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Dragon Wars cover art

Dragon Wars

Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2017-05-26

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

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.

1
playing now
91%
positive of 23 reviews
Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 88% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.99-20%
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 13 of 27 observed days · $7.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.392015-05-292026-08-302015-05-29 — 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 $7.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

89112026-05-30 — 13 pageviews2026-06-02 — 23 pageviews2026-06-05 — 14 pageviews2026-06-08 — 21 pageviews2026-06-11 — 22 pageviews2026-06-14 — 22 pageviews2026-06-17 — 36 pageviews2026-06-20 — 15 pageviews2026-06-23 — 11 pageviews2026-06-26 — 17 pageviews2026-06-29 — 28 pageviews2026-07-02 — 21 pageviews2026-07-05 — 19 pageviews2026-07-08 — 23 pageviews2026-07-11 — 17 pageviews2026-07-14 — 21 pageviews2026-07-17 — 17 pageviews2026-07-20 — 19 pageviews2026-07-23 — 22 pageviews2026-07-26 — 25 pageviews2026-07-29 — 18 pageviews2026-08-01 — 21 pageviews2026-08-04 — 20 pageviews2026-08-07 — 71 pageviews2026-08-10 — 57 pageviews2026-08-13 — 33 pageviews2026-08-16 — 21 pageviews2026-08-19 — 25 pageviews2026-08-22 — 22 pageviews2026-08-25 — 39 pageviews2026-08-27 — 33 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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