by Wally Monk originally published 14 March 2025
In the 1980s. the popularity of Games Workshop’s Talisman prompted the company to promote other games with the tagline “From the Makers of Talisman!”
DungeonQuest was one such game. Known for being very brutal, it’s said that a game could with merely the flip of a handful of tiles. The good thing about DQ was that it could be played solo, and given the lethality of gameplay, a single person or group could play a couple of games in an evening.
DungeonQuest is a fantasy-themed dungeon crawl released by Games Workshop in 1987. It was first published in Sweden as Drakborgen (Dragon Keep) in 1985 by Alga, a subsidiary of BRIO AB. It was sold in Norway (Skatten i borgen) and Denmark (Drageborgen) and later licensed to Germany (Schmidt Spiele) as Drachenhort. A 2nd edition named Drakborgen Legenden was released in 2002 (but never released outside Sweden). The game was re-licensed to FFG in 2010.
The Fantasy Flight Games version included 6 miniatures based on their world of Terrinoth – each of the characters in their DungeonQuest game has equivalent characters in the dungeon crawler Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2nd Edition).
Miniatures painted by Adam Smith of Noice Miniatures.
The Games Workshop release of DungeonQuest included 4 plastic miniatures. The expansion Heroes for DungeonQuest includes 12 metal Citadel Miniatures and character cards for each and new cards and tokens for the base game.
Miniatures painted by Adam Smith of Noice Miniatures.