Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

A retro styled adventure/RPG hybrid with atmosphere like the classics. Play as warrior, sorceress, or rogue as you travel through the rich world of Norse mythology to keep it from eternal winter. Each class has different puzzle solutions, making for good replay value. Fully free, no hidden costs.

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is a adventure, rpg and free to play game developed and published by Crystal Shard.
Released on March 20th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 8 languages: English, Hungarian, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal and German.

It has received 1,356 reviews of which 1,189 were positive and 167 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok into these genres:

Adventure RPG Free to Play Female Protagonist Point & Click Indie Retro Singleplayer Fantasy Pixel Graphics Mythology Magic Story Rich Exploration Hand-drawn Lore-Rich Character Customization Replay Value Nonlinear Family Friendly

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 or newer
Processor: Intel or AMD CPU
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX compatible graphics card
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
Additional Notes: Mouse, keyboard

MacOS

OS: 10.15
Processor: 64-bit
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Storage: 500 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14.0 or compatible
Processor: Intel or AMD CPU
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: SDL compatible graphics card
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: SDL compatible sound card
Additional Notes: Compatible with CentOS 7.2, Debian 8.6, Mint 17, OpenSuSE 12.2

Reviews

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Jan. 2022

Nice take on the Quest for Glory series with some extra RPG elements. If you like old Sierra games then I can't recommend this highly enough.

Feb. 2017

An excellent homage to the Quest for Glory games. Good puzzles, interesting characters, and a fun lighthearted take on Norse mythology. Frankly, I want to see more games like this! Gimmee!

Feb. 2017

This game is great. It totally reminds me of the VGA remake of Quest For Glory 1, down to the 3 character classes. Also it's FREE. The voice acting isn't bad at all. If you grew up on Sierra games with your sweet 640KB of RAM courtesy of MS-DOS, you'll be right at home. Luckily, QEMM isn't required.

Jan. 2017

An insanely accurate and fun homage to the age of DOS adventure games. Start with a ton of Quest for Glory, tenderize with a healthy dose of King's Quest, sprinkle a few flakes of rubbing two unlikely items together (in the fashion of Monkey Island) and you end up with a game I would dare to call both neat and also sharp.

Jan. 2017

This free game is in fact a fully realised point'n'click adventure which I think rivals even the best commercial entries in the genre. It is a wondrous passion project and beautiful homage to Sierra's classic Quest for Glory series. The production values are what you'd expect from a professional release in every conceivable way. Players are treated to glorious 2D art, fully voiced charcaters with commendable performances, beautifully orchestrated score and superb writing, world building and overall game design. And it's what I'd call a 'full-length' adventure. So many point'n'clicks nowadays (especially free ones) are quite short, but Heroine's Quest took me 25 hours which provides ample opportunity to feel deeply immersed in its world. And of course there's 2 more character classes should I decide to play through again sometime down the track. I'm a point'n'click enthusiast from way back and the QfG series, particularly 1 & 4, was my very favourite. Heroine's Quest crafts an original story drawing on Norse mythology and takes all its design cues from the very best of QfG1 & 4, and I couldn't be more thrilled with the result. I dare to say that it's just as good as both of these classic games of the genre.

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Free to play

8.3

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Developer

Crystal Shard

Publisher

Crystal Shard

Release 20 Mar 2014

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