Dragon Wars is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by Rebecca Heineman, published by Interplay Productions in 1989, and distributed by Activision.

The story from the back of the original box states: The designers of the Bard's Tale series, Wasteland, and Battle Chess pooled their talents to create the ultimate role-playing fantasy.

Sailing across uncharted seas, you and your party are in search of a legendary paradise called Dilmun — a place where the streets are paved with gold and no one wants for anything.

With the possibility that Interplay would soon be parting ways with Electronic Arts, it was decided to save these for a future game and stick closer to the original engine, though the auto-mapping feature did make it into Bard's Tale III.

To defend against pirated copies of the game, Dragon Wars included a collection of numbered paragraphs within their manual.

A sequel, Dragon Wars 2, was in the concept stage of development around the mid-1990s but was cancelled because of the original's tepid sales figures and RPGs being out of style at the time.