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PayPalGame 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
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
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You can also find comments for this article on social media: The first DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® Real-Time Strategy ExperienceI did play Dragonshard, and the game was okay, but why lie here ?
Because Blood & Magic was a D&D RTS release in 96, so that make Dragonshard not the first RTS, and it's kind of weird that the first line of the advertisment is a lie.
Liam Dawe 10 hours ago
pageround 8 hours ago
redneckdrow 3 hours ago
The game still looks great to me, 20 years later. God, I feel old.
It's definitely a 9.5/10 from me.
It also has a pretty good story written by R.A. Salvatore, set sometime after The Hunter's Blades Trilogy of books. Drizzt Do'Urden does appear during one level, but you needn't have read any of the Drizzt books to get what's going on.
Patrick Stewart voicing Khelben Arunsun, my favorite actor and second favorite FR character (after Elminster) respectively, is definitely a plus.
Yes I'm a major Forgotten Realms nerd. My only problem is that so many of the video games reuse the D&D standard Silver Sword of Gith
as a MacGuffin, when there are plenty of Realms-specific ones to choose from. I get really tired of that. It's like no one cares to do the research, or at least consult Ed Greenwood.
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