Drakensang
Released Mar 2009
Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular role-play system. Drakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0.
81% positive · 797 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $9.99
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Evaluation
Drakensang is a single-player party-based RPG that launched on March 9, 2009. The store description presents it as a complete, self-contained experience — a full campaign with main and side quests, a detailed character creation system, and a rich tactical combat system rooted in The Dark Eye pen-and-paper rules. There is no DLC listed, no post-launch update history, no roadmap, and no developer communications indicating any planned additional content. The game was clearly shipped as a finished product and has received no further content development in the years since its release. Radon Labs, the developer, closed down in 2009 shortly after the game's release. This game is a complete, standalone RPG with no outstanding content or development concerns.
Evidence
Store description presents Drakensang as a complete, standalone RPG with a full campaign, character creation, and combat system — no mention of DLC, updates, or ongoing content.
Short description confirms the game as a finished product based on The Dark Eye ruleset, with no references to future content or live service elements.
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Developer
Publisher
DTP Entertainment
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Platform
Windows
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular role-play system.
Drakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0. The developers have optimized the rulebook specially for the PC realization in order to make the game more accessible. But the essential qualities and the depth of the original rules have not been compromised.
Intensive tactical combat and intriguing quests, embedded in a wonderfully detailed 3D graphic presentation these are the cornerstones of the fantasy epic.
Drakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0. The developers have optimized the rulebook specially for the PC realization in order to make the game more accessible. But the essential qualities and the depth of the original rules have not been compromised.
Intensive tactical combat and intriguing quests, embedded in a wonderfully detailed 3D graphic presentation these are the cornerstones of the fantasy epic.
- Experience an exciting story within a huge campaign involving numerous main and side quests
- Adventure groups with up to four adventurers
- Expert character-creation mode for experienced DSA fans
- More than 40 spells, with over 30 talents and almost 40 special abilities allow a large range of possibilities for character creation
- Numerous and varied enemies and monsters from the DSA universe, such as linnorms, ogres, undead mules, giant amoeba and many more
- Story by original DSA authors
- Rule-compliant implementation of the DSA licence in the tradition of the Nordland Trilogy
- Tactical combat system with pause function
- Varied and flexible magic system
- Talent-based dialogue system
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Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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