Barton of "Gamasutra" placed "Telengard" alongside "Wizardry" and the in what he deemed "The Silver Age" of computer role-playing games that preceded the golden age of the late 1980s. Yet in 1992, "Computer Gaming World" Gerald Graef wrote that "Telengard" and "Temple of Apshai" were "quickly overshadowed" by the "Wizardry" and "Ultima" series. Some of the game's dungeon features, such as altars, fountains, teleportation cubes, and thrones, were adopted by later games such as "Tunnels of Doom" (1982), and "Sword of Fargoal" (1982) has similar features. Barton wrote in 2007 that "Telengard" "still enjoys considerable appreciation today" and questioned whether the "Diablo" series was "but an updated "Telengard"".