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Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is a real-time strategy role-playing video game, developed for Microsoft Windows by Liquid Entertainment, and published by Atari in 2005. It takes place in Eberron, one of the…

70 21 September 2005

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Liquid Entertainment, released 21 September 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Liquid Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dragonshard takes place in the world of Eberron. In the creation myth of Eberron, the dragon Khyber warred with his sister Siberys and shattered her body to pieces. In his anger, Khyber's brother Eberron wrapped him in his coils, trapping Khyber. The bodies of the three dragons became the three parts of Eberron's world: the surface Eberron, the Ring of Siberys that encircles Eberron, and the underworld of Khyber. The three world parts produce dragonshards, crystal and rock fragments imbued with magic power. The Heart of Siberys is the largest dragonshard in Eberron. When it fell from the Ring of Siberys to the continent of Xen'drik, it created a storm-swept mountain range known as the Ring…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is the 76th of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. The next entry was Neverwinter Nights: Diamond in 2005. Its critic score of 70 is 3 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Baldur's Gate III at 95.

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How it was received

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard launched on 21 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

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When did Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard come out?
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard was released on 21 September 2005 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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