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Synopsis

A loose adaptation of the pair of 1986 fantasy gamebooks, this game gives a single player the ability to control the actions of The Quarry (player's choice of barbarian, priest, or thief), a slave who is once a year selected to temporarily run free, before being slaughtered in the Valley of Gad, hunted by its cruel ruler the Archveult, and tortured to death. Survival is only possible by escaping the valley or killing the hunter. (A second player has the option to control the pursuing Archveult simultaneously in split-screen mode.)

The duel that the game sets up is just the latest of many threats - the game imposes countless respawning enemies on players' paths, which must be killed endlessly with the press of the attack button (and their random loot gathered with a tap of a different button) while always remaining on the move and trying to complete a shopping list of incremental objectives necessary for greater success, "useful" appearing on screen at all times in the most versions.

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