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Realms of Arkania 1 - Blade of Destiny Classic cover art

Realms of Arkania 1 - Blade of Destiny Classic

attic Entertainment Software GmbH · United Independent Entertainment · 2014-01-10

SteamGOG

RPG

Franchise: The Dark Eye · Modes: Single player

Releases: 1992 (Amiga), Apr 1992 (DOS), Mar 14, 2014 (Linux), Jan 10, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 14, 2014 (Mac)

Blade of Destiny (1992) is the first part of the glorious Realms of Arkania Trilogy...An Orc army stands ready to attack Arkania's villages and towns. The only hope of saving the land lies in the legendary Blade of Destiny. Can you find this magical weapon in time to stop the siege?

5
playing now
73%
positive of 153 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.89
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny is a role-playing video game developed by Attic Entertainment Software. It was the first game based on the German pen & paper RPG system The Dark Eye by Schmidt Spiele. The original German version of the game was released in 1992. Due to its success it was translated to English and released by Sir-Tech in 1993.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 65% of 6,171 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.8k–9.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 153 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.89-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.30 at GamersGate (2019-08-29) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.402015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $0.802015-06-22 — best price $3.992015-11-27 — best price $0.992016-01-04 — best price $3.992016-08-25 — best price $3.992017-04-06 — best price $0.892017-07-22 — best price $3.992018-01-04 — best price $3.992018-10-13 — best price $1.992018-11-29 — best price $0.402019-02-12 — best price $3.992019-07-10 — best price $3.992019-08-20 — best price $3.992019-10-30 — best price $0.902019-12-02 — best price $0.602019-12-26 — best price $0.602020-01-28 — best price $3.992020-06-25 — best price $1.192020-08-07 — best price $3.992020-11-03 — best price $3.992021-01-05 — best price $3.992021-04-10 — best price $1.592021-06-24 — best price $1.192021-10-29 — best price $3.992021-11-27 — best price $0.892022-01-06 — best price $3.992022-07-07 — best price $3.992023-01-05 — best price $3.992023-07-15 — best price $0.592024-01-18 — best price $0.592024-08-29 — best price $0.592024-12-19 — best price $0.892025-04-03 — best price $2.992025-09-06 — best price $2.992026-02-03 — best price $2.992026-08-24 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

RPGCRPGRetroClassicFantasyAdventureTurn-BasedFirst-PersonDungeon CrawlerParty-Based RPG

Census log

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

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