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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer is a first-person dungeon crawler developed by Lion Entertainment and released for the 3DO in 1994. It is based on the second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ruleset and…

8 September 1994

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Lion Entertainment, released 8 September 1994 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.

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What Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer is

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Lion Entertainment and released in 1994. It was published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer is a first-person dungeon crawler developed by Lion Entertainment and released for the 3DO in 1994. It is based on the second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ruleset and uses fantasy role-playing mechanics. Players create or select a character before exploring procedurally generated dungeons. Gameplay focuses on real-time movement, combat, loot collection, and character progression. Each dungeon ends with a boss encounter, giving the game a repeatable structure built around exploration and survival.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer is the 36th of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. It arrived 8 months after Dungeon Hack. The next entry was Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom in 1994.

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What it launched against

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer launched on 8 September 1994, within three weeks of EarthBound, System Shock (1994), The Need for Speed and Kirby's Dream Course.

Released around the same time: EarthBound, System Shock (1994), The Need for Speed, Kirby's Dream Course.

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When did Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer come out?
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer was released on 8 September 1994 for 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.

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