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Harpies

Creatures theme

Women (or hags as they're more often called) with wings in place of arms and bird's clawed feet.

45
games
21
platforms

Name variations: harpy

Stronghold (MS-DOS)
Stronghold
DOS 1993
Ys: The Oath in Felghana (Windows)
Ys: The Oath in Felghana
WIN 2005
Daggerfall (MS-DOS)
Daggerfall
DOS 1996-08-31
Moria (Linux)
Moria
LIN ? *
Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements
NES 1989-11-10
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (PlayStation 3)
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
PS3 2013-04-26
Deathtrap (Windows)
Deathtrap
WIN 2015-02-04
Dragon's Crown (PlayStation 3)
Dragon's Crown
PS3 2013-07
Monster Combat (DEC PDP-1)
Monster Combat
PDP1 198?
Nightmare Creatures (Windows)
Nightmare Creatures
WIN 1998
Armies of Exigo (Windows)
Armies of Exigo
WIN 2004-11-30
Final Fantasy II (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Final Fantasy II
NES 1988-12-17
Related:
* Hags
Some variations have the harpies with both arms and wings and more humane shape otherwise, but these are rarer and deviate from the concept quite a bit.

Originally harpies were about as ugly as hags, but modern depictions have harpies nearing depictions of succubi in terms of beauty.

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Parent groups

Greco-Roman mythology, Legendary creatures, Mixed creatures

Games by year

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The first Harpies video game was released in 1983.

Capcom, Over the Top Games and Square published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 14
Linux 7
NES 4
MS-DOS 2
PS3 2
BSD 1
Tandy Coco 1
PS 1
Mac OS Classic 1
PSP 1
Wii 1
DEC PDP-1 1
OS/2 1
Mac OS X 1
Internet Only 1
NEC PC9801 1
Arcade 1
GamePark 32 1
SNES 1
NeXT 1
Unix 1

Most common companies

Capcom3
Over the Top Games3
Square2
SSI2
Blizzard2
Citeremis2
Devolver Digital2
NeocoreGames2