DRAGON’ S TAIL

Selected works from PC’s long history with Faerûn

POOLOF RADIANCE 1988

First of the legendary Gold Box games. A little too basic to enjoy today.

EYEOFTHE BEHOLDER 1990

Hope you like thick stone walls. Classic dungeon crawler courtesy of C&C’s Westwood.

NEVERWINTER NIGHTS 1991

You’ll find no MMOs older than this one. None with graphics, anyway.

BALDUR’S GATE 1998

Enter Bioware. Baldur’sGate’s real-time, RTS-style combat changed RPGs forever.

ICE WIND DALE 2000

A tactical combat game built on Baldur’sGate’s engine, with a wonderful, wintry atmosphere.

BALDUR’S GATE II: SHADOWS OF AMN 2000

Arguably still Bioware’s best game. Certainly its darkest world, with companions who kill each other.

ICE WIND DALE II 2002

Featured the Infinity Engine at its most technologically advanced. Sadly, the source code is lost.

NEVERWINTER NIGHTS 2002

Unrelated to the MMO, this so-so Bioware campaign sat atop a powerful adventure-building toolkit.

NEVERWINTER NIGHTS: HORDESOFTHE UNDERDARK 2003

Much too good for an expansion. From Waterdeep to hell and back again.

DEMON STONE 2004

Hack and slash written by RA Salvatore and co-starring his cast from the Drizzt novels.

NEVERWINTER NIGHTS2 2006

Obsidian never got to make its Baldur’s

GateIII, but released a serviceable NWN sequel.

SWORD COAST LEGENDS 2015

The director of DragonAge:

Origins. The promise of playing a live DM. Yet: Mediocrity.

BALDUR’S

GATE: SIEGE OF DRAGONSPEAR 2016

The enhanced editions culminated in this brand-new ‘interquel’, set between the two original games.

IDLE CHAMPIONSOF THEFORGOTTEN REALMS 2017

One of those self-playing clicker games. Good, as far as those things go.

DARKALLIANCE 2021

Delivers Icewind Dale in 3D, and invites Drizzt’s crew to kill some notably nasty monsters. Check out our review on p54!