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In 2022, the famed Gold Field D&D video games lastly got here to Steam. They’d been on GOG for years, however the newer Steam releases featured updates together with preinstalled variations of the Gold Field Companion and All-Seeing Eye apps that made the aged video games extra manageable on fashionable {hardware}. Now SNEG, the corporate behind these updates, is doing the identical for eight extra D&D classics from way back, together with Spelljammer, DragonStrike, and the Silver Field video games.

The Silver Field video games aren’t as well- often called these of the Gold Field lineage, however as Jody defined in his wonderful evaluation of the Steam updates, it is all a bit of bit arbitrary anyway.

“Not each game made with the Gold Field engine was launched in a gold field, and which video games must be counted relies upon who you ask,” he wrote. “The bundle of Gold Field Classics SNEG launched on Steam would not embody the 1991 on-line game for apparent causes, or Spelljammer or the 2 Buck Rogers video games made within the engine however not revealed with gold packing containers, but does embody the Darkish Solar, Ravenloft, and Eye of the Beholder sequence, in addition to Menzoberranzan and Dungeon Hack, none of which got gold packing containers or made with the engine.”

The Silver Field video games are equally muddled: Wikipedia lists them as Heroes of the Lance, Dragons of Flame, and Shadow Sorcerer, whereas SNEG’s Silver Field bundle provides Warfare of the Lance. Wiki lists that one as a “standalone game,” possibly as a result of it is not an RPG however a top-down technique game. However Shadow Sorcerer is strategy-focused too, whereas Heroes of the Lance and Dragons of Flame are sidescrolling motion video games. 

Anyway, no matter you name them, these video games collectively symbolize an essential slice of gaming historical past from the late ’80s and early ’90s. Here is the complete lineup:

  • Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace
  • Fantasy Empires
  • DragonStrike
  • Deathkeep
  • Heroes of the Lance
  • Dragons of Flame
  • Warfare of the Lance
  • Shadow Sorcerer

DragonStrike is a “dragon fight simulator,” whereas Spelljammer is a bit like Sid Meier’s Pirates, besides you are crusing by means of Wildspace as an alternative of the excessive seas. Fantasy Empires is a technique game, and Deathkeep is a first-person dungeon crawler. It is also the latest of the bunch, though “new” is relative: It was launched in 1995.

“I’m an outdated D&D fan and It was all the time my dream to carry again all its online game classics,” SNEG director Oleg Klapovskiy mentioned. “Again in 2015, I began making that dream come true by bringing the Gold Field titles again to players, and now we’re persevering with with this dream by bringing again one other portion of classics to each GOG and Steam.”

Klapovskiy is critical about his dedication to old-time videogames: Previous to co-founding SNEG, he spent a number of years at GOG.

Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace, Fantasy Empires, DragonStrike, Deathkeep, and the Silver Field Traditional Bundle are set to launch close to the top of March—a particular date hasn’t been set but—and can be accessible on Steam and GOG.

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