Quest for Glory 1-5

Quest for Glory 1-5 packages the entire Sierra series — from the original released as Hero's Quest in 1989 through the 1998 finale — as a single bundle. The hook that made the series stand apart from its adventure-game peers was the character system: at the start you pick fighter, thief or magic user, and the choice doesn't just gate combat options but reshapes whole sections of each story. The thief sneaks through plot points the fighter has to bash through; the magic user has access to entire NPCs the other classes never meet.

Each of the five installments is set in its own world, drawn from a different real-world mythological tradition — Germanic fairy tales, Arabian folklore, African legends, Slavic stories, Greek mythology by the final game. Together they form one continuous arc through the world of Gloriana, and the same character travels from one game to the next, importing skills, gold and special items earned earlier rather than restarting from zero.

The writing leans humorous and warm, even when the stakes turn dramatic, and the series sits comfortably in the canon of best-regarded adventure games of its decade. The bundle includes both the original EGA and the later VGA remake of the first game, so you can decide which presentation to start with.