It is part of the Adventure series of games developed by Scott Adams, preceded by Adventureland, Pirate Adventure, and Strange Odyssey.
A player receives points for depositing treasures and bonus points for performing additional deeds.
The game was reviewed briefly in The Dragon #44 by Mark Herro.
Herro said that this was the toughest game he'd seen so far in the Adventure series.
He also commented that "Scott [Adams] has really outdone himself on this one.