Gateway to the Savage Frontier (1991) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Gateway to the Savage Frontier

As the story opens, you and your companions are celebrating in triumph. The caravan you've been guarding has just completed its dangerous passage to the trading town of Yartar. But the realms are full of…

31 December 1991

What Gateway to the Savage Frontier is

Gateway to the Savage Frontier is an adventure game developed by Stormfront Studios and released in 1991. It was published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It is available on Amiga, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gold Box.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game revolves around a standard (for Gold Box adventures) party of six adventurers who inadvertently get caught up in a plot by the Zhentarim to conquer the entire Frontier area. The storyline, in rough terms, follows: The party starts off in Yartar, having just escorted a caravan from the dwarven stronghold Citadel Adbar (ruled by the dwarf king Harbromm). At the tavern, while the party is enjoying the feast and spirits, something is slipped into their food that causes them to pass out, and they are robbed of all gold and gear, especially the magic longsword that one member used to slay a griffon at Longsaddle. Fortunately, each character keeps a purse of coins under their pillow so…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series

Gateway to the Savage Frontier is the 21st of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. The next entry was Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Secret of the Silver Blades in 1991.

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What it launched against

Gateway to the Savage Frontier launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams and Baseball Stars 2.

Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Baseball Stars 2.

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