I've managed to ger this running in DOSBOX-X and it looks intriguing; a real piece of arcana from 1979 although I am playing v 3.0 from 1986 which ostensibly looks the same as the screen displayed here.

Apart from a flagrant bug whereby your inventory is always listed as empty this game is rather good. Once you have managed to elude the very annoying (and usually deadly) wolf there are multiple entrances underground and very evocative descriptions. Take a skull you find buried in the rubble and a long narrative unfolds detailing an entire skeleton slowly rising from the debris, reassembling itself, grabbing a sword and administering the coup de grace. I was metaphorically in a Ray Harryhausen film during this scene.

Sadly this game has proven too buggy to really continue. The lamp only lasts for two hundred moves before the batteries die; reading the Word document that came with the game itself the phial is supposed to provide you with a secondary and permanent light source when it is filled with a glowing liquid. If however you fill it (it is henceforth described as glowing) it still fails to light up any room locations. I suspect a conditional flag has been incorrectly set. Given the size of the game it is not possible to solve it before the flashlight dies.

There is another amusing bug whereby you can dip yourself into the magic bowl and the "me" dissolves! This then dumps you into a garbage screen with a sword that you can't leave. Together with the fact the inventory command parses nothing makes it ultimately unplayable. This is a shame as it showed real promise up to the light source impasse.

And I call myself a seasoned adventurer! Apologies to the programmers as I was too dim to see that the phial's lack of light was due to me not seeing there was another part to the puzzle that was unsolved. I literally had a Eureka moment. I can cope with the inventory not working (although I am now wondering if I am missing something there as well).

Alas there were some extra bugs waiting for me at the staircase that descends from Level 2 to Level 3. It is impossible to go down although the staircase heads downwards. There is also a pit that you can't enter that should be accessible. I have had a look at the source code and there is nothing that a cursory examination reveals to be the culprit or culprits. There is also more inventory weirdness as the blank inventory partially reveals itself if you stack objects in the gold cage (that must be one capacious cage). However it also claims that you are carrying the stairway landing around with you and duplicates some objects incorrectly. All in all it is not a great lesson in coding. And a classic typo - mistletoe is spelled "missiletoe." I thought maybe this was a deliberate pun and you could throw or launch the object but no, it is just atrocious spelling. I am only half surprised that the game isn't called "Kwest."