Jorpho wrote:

I tried doing a Google search for <"sword.exe" "dos">, but that only turned up Sword of Aragorn, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, The Sword of Frost, and Lamentation Sword, none of which seem to be likely candidates.

Maybe it's some ancient shareware game.

I think too it was some less known shareware game. Probably it wasn't even a great one but the only thing I remember is a mental image of a second of gameplay. 😵
In those years Stunts was the game I played every days.