Goblins Quest 3

It is said that there is a mysterious labyrinth harboring great secrets that might fulfill the wishes of those who discover them. Two countries respectively ruled by Queen Xina and King Bodd have been competing over the right to explore the labyrinth. However, strange events started happening one after the other: the guardian of the labyrinth died, his daughter disappeared, and King Bodd apparently fell under some sort of a curse. A goblin reporter named Blount get caught in the midst of these events as he attempts to interview the queen and the king. As if that weren't enough, Blount also gets bitten by a werewolf and falls in love, and must find a way to deal with both predicaments.

Released: 31 December 1993
Platforms: macOS MS-DOS Amiga
Genres: Adventure Point-and-click adventure Puzzle
Developers: Coktel Vision
Publishers: Sierra Entertainment Coktel Vision
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Fantasy Historical Comedy
Age ratings: GRAC 12+
Languages: English

About

Gobliiins is a puzzle adventure video game series released by Coktel Vision (and later Sierra On-Line) for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Mac, iOS, and Windows. There are six games in the series. The first three were released in the early 1990s, the fourth in 2009, the fifth in 2023, and the sixth in 2026. The visual look of the series and its characters were created by French artist Pierre Gilhodes, whose style was used in another game from Coktel Vision: Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth.

Keywords

medieval
scummvm compatible

Media

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Gameplay

The games mix elements of adventure and puzzle gaming. In essence, the player must find the solution to each area (or level), consisting of one or more screens, in order to progress to the next.

An original aspect of the series is that the player usually controls multiple goblins as player characters, each of whom has a unique set of abilities. In the title, the number of letters 'i' in the word "Goblin" indicates the number of characters that the player may control: Gobliiins for the first release (1991), Gobliins 2 for the second (1992), Goblins Quest 3 for the third (1993), Gobliiins 4 for the fourth (2009), Gobliiins 5 for the fifth (2023), and GOBLiiNS6 for the sixth (2026). The player may only control one character at a time but, depending on the specific scene, may switch characters at will. The original Gobliiins features a shared health system for all three characters, which means that leaving characters in the wrong place can be detrimental, though this feature is absent in the sequels.