| Dunjonquest | |
|---|---|
 Logo used to identify games belonging to the series on manuals and sides of packaging | |
| Genre(s) | Dungeon crawl RPG |
| Developer(s) | Epyx |
| Publisher(s) | Epyx |
| Creator(s) | Jon Freeman Jim Connelley Jeff Johnson |
| Platform(s) | TRS-80, Commodore PET, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, IBM PC, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga, Mac, Amstrad CPC |
| First release | Temple of Apshai August 1979 |
| Latest release | Temple of Apshai Trilogy (16-bit) 1986 |
Dunjonquest is a series of single-player, single-character fantasy computer role-playing games by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx). Temple of Apshai was the most successful and most widely ported game in the series. The games relied on strategy and pen & paper RPG style rules and statistics.
There were two types of Dunjonquest games:
- Temple of Apshai, Hellfire Warrior and related expansions for both are of the larger type, and contain four dungeons each with detailed room descriptions and no time limit. These games contain an "Innkeeper" program, where the player character is created and equipment can be sold and bought. Character statistics can also be put in manually, and floppy disk versions allow to save the character between sessions. The dungeons are reset upon each visit.
- Datestones of Ryn, Morloc's Tower and Sorcerer of Siva are confined to a single, smaller dungeon, and the player has to achieve a goal within a time limit. They have no room descriptions and no Innkeeper program, and the player character is predefined. Due to their size, these games were sold at half the price of the larger titles. Datestones of Ryn and Morloc's Tower were marketed under the MicroQuest label, which was dropped for the larger Sorcerer of Siva.
The Dunjonquest games were ported across a wide variety of late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s home computers.