King's Quest V

Released

1990-11-09

User rating

4.08 / 5

Genres

Adventure

Platforms

PC, NES, Classic Macintosh, Commodore / Amiga

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Game details · IGDB

King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder is an adventure game in the long-running King's Quest series. Players control King Graham as he embarks on a quest to rescue the Royal Family of Daventry, who have mysteriously disappeared. The game takes place in a fantasy world filled with magic and peril, where Graham must overcome obstacles and solve puzzles to progress. As the fifth installment in the series created by Roberta Williams, King's Quest V builds upon the graphical adventure game format that Williams pioneered, combining text and visuals to create an immersive storytelling e…

Released

1990

Genres

Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure

Platforms

PC-9800 Series, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, FM Towns, Amiga

Game modes

Single player

Engine

Sierra's Creative Interpreter

Developer

Sierra On-Line

Publisher

Activision, Sierra On-Line

Wikidata facts

Instance of

video game

Genre

adventure video game

Country of origin

United States

Publisher

Sierra Entertainment

Series

King's Quest

Developer

Sierra Entertainment

Platform

Classic Mac OS

Game mode

single-player video game

Distribution format

floppy disk

Image

SierraOnLine-Box-KingsQuest5.jpg

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