

Its easy to find varying versions of Shandalar, though, and they're all roughly the same, with little quirks here and there. Unfortunately, for reasons that I don't think we quite ever figured out, someone began a harassment campaign and called the person's real phone number, found their place of work, and sent a bunch of threatening messages, so the whole project was scrapped and, as far as I can tell, removed from the internet. Many moons ago, there was a helpful person who was working on a variety of Shandalar projects, and provided a forum with downloads for a couple stages of updates, going from no-patches, original Shandalar, up to a version with modern cards from the mid-2000s.

Maybe someone who had the disk could copy it for you, but then it wouldn't run on your computer without a fair bit of legwork yourself. I don't believe it is possible to find a regular-old version of Shandalar currently. It has a fair amount of changes from regular Shandalar, it has the Spells of the Ancients expansion, it has Manalink, and it has a bunch of cards added. Everything is unlocked only by playing.Just a note to the question asker: this is a link to the fan-updated, patched version of Shandalar. No In App Purchases – the price of the game is the price of the game. Infinite replayability – easily 50 hours to see the majority of the content More than 70 monsters carefully catalogued in the Bestiary as you encounter them

Over 300 cards, ranging from the defensive Kick and Armor to the devastating Meteor and Curse of Doom Carefully choosing which cards to add to your deck is the heart of the game: wise choices will find you slicing through monsters while poor ones will leave you tripping over your own two feet.ġ3 different classes, with wildly different play styles For example, a thief starts with a handful of Slice cards and a Backstab, but can learn defensive moves like Dodge or powerful finishing moves like Coup de Grace. Your abilities are a deck of cards that you develop as you gain power. As you progress, your characters earn achievements, each making your future runs a little easier or more interesting.Ĭombat is a card game. One floor might find your wizard in the crypt, another your warrior underwater, and a third, your assassin stalking a volcanic wasteland. Explore randomly generated levels as one of 13 classes in short, 30 minute, sessions. Dream Quest is a roguelike deckbuilding game inspired by the likes of Ascension, Magic: the Gathering, and Shandalar.
