 — 32 pageviews2026-07-29 — 18 pageviews2026-08-02 — 20 pageviews2026-08-06 — 20 pageviews2026-08-10 — 57 pageviews2026-08-14 — 40 pageviews2026-08-18 — 23 pageviews2026-08-22 — 22 pageviews2026-08-26 — 22 pageviews2026-08-30 — 33 pageviews2026-09-03 — 78 pageviews2026-09-07 — 23 pageviews2026-09-11 — 23 pageviews2026-09-15 — 32 pageviews2026-09-19 — 17 pageviews2026-09-23 — 18 pageviews2026-09-27 — 21 pageviews2026-10-01 — 13 pageviews2026-10-05 — 18 pageviews2026-10-08 — 27 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPG2.5DCRPGFantasyAdventureStory RichFirst-PersonPixel GraphicsDungeon Crawler

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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