Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three
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Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One
Developer Westwood Associates, Strategic Simulations
The Forgotten Realms Archive - Collection One allows you to journey through the set of adventures: the Eye of the Beholder trilogy, a collection of first-person, real-time role-playing games. From the Steam store page
294 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
160 positive · 19 negative
95% range 84–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 160 | 19 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 10 | 3 | 84 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
201 of 223 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
89% recommend · 159 yes, 19 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 178 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (281 of 309 positive).
Many reviewers note the games are best enjoyed with nostalgia for the originals. [1][2][3] Some players find the old-school mechanics and lack of modern features off-putting. [1][2][3]
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The biggest thing with these games is going to be, did you play them back in the day to get some form of nostalgia. If so, then you will prob get a kick out of these games. If not? It honestly feels just super clunky and slow. I gave it an honest attempt, but since I never played it before there was no nostalgia keeping me into it.
- [4]
I have yet to beat a single one of these games, but I can already tell this is a quality release. Three classic games, plus the original manuals and cluebooks, plus an automapper with help/guide functionality, all in one neat package wrapped up with a little bow. For just 8,19€. It's stupid cheap and not worth waiting for a sale. That being said, the games and documentation are over 30 years old. Not only are you …
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SHORT REVIEW Eye of the Beholder I, II & III are a set of 3D first-person perspective Dungeon Crawlers from the early 90's based on the 2nd Edition AD&D rules set. Although I have recommended these games that recommendation does come with a fairly heavy set of caveats which I will detail later. PLOT: The three games each have their own plots which follow on from one another but as with most dungeon crawlers the plot …
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A trip back to the time when I played the first and second EOB on my old amiga, and what a trip! From the moment I entered the sewers in EOB I, the sounds and graphic got as hooked, as the first time I played it. Same goes for EOB II, when I entered the forest, and I recommend everybody to try these two brilliant games: They are entertaining and some of the puzzles will make yeah! when you find their solutions. EOB …
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Finally the goldbox games are on steam, looking forward to playing all of them The only one I played back in the day was the first Eye of the beholder, and ever since I wanted to play through all 3 with 1 party, finally I got around to do so. The first 2 games are ace, the third one dips in quality but it's still good, but I recommend to play the third one with the hintbook. All in all, this is gaming history and …
Summarised from 34 of the 277 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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89% of the 178 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One. The complaint that keeps coming up: feels clunky and slow for newcomers without nostalgia. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
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60 of 294 · most liked firstSpotlight on the cartographer who worked on Tolkien's Middle Earth and D&D's Forgotten Realms As that person constantly flipping back to the maps when traveling along in a story or game, thank you for your passion Karen
neutral · AI labelView post →The artwork of #DungeonHack, a game in the #ForgottenRealms series, by Akihiro Kimura used on the cover of the #NEC #PC98 release in Japan. Usual upscale/clean/retouch process applied.
neutral · AI labelView post →There seems to be three basic types of CRPG out there, you have the solo hero that does it all (Fallout, UnderRail), the ragtag group of four to six heroes who work together, have internal conflicts, and get a large story out of (Baldur's Gate, Divinity: Original Sin II), and there are the blobbers, which consists of a group of (usually) four party members in a box formation moving through a grid-based world and almost (not always as in Legend of Grimrock II) entirely set within a dungeon.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →reading old D&D magazines and seeing an ad for their upcoming new setting supplement "The Forgotten Realms" feels like finding audio logs in a video game going "can't wait to start my new job at the Umbrella Corporation! i have a lot of ideas how to improve the world of biotech"
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished the game. No Steam Achievements, no micro transactions, no in game purchases. Best game Ever!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hi!! I’m Aurora, an old ass fanfic writer for many a video game, mostly Final Fantasy and BioWare titles. Huge Forgotten Realms fan also. Here is my AO3 page: archiveofourown.org/users/Kylenn... And I have a lil tip jar here: ko-fi.com/auroratheeel...
neutral · AI labelView post →A two page ad from early 2000 for Icewind Dale, an RPG for PCs by Black Isle Studios Shifting from the cozy intrigues of Baldur's Gate, this standalone adventure pit players against a new, shadowy evil encroaching in the distant, and chilly, far north of TSR's Forgotten Realms campaign world!
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's the Snapping Tortle Barbarian that was painted on last night's stream. It'll be used as an enforcer for one of Calimports Pashas in my Forgotten Realms 5th Ed game. #minipainting #PaintingMiniatures #miniatures
neutral · AI labelView post →A 1988 ad for AD&D: Pool of Radiance, an RPG by SSI for PC platforms The first title in SSI's gold box series takes place in TSR's Forgotten Realms setting for AD&D and features art by Clyde Caldwell used on the cover of 1986's "Knight of Illusion" Endless Quest book and a TTRPG adaptation.
neutral · AI labelView post →From Margaret Weis: Jean Rabe, who wrote RPG books for Spelljammer and Dragonlance and novels for Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, has passed. We're losing our TTRPG elders as well as our video game elders.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was asked to run a kids (& parents') Dungeons & Dragons game, so I’m taking a little work break to dust off 3.5 this morning. The ruleset vibes with me more than 5E. Thinking of setting the one-shot (and possibly more) in the Forgotten Realms. Feels like the right setting to hook new players.
neutral · AI labelView post →The biggest thing with these games is going to be, did you play them back in the day to get some form of nostalgia. If so, then you will prob get a kick out of these games. If not? It honestly feels just super clunky and slow. I gave it an honest attempt, but since I never played it before there was no nostalgia keeping me into it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL; DR the Eye of the Beholder Trilogy is pretty great, even for me who first played them in 2022. It is short enough not to make any game drawn out (my playthrough took about 10 hours per game) while also having a lot of content including a whole short story in the manual of the third game. Fans of newer games such as Legend of Grimrock should find it easy to adjust to this trilogy. The Trilogy can be played entirely with the keyboard or mouse, or a mix of both. These games play through…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Classic PC RPGs This caught my interest: GOG has the original versions of 3 classic RPGs. Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone The Temple of Elemental Evil Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (a GOG Preservation game) Now STEAM is adding these games in Aug/Sept. -> 2
neutral · AI labelView post →One couldn't help but notice that while the trailer was mostly dark horror, they worked in some 'sexy' horror and one wonders if this was an effort to communicate to the BG3 fans that this game will be BG3 levels of horny. 🤷♂️ But Rivellon is just not as interesting a setting as Forgotten Realms.
neutral · AI labelView post →This looks fun! My tav and 3 characters who describe him Pretty boys with parental issues ahoy! Drizzt Do'urden (Forgotten Realms) Zagreus (Hades Game) Sephiroth (Final Fantasy 7)
neutral · AI labelView post →Pardon me it's laura Lakey (no second L) and you can see her influence on the game. She and her husband worked on Forgotten Realms.
neutral · AI labelView post →I hate that I'm ending up giving this a negative review, I mean I got it for almost free on sale. But there's just too much holding it back to enjoy. So I'm not old enough to have ever played the originals or know anyone that did, but I've done plenty of DnD. Unfortunately, I've only really dealt with 3, 3.5, and 5. So much of that knowledge is utterly useless here. But that's ultimately not even the real issue. I don't mind having to learn an even older version of DnD, but I'm not doing that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The last three contestants in the Ladies of Dungeons and Dragons poll are Silvara an elf with a silver secret (Dragonlance), Alias the tattooed heroine (The Forgotten Realms), and Lucia the Elf (Mystara) from the DnD arcade game I played obsessively for a month #tgirl #dndai #Absynth #futa
neutral · AI labelView post →[GOG via Prime] *Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One*, classic D&D RPG from 1991. > Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One contains the Eye of the Beholder trilogy, a set of first-person, real-time role-playing games. With an original story set in the Forgotten Realms universe, Eye of the Beholder is based on the Advanced Dungeon & Dragons 2nd Edition's game rules. Bringing the immersion, wonder, and epicness of a D&D campaign, Eye of the Beholder is a genre-defining and…
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a good article, but the way I see it, fantasy settings can be divided into two types: gold standard (most D&D and especially Forgotten Realms, Oblivion) and silver standard (Warhammer, Game of Thrones, First Law). The difference is that in the gold standard settings, no one shits.
neutral · AI labelView post →December free Prime Gaming/Amazon Luna lineup: www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/a... Today: -LEGO 2K Drive (EGS) -Forgotten Realms: The Archives Col 1 (GOG) -GYLT 12/11: -Forgotten Realms: The Archives Col 2 (GOG) -Christmas Adventure: Candy Storm 12/18: -Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (GOG) ...
neutral · AI labelView post →Am I still at the pool? Yep. 😎 My kiddo and their friend are having a blast, so I'm taking advantage of the downtime and shifting focus to my Forgotten Realms (D&D 3.5) game in three days! Time to GM prep. ⚔️📚 #GMLife
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW TODAY! A deep dive into the ancient global disasters at the heart of all three original D&D campaign settings: Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance. What do these cataclysms tell us about the game? Why do we find the end of the world so comforting?
neutral · AI labelView post →I bought this for nostalgic reasons, but I shouldn't have. If you however, like old, first person maze games from the early 90's then this is for you. Currently I've only played through EOB1, which wasn't too bad, and a bit over half of EOB2, which had better events, though I don't see me continue on EOB2 or 3. What's wrong with these? Well, without the All Seeing Eye, the game is hard, giving you no information whatsoever about equipment and items you find. There is no map in game, though that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have yet to beat a single one of these games, but I can already tell this is a quality release. Three classic games, plus the original manuals and cluebooks, plus an automapper with help/guide functionality, all in one neat package wrapped up with a little bow. For just 8,19€. It's stupid cheap and not worth waiting for a sale. That being said, the games and documentation are over 30 years old. Not only are you expected to read the manual (that's why it's there), you also need to know a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s GAME DAY! 🎲 Forgotten Realms 3.5 Session 5 is here, and six of seven players are ready to raid Galath’s Roost! Waiting for our level 4 heroes: Zhents, ettins, traps, trouble… and a little something special I’ve been saving for them. Will they survive? MUHHHHAAAA! 😈
neutral · AI labelView post →2 characters perished last night in our Cairn game set in the Forgotten Realms. It is our B-game for when folks can't all be there for the other game that is on the edge of being done. Worried that this game set in the Moonshae Isles might be darker than our run of Impossible Landscapes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last weekend, my daughter and son-in-law came over for my son's birthday. Over dinner, we discussed Baldur's Gate 3, and I mentioned that I've been playing D&D for over 35 years and Forgotten Realms is one of my favorite settings. Now they want me to DM a game for them 😊
neutral · AI labelView post →These are just dos ports bundled with a freely available auto-mapper, all wrapped up in a nice launcher. The best part is seeing all the Jeff Easley art before playing. I suppose you could just load up a Pinterest board and stare at it for a few minutes before playing these games but this way is faster. Think of this collection as convenient way to have all the SSI DnD stuff under one roof with cloud saves.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Epic] Turnup Boy (PC), Little Nightmares (Mobile), Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms (Mobile). Claim All Claim All…
neutral · AI labelView post →I wouldn't even say that BG3 is a soul transplant. It was a good game set in the Forgotten Realms. But there was nothing about it that made it a sequel to Baldur's Gate 1 or 2. It didn't relate to the story, didn't cover the same themes, didn't use the same version of D&D, didn't play the same.
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II was out 22 years ago (2004)! First on the PS2 & Xbox, then everything else after (even Linux!); another fun tour of the Forgotten Realms where you throw every colour of magical attacks at huge hordes of enemies. 🌈 Review: www.rpgfan.com/game/baldurs...
neutral · AI labelView post →I know more about Glorantha from building three characters than I have ever learned about the Forgotten Realms in a literal decade of playing 5E. I know not every game is going to so firmly seat you in its world, but damn, a genealogical life path generator is brilliant in terms of grounding.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Hyperfixations by year. 1980 to 1984: no memory 1985: King Kong 1986: Zorro 1987: Dinosaurs 1988: Ancient Egypt 1989: Ancient Greece 1990: Dragonlance 1991: Space 1992: Forgotten Realms and Robotech 1993: Rifts RPG and Dinosaurs again 1994: Ender' Game 1995: The Wheel of Time 1996: Ranma 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →every morning in our D&D game the DM lets me roll to see if I have invented the fax machine. so far I haven't but when I do the Forgotten Realms will be all mine
neutral · AI labelView post →Classic dungeon crawlers, best of their class. Easily import saves from one game to another so you can bring that sweet +6 halberd with you along the adventure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love these games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the mail: - Persuasion, an Austen-inspired game, purchased for class. (Needs card sleeves) - the latest from @plusoneexp.bsky.social Zine Club - @storybrewersroleplaying.com Castles in the Air - Forgotten Realms books from WOTC (only thing I didn’t buy, sent to me as a “content creator”)
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was out 24 years ago (2001)! 🐲 One of those early greats that's on nearly ALL the consoles (from handhelds to consoles to Linux); but it's the 2 player co-op that made this tour of the Forgotten Realms unforgettable. Reviews: www.rpgfan.com/game/baldurs...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hubby and I are jumping into the Forgotten Realms together today with the classic game Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance! Come cheer us on! youtu.be/pX9xR4zXSog
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve got a rare night to myself, and instead of writing, I’m deep in game prep. 🎲Two new campaigns: Traveller and 3.5 Forgotten Realms are next week, so tonight I'm making test Traveller characters for session 0 and the kiddo’s Sun Elf Warblade for session 1, as she’s crashing the D&D game. 😄⚔️
neutral · AI labelView post →What are the top 25 tabletop roleplaying game settings (not licensed) that you'll ALWAYS LOVE? #gamesky #TTTPG #DungeonsandDragons Day 1: The Forgotten Realms (D&D)
neutral · AI labelView post →New skins! Check out the Frost Giant Theme Packs for Beadle AND Grimm in the Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms game! Available now! #idlechampionsoftheforgottenrealms #dnd #idlechampions #frostgiant #beadle #grimm
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally, thanks to the allseeing eye i managed to finish EotB 1 und already begun Part two and I'm loving it! A great RPG, just like the old times on my Amiga 500 😍
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have 1500+ in BG3. I played it like it was my job for a while. I've done tabletop for decades. I started reading Forgotten Realms books when I was twelve. The fact the book contradicts your fan interpretation is just... Yeah? No shit? The game actively contradicts ITSELF.
positive · AI labelView post →Pool of Radiance, the 1988 original, in a browser tab or on a phone, from your own GOG or Steam copy. I've been working on a way to play the Gold Box games without fighting DOS settings, and Pool of Radiance is ready to try: **amberfolio.org**. You install *Forgotten Realms: The Archives – Collection Two* from GOG or Steam as usual, then hand the site the game's folder once (on a phone, the files or a zip of the folder). It plays in the browser tab from then on, on a computer, an iPhone, an…
neutral · AI labelView post →🦈 Piracy is a dangerous game, especially if you don't really know who you're getting mixed up with. -- A Forgotten Realms short story because why not... docs.google.com/document/d/1...
neutral · AI labelView post →Do we really need more Baldur's Gates? The story was finished in Throne of Bhaal, then Larian dug the corpse up and put a mindflayer brainworm in it, and now it's finished again. Just tap into the oodles of other Dungeons and Dragons settings for the next game. Why not adapt the Dragonlance novels into games? Or call it something else if you stay in Forgotten Realms, let this franchise rest. Ah, I'm sorry I'm just shouting at clouds. Who wants a new IP when you can cash in on a successful…
negative · AI labelView post →I'm having more fun with these old games, than most newer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reptus Archers from Reaper Miniatures Warlord line of figures. Painted for my personal collection. I'm going to use them as servants for a blue dragon in my Forgotten Realms 5th Ed game. Reaper Miniatures #reaperminis #PaintingMiniatures #miniatures #minipainting
neutral · AI labelView post →SHORT REVIEW Eye of the Beholder I, II & III are a set of 3D first-person perspective Dungeon Crawlers from the early 90's based on the 2nd Edition AD&D rules set. Although I have recommended these games that recommendation does come with a fairly heavy set of caveats which I will detail later. PLOT: The three games each have their own plots which follow on from one another but as with most dungeon crawlers the plot doesn't feature that heavily in the games themselves. COMBAT: The combat…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I must not run Star Wars: Saga Edition. I must not run Star Wars: Saga Edition. Except Zero Company is really making me want to swap out my Forgotten Realms 3.5 game. 😅 So I’ll just… read through my collection of Saga books while enjoying a summer lager. 🍺📚 What could possibly happen.👀 #TTRPGs
neutral · AI labelView post →This morning’s #BooksAndBrews is less reading, more flipping through #DungeonsAndDragons 3.5 as I plan a five-session game. ☕📚 Insomnia brain is not built for deep reading, so vibing instead. A nap is definitely in my near future. 😄 Forgotten Realms? Eberron? Planescape? …decisions, decisions. 🎲
neutral · AI labelView post →[GOG via Prime] *Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two*, classic D&D RPGs from 1988. > Composed of RPG classics that premiered the Forgotten Realms to video gamers, Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two contains the following titles: > Pool of Radiance > > Located on the northern shore of the Moonsea, the fabled city of Phlan has been overrun by monsters led by a mysterious leader. > Curse of the Azure Bonds > > You awake with no idea how you arrived in Tilverton. You only…
neutral · AI labelView post →Reptus Archers from Reaper Miniatures Warlord line of figures. Painted for my personal collection. I'm going to use them as servants for a blue dragon in my Forgotten Realms 5th Ed game. Reaper Miniatures #reaperminis #PaintingMiniatures #miniatures #minipainting
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve decided! My 3.5 Forgotten Realms campaign has two more longer sessions left, and then I’m wrapping it up. So, new year, new game for my local group in 2027. I’ll leave the campaign on a The Road Goes Ever, Ever On note. What the 2027 campaign will be… TBD. 🎲
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like a clean DOSBOX implementation you could do yourself, but legal and clean and saves you a lot of trouble. My only complaint is that it is not compatible with Mac. Not because I need to play on Mac.. but because the original was not available on Mac, but was once announced as coming soon, and 11 year old me went into the computer store at the mall once a week for what seemed like an eternity asking if it had come in and the guy got so annoyed with me every time... How is it still not on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would normally give it a thumbs down, though Eye of the beholder 2 was one of my favorite games at the time (1992-1993) along with Ishar which is better. The reason is that it was sadistically confusing, like entering a labyrinth Daidalos designed. You needed to pay attention to the compass, to the repetitive corridors and turns, leave things in interjections like breadcrumb trails to understand where you move in circles, search the walls on the side for hidden buttons, and even draw on hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hillsfar is a spin off (?) game in the Forgotten Realms RPG games of the 80s/90s and is the next game for me to beat! I transferred Alma from Pool of Radiance and now shes on a mini adventure and prepping for the mainline game: Curse of the Azure Bonds! Lets see how this goes!
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