Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
Worth it · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 30.1h
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The frozen classic returns. Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition preserves the spirit of the original adventure while refining it for modern players, letting you build a party of Dungeons & Dragons heroes and brave the harsh, haunting beauty of the Spine of the World.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was July 2021. It has been discounted 78 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 81).
80 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 30.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 456 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 187 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 30.1 hours. Doing everything runs 68, 2.3 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
31% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 30.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
57 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Straight AD&D done in the Infinity Engine. If D&D games are your bag, then this is a brilliant title.
A hack and slash version of classic Baldur's Gate with advanced D&D 2E rules. What the story line lacks the gameplay and strategy needed for combat more than makes up for! I really like this game.
This is a classic CRPG in AD&D 2nd edition. RTwP is my favourate system and I'm familiar with AD&D 2nd edition so my journey is quite pleasant. For new players who never played BG1 or BG2 before, there's a bit of learning curve in the game related to concepts like THAC0, saving throw categories and fractional APR. On lower difficulties, you can breeze through without caring about these. On Heart of Fury difficulty...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/321800/icewind-dale-enhanced-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 21, price as of Sep 24.
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