game's story and elements were partially inspired by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Snow Queen, and Disney animated films, and relies heavily on surreal humor and slapstick. It contains several Easter egg pop culture references, including the shop called "Benn's Costume Shop" complete with a costume of Batman, a band named "The Slugs" consisting of four humanoid slugs, getting into a frozen realm through a wardrobe, and encountering the wreck of Marie Celeste. Other connections might be accidental, such as its likeness to Lure of the Temptress, another fantasy adventure game that was developed at the same time (released in June 1992). Stuart Campbell, who described as Curse of Enchantia as "a funny version of Lure of the Temptress with a different plot," was not the only one who noted the two games' similarities to each other, especially regarding the initial dungeon-escape scenes in both games. As written in adventure gaming magazine Red Herring, "obvious similarities abound as you find that: 'the downtrodden villagers are praying for a return to a peaceful life, and the death of the evil one', which Is pretty much what they are doing in Lure of the Temptress." Curse of Enchantia was officially revealed under this title at the European Computer Trade Show (ECTS) in April 1992, after missing the original March/April release date announced when it was known as Zeloria. The game was planned to be released in September 1992, but got delayed again to November 1992. The game's original release was accompanied by a promotional campaign with valuable prizes (computers and money) in some magazines such as France's Joystick. Owners of computers with newer PC operating systems need to run it using DOSBox. Curse of Enchantia was one of the first CD-ROM adventure games, however it can not be played from the CD directly and had to be installed on the hard drive. Virgin Games bundled it with many of the earliest PC CD-ROM drives in 1993. The game was also re-released on CD as part of Encore Multipack, together with Heimdall and Thunderhawk. Reception Critical reception of Curse of Enchantia was mostly positive, especially in regard to its graphics and animation. According to The One, overall the game "was reasonably well-received." However, the game was derided by some for its confusing user interface system, often illogical puzzle solutions and what some reviewers thought was