SierraVault - Documenting Sierra On-Line’s Gaming Legacy
Date: 2026-02-05
If you grew up swapping floppies and arguing about parser verbs, I built something for you.
SierraVault is a comprehensive wiki documenting Sierra On-Line’s complete gaming legacy — from the earliest Hi-Res Adventures in 1980 through the modern fan remakes and spiritual successors still being developed today. It started as a personal Obsidian vault and grew into something much bigger than I originally planned.
What’s Inside
The archive currently covers 511 games across 56 designer biographies, 28 studio profiles, and 46 years of history. Every page is backed by 15–40 citations from original sources — interviews, magazine reviews, postmortems, and developer commentary.
It’s not just the flagship series everyone remembers:
- King’s Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Quest for Glory, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, Laura Bow — the full runs
- Dynamix titles — Tribes, The Incredible Machine, flight sims
- Impressions city builders — Caesar, Pharaoh, Zeus
- Coktel Vision — Gobliiins and the educational catalog
- Fan games — VGA remakes, fan sequels, and mods
- Alumni projects — Hero-U, SpaceVenture, Gray Matter, and more from the original Sierra designers
How It’s Built
The entire vault is written in Obsidian with a research pipeline that crawls sources, cross-references data, and runs every page through a dual-model quality check (Claude + GPT) before anything gets published. Pages that don’t hit 90% quality scores get sent back for revision. Flagship series entries need 95%+.
The live site runs on Obsidian Publish with a self-hostable Quartz mirror as a backup. The full source is on GitHub under CC BY-NC if you want to browse the raw markdown or contribute.
Why Bother
Sierra’s history is scattered across dead forums, archived GeoCities pages, and paywalled magazine scans. A lot of the good stuff is one server failure away from disappearing. I wanted a single, well-sourced place where all of it lives together — the games, the people who made them, and the stories behind them.
If you’re a Sierra fan, go poke around. If you find something missing or wrong, PRs are open.