Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard and Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone coming to Steam in mid-August
Published by SNEG.
SNEG will re-release real-time strategy game Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard and action RPG Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone for PC via Steam in mid-August, the company announced.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard originally launched in 2005, while Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone launched a year earlier in 2004. Both re-releases feature smoother gameplay, modern resolution support, and other improvements.
Here is an overview of each game, via SNEG:
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
About
Originally released in 2005, Dungeons & Dragons: 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.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is a real-time strategy experience based in the mystical world of Eberron, the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons realm. Within this wholly imaginative setting lives an inventive gameplay fusion: dramatic real-time strategy play is affected by the risks and rewards of a thrilling RPG-styled underworld. As players direct troops over the land, they also plunge smaller, hero-led parties below ground to an RPG-modeled world of beasts, battles, and bounty. Experience and items gained in this underworld result in great powers and abilities above ground. Using magic, weaponry, and skilled maneuvers, players command armies from varying races to control, protect, or destroy the powerful Heart of Siberys. Obtaining this omnipotent artifact will unleash its full forces, good or evil, upon the entire world.
Key Features
- The first Dungeons & Dragons real-time strategy experience.
- Dungeons & Dragons game from the Eberron campaign setting.
- Game design with two levels of interconnected action: real-time strategy 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 real-time strategy 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
About
First released in 2004, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone returns in a polished re‑release: smoother startup and gameplay, proper widescreen scaling, borderless / windowed modes, optimized shadows, full XInput controller support with rumble and hot‑plugging, adjustable audio, and a new in‑game settings menu for modern PCs.
The Greatest Battles Are Never Fought Alone!
Shamed from their homeland, in pursuit of their own, united by destiny, a Fighter, a Sorcerer, and a Rogue. In a land of mystery and enchantment, they must find the Demon Stone and recapture the warring leaders before the Realms are doomed forever.
Key Features
- 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.