Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario (1987) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario

The fourth game in the Wizardry series, The Return of Werdna takes a decidedly different approach from all the games that preceded it. Instead of playing as a party of six player-generated characters, the…

5 May 1987

What Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario is

Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Sir-tech Software and released in 1987. It was published by ASCII Corporation. It is available on Apple II, DOS and Sharp X1.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Five years have passed since I captured the mystical amulet from the Mad Overlord Trebor. His agents had only been a few hours ahead of me in obtaining the artifact. The amulet had lain hanging around the neck of a forgotten god's statue in an ancient crumbling Temple. Whose Temple it once was is now whispered faintly only in ancient and forbidden tomes. Never is the full name used, perhaps for fear of invoking something dreadful that might be merely slumbering. The mist enshrouded valley that hides the Temple has been known throughout time as the Gods' Hopyard, supposedly because of a great portal that was opened one night by a demented archmage. It is said in arcane legends that on that…

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 Wizardry series

Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario is the sixth of 48 entries we hold in the Wizardry series. It arrived a year after Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. The next entry was Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord in 1987.

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