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Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation

Role-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)Adventure

Time to beat: about 15 hours
Plays offline: Yes

Overview

Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation, titled Dragon Warrior III when initially localized to North America, is a 1988 role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix. It is the third installment in the Dragon Quest series and was first released for the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan and later for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America. The game saw an enhanced remake for the Super Famicom (the Japanese release of the Super NES) in 1996 and the Game Boy Color in 2001, and a port to mobile phones and the Wii in 2009 and 2011. A version of the game for Android and iOS was released in Japan on September 25, 2014, and worldwide as Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation on December 4, 2014. It was the first time the game was given an official English subtitle. Later in 2021, another remake of the game titled Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, based on the graphical style introduced with Octopath Traveler (2018), was announced to coincide with the franchise's 35th anniversary. The remake was released worldwide on November 14th, 2024 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series consoles.

The first three Dragon Quest games are all part of the same overarching story, collectively known as the "Erdrick trilogy". However, Dragon Quest III is a distant prequel to the previous two games, taking place long before the events of the first game. It follows the Hero destined to earn the title of "Erdrick," who must take up his father's quest to save the world from the villainous archfiend Baramos. Gathering a group of companions into a party, the Hero must travel the world, stopping at various towns and locations, and gather the strength needed to take the archfiend down.