Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8h 20h to 100%
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 287 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.48 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The Forgotten Realm Archives - Collection Two brings a healthy mix of “Gold Box” and nostalgia goodness to your PC, along with a combination of adventure builders, turn-based and real-time role-playing gameplay.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 42 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Legend of Mana ($29.99, scores 48).
More about Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
1 of the 265 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 8 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 35 when we last checked, on Sep 28, 08:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you're an old fart like me who first played this on a simple Apple IIc, you're going to have a fun trip down memory lane. The game is as unforgiving as modern games but have none of the politics, none of the in-your-face crap, and, yeah, none of the fancy graphics. You'll roll a lot of 1's (you microwaved the d6 upside down, apparently), you'll watch monsters with a 20 THAC0 (if you don't know what that is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Plays just like the original, with the added bonus of the extra built in map and helper functions.
i got this a few years ago to try playing and i spent over an hour rolling and rerolling the dice to make my characters, i loaded into the game, went to the tavern, started a fight with the thugs, died, and all of my characters got deleted. i have not opened the game since. i was even more disappointed when i couldn't figure out how to turn on the music for the game because that was always my favorite part about the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1882280/forgotten-realms-the-archives-collection-twoReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.