It was developed by Micro Forté, published by Strategic Studies Group and distributed by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Commodore 64/128 and MS-DOS.

[1] Fire King is a game where the player can choose to play as one of six characters, first appearing in a room located above the town square in Stormhaven Bay.

[2] The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #158 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

[2] Douglas Seacat of Computer Gaming World noted, "The synthesis of action and RPG is an interesting, if not altogether successful one."

Seacat praised the plot, but noted the pace of the action did not match the slow-paced inventory system, commenting, "The entire game just seems to have a rough edge, as if it weren't finished yet.