The Temple of Elemental Evil

I was hesitant to try this game due to people saying that it's too buggy. Having just finished both Baldur's 1 and 2, I prefer TTOE over those 2. This game has much more combat with lethal foes and the 3d characters look a lot better than the sprites found in Baldur's Gate. Yet the things I like the best is less fetch'em tasks and the combat that is much harder and requires you to think. Also can build your custom party of six and it's cool that your quest varies based on the alignment chosen. If you do decide to get this great game then get the co8 mod and careful when you saved.

Circle of Eight ( CO8 ) mod makes this a great experience. If you want to up the game even from that, then Temple+ mod will give you many options that make quality of life ( QOL ) better and experience deeper. As far as the game, its Temple of Elemental Evil ( TOEE ) on computer. (or Keep on the Borderlands if you download that too). What stands out, by a country mile, is the combat. This is the best adaptation of a rules set on any game I've seen. Talk about having options in combat. Out of spells, your quiver is empty, what can you do? Quite a lot actually. This is the cream of the cream when it comes to rules implementation and combat. A dungeon crawler at its peak in my opinion.

Circle of 8 mod, install, enjoy. As close to perfect as is possible because the lack of source code, though not perfect(still little bugs but nothing too bad).

Great game mostly about the battles, and reasonably faithful to early days of the D&D 3.0/3.5 rule-set, even to the point of keeping the combat turn based. Sure it's short on story, but then the Temple of Elemental Evil module didn't have huge amounts of story either and was more a huge dungeon romp. Given that Troika (R.I.P) did it all in about an 18 month development cycle, they did a great job with the time they had. For me a gem in the rough, is an apt term. Keep in mind it has it's fair share of bugs, so if that is a deal breaker for you you may want to avoid it, but with a bit of patience you may find you see the gem too.

I thought I knew all the D&D CRPG's, but I'd never heard of this game. I should have. Someone at Troika LOVED D&D, there's a lot of effort poured into this. There's a lot of customisation and the detail of the D&D system is (I assume) faithfully recreated to the last painful dice roll. You can tell it was rushed though - for example, it looks like the spell list goes all the way up to level 9, but you won't find any spells scrolls above level 6. TOEE apparently has a vibrant modding community with a site called the "Circle of 8", I didn't use their mod but I'm told that it removes a lot of the bugs and adds a lot of content. I spent WAY too long playing this game and yet it felt oddly light on content, it's a game crying for DLC in the days before they had DLC. Overall - 4 stars.