20 years on, two classic DnD games are being revived on Steam

Whether it be a full, top-to-bottom remake or tastefully enhanced remasters, it's always great to see a classic PC game get a new lease of life decades on from its heyday. It's even better when it happens to two of them at once. In what will be a great bit of news for DnD fans, a pair of games from the 2000s are being re-released on Steam next month with light-touch remasters that'll make them run smoothly on modern day rigs. Prepare to welcome back Dungeons and Dragons Dragonshard, an RTS and RPG hybrid, and Forgotten Realms Demon Stone, a third-person action game.

While you can never really be short of great games based in the Dungeons and Dragons universe (just look at our best DnD games list if you don't believe me), what's the harm in bringing a couple of classics back for round two? This is the work of SNEG, a publisher that has made a name for itself reviving old PC games and bringing them to Steam. Both Dragonshard and Forgotten Realms Demon Stone have been modernized and upgraded under the hood, but their mid-2000s charm remains intact.

Dragonshard is an incredibly ambitious blend of RTS games and dungeon-crawling RPGs. Above ground, you command large armies of units in classic RTS gameplay, but you'll also stumble across entrances to underground levels where you'll peel off into smaller parties to slay monsters and find loot. There are three warring factions, each with different playstyles and campaigns to experience. This particular adventure takes place in DnD's Eberron campaign setting.

To accommodate its launch on Steam, SNEG says that this remastered version comes with "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."

For a rather different experience altogether, Forgotten Realms Demon Stone is a party-based action RPG which, as the name suggests, is based in the Forgotten Realms campaign. You follow a team of three heroes that you can seamlessly switch between while exploring and battling - there's Rannek, the master of melee combat; Illius, a ranged sorcerer; and Zhai, a stealthy assassin who can turn invisible. You'll also hear the voice acting talents of a certain Patrick Stewart, who plays the role of the wise mage Khelben Blackstaff.

Demon Stone's improvements for this re-release include "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."

SNEG says that the Steam versions of Dungeons and Dragons Dragonshard and Forgotten Realms Demon Stone will arrive in "mid-August 2025," there's not long to wait. The Steam pages for both games are also live right now - you can check out Dragonshard here, and Demon Stone here.

To find similar thrills from both fellow classics and more contemporary titles, check out some of the best fantasy games on PC. If you're thinking of upgrading your setup sometime soon, make sure you give our best gaming monitor guide a glance as well.

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