To achieve the objective, the player must collect many herbs scattered across the map and mix them in a cauldron to make offensive and defensive spells.

The spells vary from fireballs and lightning to invisibility and even turning peaceful villagers into zombies.

Leanoric, as a non-player character, has to do the same thing, collecting herbs to mix in his cauldron before hunting down in order to attack.

This required designing the game on paper before development started and overseeing the work of a different programming team.

[1] Robert Swan for Atari User magazine praised the game for its "fantastic" graphics, "great" sound, "addictive" gameplay and the low price.