Simon the Sorcerer

Simon the Sorcerer

released on Jan 02, 1993

Simon the Sorcerer

released on Jan 02, 1993

Simon the Sorcerer is an adventure game that was released by Adventure Soft on 2 January 1993 for Amiga and DOS formats. The game's name comes from the account of Simon the Sorcerer in Acts 8. The game includes parodies of various popular books and fairy tales, including Rapunzel, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Jack and the Beanstalk and the Three Billy Goats Gruff.


Also in series

Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens
Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens
Simon the Sorcerer 3D
Simon the Sorcerer 3D
Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack
Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack
Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball
Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball
Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe

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La historia tiene un humor que poco o nada tiene que envidiar a las de Lucas Arts, con una traducción magnífica con sus correspondientes chistes y personajes famosos españoles «de la época» (Marta Sánchez, Leticia Sabater, Julio Iglesias…)

No tuve que mirar guías o gameplays para acabármelo, apenas me quede atascada en un par de sitios y el propio juego me indicó el camino a seguir, escuchando a sus personajes o buscando algún objeto que me faltaba. Y la inestimable ayuda de mi compañero de aventuras el cuaderno y el boli.

El paseo por el bosque, y el duelo con la bruja han sido mis partes favoritas, siendo este último uno de los puzles más dificilillos que me he encontrado.

Un juego, que al minuto de sus títulos de crédito ya me hace sacar una sonrisa, ese juego para mí, ya tiene el 10 asegurado.

Pero no sólo su humor es brillante desde el minuto uno, este juego posee una banda sonora que va cambiando de pantalla, y es de las mejores que he escuchado. Acompaña al personaje y a la escena al 100%.

Su entorno 2D en pixel art es precioso, me atrevería a decir que es de los mejores que he visto y junto con la historia, hacen de este juego uno de los mejores (y más cortitos por desgracia) que han pasado por mis manos.

More on the simpler side of the adventure games. They were only like 3 or 4 moon logic puzzles buts most of the time it was just a matter of exploring to get the answer.
What really stands out its the animation and graphics. A lot of attention had been put into the forest with little details of wildlife going around just for the sake of fleshing out the world.
The bad part its that you can see they rushed the game at the end with several useless items and a rushed out ending. Even if they play it as a joke. Most of the dialogue its pretty good and fun but it suffers for too many joke dialogue that goes nowhere.
Also the mixing its all over the places, some rooms have really loud music and quiet speech making me turn off the music most of the times. I know it can be editted in the ini file but i finished in one sitting so I didn't had the chance.
In the end its a light fun p&c adventure game with some rough edges
I played the talkie version from GoG, the original in scummvm and its weird that it comes with no subtitles .

one of the few games that instils a feeling of childlike wonder while making my snigger at some of its very elaborate punchlines. great comedy game.

I'm rating this by modern standards, so like most adventure games of its era, it's really easy to get stuck by missing some little detail.

Also the story isn't much either.