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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
 

"King Graham must take on a vengeful wizard in order to win back his castle and imprisoned royal family."


Developer Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
1990
Platform PC , Mac, Retro
Perspective Third-Person
Presentation 2D or 2.5D
Control Point-and-click
Gameplay Quest
Graphic Style Stylized art
Media CD, 3.5" diskettes, Proprietary format
Genre Fantasy
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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder review
KQV's technical achievements speak for themselves, but the gameplay will leave many not giving a hoot.
Score: ***
May 25, 2007


Content Ratings
US rating (ESRB)

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King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
King's Quest III: To Heir is Human
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown

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King's Quest 9
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
King's Quest: Mask Of Eternity
Shivers Two: Harvest of Souls
Lighthouse: The Dark Being
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Shivers
Torin's Passage
Phantasmagoria
Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
Dagger Of Amon Ra, The (A Laura Bow Mystery)
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
Pepper's Adventures in Time
Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
Police Quest: Open Season (Daryl F. Gates')
EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Police Quest 3: The Kindred
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
Codename: ICEMAN
Colonel's Bequest, The (A Laura Bow Mystery)
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero
Gold Rush!
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter
King's Quest III: To Heir is Human
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown
Technical Information
Version info
Re-released as part of the King's Quest Collection Series (1999) and the King’s Quest Collection (2006).

System requirements
1999 Collection Series:
MS-DOS or Windows 3.1/95
486/25 MHz processor
8 MB RAM
2x CD-ROM drive
SVGA 640x480, 256 color
Sound card with DAC

2006 Collection:
Windows 2000/XP
Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent Athlon processor
128 MB RAM
Windows compatible video and sound card
CD-ROM drive
1.2 GB hard drive space

Known issues
n/a


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