The king and queen gave birth to two children, Alexander and Rosella, and the kingdom was once peaceful. It wasn't long until Alexander was snatched from his crib and things started to take a turn for the worse. A three-headed dragon threatens the ever-peaceful Daventry, and requires a maiden to be sacrificed every year. Rosella is the chosen one.

Alexander, meanwhile, is taken to a faraway land of Llewdor. Named Gwydion, Alexander becomes a slave to an evil wizard called Manannan who prepares to kill Alexander on his 18th birthday, for fear that he would discover the wizard's spells and use them against him.

King's Quest III: To Heir is Human is an adventure game; as in any other game using the AGI engine, you move your hero, Alexander, with arrow keys and control his actions by typing commands (which are typically verb/noun phrases).

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Alternate Titles

"KQ3" -- Common abbreviation
"King's Quest III" -- In-game title

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An imaginative installment, in which the series really starts to blossom	DOS	Jayson Firestorm (153)
Possibly the challenging King's Quest ever made	DOS	Katakis (37451)
Quite possibly the most challenging KQ in the series, one of the best too!	DOS	OlSkool_Gamer (99)

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The Press Says

Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	Nov 20, 1998	4 out of 5	80
Techtite	DOS	2000		80
Tilt	DOS	Apr, 1987	16 out of 20	80
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Atari ST	Oct, 1987	740 out of 1000	74
Just Games Retro	DOS	Jul 14, 2007		70
Adventure-Treff	DOS	Jul 23, 2011		70
Adventure Gamers	DOS	Nov 24, 2005		70
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1993	62 out of 100	62

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Trivia

While not being a formal copy protection scheme, you needed the manual to complete this game. It contained spells that you eventually used to advance in the quest. However, Compute's "Official book of King's Quest" did list all of them and one could purchase a copy for half the price of the game if the manual was "lost".

In the years after KQ3 was published, the idea of using the manual as a copy protection technique became a de facto with almost every games until the CD-ROM replaced diskettes as the distribution media.

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