Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements (ダンジョン&マジック, Dungeon & Magic: Swords of Element) is a first-person RPG (similar in vein to Bard's Tale and the various SSI D&D games) produced by Taito in 1989, and programmed by Natsume for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Players explore towns looking for work and through dungeons looking for monsters to defeat. Job listings are posted through every guild. Players can also be apprenticed in elemental magic like wind, fire, water, and earth. The mighty castle of the realm can be found in one of the towns. The task of the game is explained by the elder at the start of the game.

Friendly non-player characters posing as villagers, merchants, and innkeepers either provide quest-related chatter to the player or charge a certain amount of gold in order to render some services. Food and water every time the player stops to rest at either a camp site or at an inn. Levels can only be gained by visiting temples at the right number of experience points and receiving a baptism from the priest.

Players can choose to either save or not to save their game after staying for a night at an inn.

Miscellany

One of the interesting aspects of the game was a magic system where a caster could combine runes from various elements to form new magic spells.

Each element had three unique runes, which allowed for 125 different spells. Unfortunately, many of those "different spells" are actually just fireball spells or curative effects. This game had no "magic point" system, so some spells drained the player's hit points instead.