Discworld (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Discworld

Discworld is a game released for PC (subsequently Mac, and Playstation) by Teeny Weeny / Perfect 10 studios in 1995. The game was released both on floppy disk and CD-Rom. The latter featured a commentary team…

70 17 March 1995

What Discworld is

Discworld is an adventure game developed by Perfect 10 Productions and released in 1995. It was published by Dro Soft. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Sega CD, DOS and Mac.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A typically nasty secret order has summoned up a dragon, and is using it to wreak havoc upon the city. But it's not down to Carrot and co to stop it. It's down to Rincewind, the highly inept wizard. The player takes control of him, and try to save the city from destruction, in a journey that takes you from Ankh-Morpork to the edge of the Disc and beyond. The game incorporates many characters from non-Rincewind Discworld adventures, such as Nanny Ogg, The Ankh-Morpork guards, Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler, Trolls, the Patrician and Death.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Discworld holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Players rate it 77, 7 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Discworld launched on 17 March 1995, within three weeks of Chrono Trigger, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent and Front Mission. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Chrono Trigger, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent, Front Mission.

Cheats and codes

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