20 years later, DnD classics Demon Stone and Dragonshard are getting upgraded Steam releases

Game publisher SNEG recently announced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard and Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone are coming to Steam with plenty of upgrades.

There's also a Dungeons and Dragons Classics Collection Humble Bundle live with the announcement, where you can get 13 classics from SNEG for £7.40 for the whole lot.

More about each of the re-releases below from the press release.

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

Originally released in 2005, Dragonshard returns in a respectful re-release that quietly modernizes the classic: modern-resolution support, localization-friendly saves and profiles, smoother timers and physics, ASLR compatibility, and other under-the-hood fixes for a cleaner experience on today’s PCs.

• The first DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® Real-Time Strategy Experience
• D&D® game from the Eberron campaign setting
• Game design with two levels of interconnected action: RTS war above ground and critical RPG-styled battles in dungeons below
• Four ranges of controllable units: powerful champions, heroic captains, trainable henchmen, and nearly unstoppable battlefield juggernauts
• Unit development based on 'Experience Points', allowing players to "level up" units - an added RPG twist to the classic RTS gameplay structure
• An innovative village grid system - the "Nexus System" - where choice and placement of buildings can specifically affect units' powers
• Three warring factions, each with its own history, campaigns, unique strengths... and weaknesses.
• Game story by Eberron creator Keith Baker
• A variety of threatening environments, all with the "Hyper Terrain" feature, creating real-time terrain deformation in the wake of unit movements

Update 29/07/25: as pointed out in the comments, it's not actually the first DnD RTS. Clearing this up with SNEG, here's what they said:

I can add even more, in my opinion, the first RTS in D&D was Stronghold that had real-time city building and was released in 1993.

That said, we are not inventing anything new. That’s how the game was officially positioned - https://www.mobygames.com/game/19289/dungeons-dragons-dragonshard/cover/group-28777/cover-92156/ Check the top of the DVD-box cover. This statement was the main message of the campaign in 2005 and we wanted to keep it in the game description as many gamers remember it this way.

Why was it done? Probably because previous games were using the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons license while this one was the actual D&D one. Previous games wouldn’t be called RTSs at that time either. Stronghold was about managing kingdom in real time and Blood & Magic was about real time tactics without any base building as such.

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

First released in 2004, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone returns in a polished re‑release: smoother startup and gameplay, proper widescreen scaling, borderless/windowed modes, optimised shadows, full XInput controller support with rumble and hot‑plugging, adjustable audio, and a new in‑game settings menu for modern PCs.

• Pick-up-and-play combat: hand-to-hand battles and melee brawls (the fighter), ranged and projectile power (the sorcerer), sexy stealth attacks (the rogue)
• Sprawling story by N.Y. Times - bestselling author R.A. Salvatore
• Voice performances by Patrick Stewart and Michael Clarke Duncan
• Beautiful, ominous Forgotten Realms environments, from the Gemspark Mines to the Jungles of Chult, to the Underdark and beyond
• Devastating DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® creatures including Bugbears, Slaadi, and Yuan-tis
• Expansive range of combo moves, skill upgrades, weapons, armor, and more