Underplayed Gems

Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition (2014)

Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition cover
Developer
Beamdog
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Genres
Adventure, RPG
Rating
4.5 of 5, 3,633 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 28 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

You lead a customized party through a perilous, frozen wilderness with deep tactical combat and old-school dungeon exploration.

party-based rpgold schooldungeon crawlingstrategic combattacticalretroatmosphericchallengingreal-time with pause

What players say

Players describe Icewind Dale as a combat-focused dungeon crawler using AD&D 2E rules, where the story and companions take a backseat to tactical battles and party building. Some praise the deep combat and atmosphere, while others find the constant enemy packs tiring and the pathfinding broken, and newcomers often bounce off its unforgiving difficulty.

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