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Sword of Fargoal cover art

Sword of Fargoal

Epyx, Inc. · Pixel Games UK · 2022-12-16

Steam

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: 1983 (Commodore C64/128/MAX), 1982 (Commodore VIC-20), Dec 16, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In this classic roguelike, released in 1983 for the Commodore 64 by Epyx, search the dark depths of a twisted dungeon, teeming with fiendish enemies and dangerous traps, for the legendary Sword of Fargoal, the only thing that can defeat the evil wizard Umla.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 26 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-09-23 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Sword of Fargoal is a dungeon exploration video game developed by Jeff McCord and published by Epyx for the VIC-20 in 1982. It was later published for the Commodore 64 in 1983. The game was originally released on cassette tape and 5¼" floppy disk formats.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 77% of 19,675 Adventure games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2023-05-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$1.492022-12-162026-03-262022-12-16 — best price $2.692022-12-23 — best price $2.992023-05-29 — best price $1.492023-06-05 — best price $2.992023-06-30 — best price $1.492023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-12-22 — best price $1.492024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-03-14 — best price $1.942024-03-21 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $1.492024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-12-20 — best price $1.492025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $1.492025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.492025-10-06 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-03-26 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGMagicRetroFantasyStrategyTop-DownAdventureOld SchoolRogue-like

Census log

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

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