Dragonsphere

A nostalgic pixel art for free... incredible sound and puzzles. The puzzles in Dragonsphere are intuitive and inventive. Among the best puzzles in the game is a clever sequence in which the player must piece together parts of the Soptus Ecliptus language from conversations with various characters. This puzzle integrates seamlessly into the story and is very enjoyable to solve. Yet, many of the puzzles in the game are quite difficult and require serious thought. Enjoy it!!!

The GOG LINUX installer is superb! Works perfectely on my Knoppix7.4 / Linux / DOSbox : )

Story: 3/5 Worldbuilding: 2/5 Art Design: 4/5 Graphics: 3/5 Sound: 4/5 Gameplay: 3/5

Very good story, well-rounded characters and a couple of nice twists. Nice to see that the good memories I had of this game held up quite well.

Most of the really old games I've gotten for free from GoG have been unplayably terrible. They're free for a reason usually, so no surprise there really. This one, however, was actually surprisingly good. For a 25-year old game, the graphics and animation are excellent, a lot better than the large majority of the recent pixel art point and click adventure games. The story in Dragonsphere was well done, and at least for the first part of the game, the puzzles were too. About halfway, through (at the point you reach the sorcerer's tower), the puzzles just go completely in the toilet. It was worth playing through to the end for me to wrap up the story, but at a certain point I mostly gave up on trying to decipher the game designers' moon logic and/or obscure pixel hunting clues and just went straight through to the end with a walkthrough open.