The classic Gold Box D&D RPGs are coming to Steam next week

With better DOSBox support and companion apps

If that is you, then good news: they’re coming to Steam on March 29th, with some spit and polish.

The Gold Box games are enormously influential, being based on classic D&D settings like Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Dark Sun and helping to establish the early template for CRPGs. They are honestly hard to return to now, but these releases will be enhanced by companion apps, a unified launcher, improved DOSBox support, and a tool for transfering parties of characters between games.

The games will be released via eight collections, as follows:

It sounds as if there are two companion apps, one for the Eye Of TheBeholderseries and one for all the others. They manage dungeon mapping for you, among other things.

All of the enhancements to these games are being handled by publisher SNEG, a company created by former developers at GOG. All of the above games are already available via GOG, in fact, and it’s not clear how the new versions will differ from previous releases. SNEG have previously broughta bunch of otherclassic games to Steam, too.

The Gold Box games will arrive on Steam on March 29th.