In this remake, the player has the role of the dragon Nightshade, who has been captured by the evil wizard Garth and thrown into the dungeons.

Nightshade seeks a way out of the castle and a way to destroy Grath for his campaign to wipe out dragonkind from the land of Salac.

The game is a point-and-click adventure which has some similarities to Shadowgate and Déjà Vu, but it entirely lacks music and sound.

Nightshade can die in certain encounters, forcing the player to restart or reload a save file.

The game was coded in Visual Basic[3] and the graphics created using Microsoft Paintbrush.