Fantasy Empires

A Dungeons & Dragons wargame set in Mystara.

Released in 1993 for MS-DOS, Fantasy Empires blends role-playing with wargaming. Developed by Silicon Knights and published by Strategic Simulations, it operates under the Dungeons & Dragons license within the fictional realm of Mystara.

Quick Facts

Developer

Silicon Knights

Publisher

Strategic Simulations

Producer

Nicholas Beliaeff; Charles J. Kroegel Jr.

Designer

Scott Collie
Denis Dyack
Rick Goertz

Programmer

Denis Dyack; Rick Goertz

Artist

Scott Collie

Composer

Denis Dyack; Eric Heberling

Series

Mystara

Facts from the source article.

Reception

Computer Gaming World in 1994 stated that Fantasy Empires succeeds at all levels, praising randomized countries and seamless integration of human and computer opponents. Sandy Petersen reviewed it in Dragon #207, giving 3 out of 5 stars. The German magazine POWERPLAY rated the 1993 floppy disk version 61%. GameSpy described it as a solid and fun strategy game and an oddly forgotten credit for an excellent developer.

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