Play Dragonsphere Online

Dragonsphere tosses you into King Callash’s fancy shoes right as a sorcerer ruins his coronation—now you’re poking at every pixel, combining weird junk from your inventory, and praying that bucket finally makes sense. The hand-painted scenes almost distract you from how brutally the game punishes wrong verb choices.

Developer: MicroProse Software, Inc.

Released: 1994

File size: 10.34 MB

Game Overview

Dragonsphere is one of those old-school point-and-click adventures that really makes you think before clicking. You play as King Callash, who’s got about five minutes to enjoy his new crown before realizing a sorcerer is about to wreck everything. The puzzles are classic inventory-tinkering—like trying to figure out why that random bucket you picked up three screens ago is suddenly the key to not getting turned into a toad.

The art’s gorgeous for its time—hand-painted backdrops that make you stop and just look around sometimes. And the dialogue? It’s got that snappy MicroProse charm where even the wrong verb choice (looking at you, "push" instead of "pull") can lead to hilariously grim results. Don’t expect hand-holding, though. Half the fun is bumbling into dead ends and realizing you should’ve talked to that suspiciously chatty guard way earlier.

If you miss the days when adventure games let you die in stupid ways just for clicking the wrong thing, this one’s a solid time capsule. Just save often—trust me.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".