Reception Secret of the Silver Blades was very successful, with SSI selling 167,214 copies. It was the last Gold Box game to sell more than 100,000. Scorpia of Computer Gaming World in 1990 wrote that "Secret of the Silver Blades could easily have been sub-titled 'Hackmania'" because of the game's emphasis of combat, and stated that it was the most linear of the Gold Box series. She liked the game's story, and concluded that it was "a typical product in the Forgotten Realms series", most appealing to fans of Gold Box or hack and slash games. In 1993 she stated that it was the "most boring" Gold Box game and "for hard-core slicer/dicers only". The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #163 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. According to GameSpy, "Secret of the Silver Blades would never reach the "classic" status of much of SSI's previous work". British gaming magazine Amiga Action gave Secret of the Silver Blades an overall score of 87%, acknowledging that the game is very similar to its predecessors, but goes on to state: "The good thing is that they follow on from each other very well. "[Silver Blades is] one of the best RPGs around. If you miss this one then you're a fool". Amiga Action also praised new features in the game such as the ability to port characters from previous installments and new monsters, rating it above Champions of Krynn, an earlier installment in the series. References External links Review in Compute! 1990 video games Amiga games Classic Mac OS games Commodore 64 games Commodore 128 games DOS games Forgotten Realms video games Gold Box NEC PC-9801 games Role-playing video games Single-player video games Strategic Simulations games Tactical role-playing video games Video games developed in the United States Video games featuring protagonists of selectable gender Video games with oblique graphics WizardWorks games