Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Classics Come To Steam This March

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Many of the classic Gold Box Dungeons & Dragons games are coming to Steam later in March, with a dedicated launcher and the ability to transfer characters between compatible games. D&D inspired early video games, like Final Fantasy, so it was only natural that developers would try to recreate D&D as a video game.

For many people, the original Baldur's Gate kicked off the era of classic D&D games that really captured the essence of the tabletop game. Baldur's Gate was not the first D&D, as there were many titles released throughout the late '80s and early '90s. These games are referred to as the Gold Box series and they were produced by multiple developers, using the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. The games took different approaches when it came to adapting the AD&D rules, including some that used the first-person perspective, as seen in the Wizardry series. These include games that used different settings, including some D&D campaign settings that aren't in 5e yet, including Al-Qadim, Dark Sun, and Dragonlance.

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The Gold Box games were made playable on modern systems through DOSBox and they're now coming to Steam on March 29, 2022, via publisher SNEG. The games include Forgotten Realms: The Archives Collection One (Eye of the Beholder I, II, andIII), Forgotten Realms: The Archives — Collection Two (Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Hillsfar, Pools of Darkness, Pool of Radiance, Secret of the Silver Blades, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and Unlimited Adventures), Forgotten Realms: The Archives — Collection Three (Dungeon Hack, Menzoberranzan), Krynn series (Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, The Dark Queen of Krynn), Dark Sun series