Pool of Radiance
Located on the northern shore of the Moonsea, the fabled city of Phlan has been overrun by monsters led by a mysterious leader. Your quest: uncover the identity of this evil force and rid Phlan of its scourge, restoring the city to its former glory. Along the way, you hope to find the legendary Pool of Radiance, said to glow with its own mystical power. Does it really give tremendous strength to the warrior who bathes in its magic waters? Or is that just an elfin myth? Before you meet the challenges ahead, you must create your characters and choose their races and battle skills. Then, set off on your glorious quest to drive out the monsters and let civilization reign once more!
Curse of the Azure Bonds
After you saved the entire city of Phlan and located the Pool of Radiance, a simple trip to Tilverton should have been as easy as a noon-day stroll. But it wasn’t…
Ambushed, captured and knocked unconscious, you awake with no idea who attacked you or how you arrived in Tilverton. You only know that five azure-blue symbols are imprinted under the skin of your right arm. The mystical power of the azure symbols ensnares your will like metal bonds! And when the bonds glow, you must do as they command, No magic can dispel them, no prayers can remove them. Your only hope: search the world for members of the alliance who created the bonds and regain control of your own destiny. Only then can you be free of the Curse of the Azure Bonds.
Hillsfar
Every visit to Hillsfar is a different, exhilarating experience. Explore the city, meet its colorful denizens on the streets or in pubs and discover a quest. Your quest will keep you constantly on the move. Fight in the arena against raging minotaurs, ill-tempered orcs or insulted swordsmen. Enter different buildings and utilize your maze-running and lock-picking skills. Archery and equestrian events may also be part of your overall quest. Think and move fast - these mini-games happen in real-time. For adventure, there is no place like Hillsfar.
Secret of the Silver Blades
The frigid valleys of the Dragonspine Mountains echo with the desperate plea of terrified miners: "Heroes of the Forgotten Realms, save us from evil!" Unwittingly digging in unhallowed ground, they have disturbed an ancient vault and released its terrible content. Scores of horrific creatures now infest the mine shaft -- and threaten to escape into the world above! You and your heroes must find the way to contain this scourge. All hope depends upon your ability to unravel the age-old mysteries surrounding this vile infestation.
Pools of Darkness
The Final Challenge. The Ultimate Enemy. First there was Pool of Radiance. Next came Curse of the Azure Bonds. Then followed Secret of the Silver Blades. Now, the epic has come full circle - Pools of Darkness takes you back to the Moonsea region for the final battle against the ultimate enemy. Prepare yourself for the biggest adventure yet as you are propelled into alternate dimensions on an enormous quest. And, it boasts a fully evolved version of the award-winning game system used throughout the series.
Transfer your characters from Secret of the Silver Blades with levels, money and items intact, or create new characters! Either way, you’re in for some high-level action! Battle monsters never before encountered. Cast powerful new spells. Achieve character levels above the 25th level!
Gateway to the Savage Frontier
Enter the foreboding lands of an area never before explored in a computer fantasy RPG: the Savage Frontier! Sail the Trackless Sea; conquer the heights of the Lost Peaks; brave the ruins of Ascore, guardian of the Great Desert; visit magical Silvermoon - and much, much more! Your quest: halt the murderous conspiracy of dark invaders from afar. Your only hope is to uncover the ancient mystical items of power to destroy the malignant invasion! Gateway to the Savage Frontier is based on an enhanced version of the award-winning game system used in Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds and Secret of the Silver Blades. Now you get the freedom to make the story happen the way you want! Plus, an all-new wilderness style adds new exploration and excitement to outdoor adventure! How can you resist? The Savage Frontier awaits!
Treasures of the Savage Frontier
The explosive sequel to Gateway to the Savage Frontier is here to put your will and discipline to the test. You mission is truly daunting: save the Savage Frontier from a cataclysmic war, free Llorkh from its evil captors, and regain a powerful magical item lost since ancient times! This big, bold adventure will leave you reeling! The award-winning game system used throughout SSI’s famous gold-box series continues to evolve - new features abound! Movement and combat are now subject to the unpredictable effects of weather. Players can now interact with NPCs - the can even have romances! Plus, in some situations, combat reinforcement can give you extra help just when you need it most. And with the Savage Frontier teetering on the brink of all-out war, you can be sure that this feature will be put to good use! Transfer your characters from Gateway to the Savage Frontier or create new 5th level ones. You’ll find much more to explore - and the freedom to explore it the way you want - as the Heroes of Ascore attempt the impossible yet again!
Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures
Have you ever wanted to break the chains and design your own AD&D adventure scenarios? Well, this is your chance to do it in the incredible Forgotten Realms universe. Build maps with the easy-to-use grid screen and link them with teleporters, doorways and stairwells. Choose your characters from the massive bank of 112 monsters and multiple non-player characters. Design the dungeons of your dreams and test them as you go with a point-and-click interface that makes errors gone forever. Test your mettle by playing a pre-created scenario, “The Heirs to Skull Crag” with four separate quests to solve. Should you choose, you can even modify this ready-to-go adventure. With all these tools at your fingertips, the possibilities are endless.
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Please note that Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures does not support the cloud saves feature.
Please note that Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures does not support the cloud saves feature.
Posted on: August 21, 2015
narpet
Verified ownerGames: 531 Reviews: 2
A great deal on amazing CRPG history!
I've been waiting for this collection to come out ever since GOG came online. I still have all my original gold box games in the box. It's the pride of my collection. These games are very old and hard for newer players to get into... but they are still amazing RPG's. To this day, in my opinion, Pool of Radiance is one of the best CRPG's ever made. Thanks GOG!
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Posted on: May 14, 2019
deepthaw
Verified ownerGames: 204 Reviews: 5
An oft-forgotten giant of CRPGs
Ultima and Wizardry are held up as the grandfathers of computer RPGs, and for good reason, but even those games owe their existence to Dungeons & Dragons, and Pool of Radiance is a shockingly good adaptation of D&D as it was played at the time. Modern players will find the graphics and interface to be clunky (at beast) and the D&D ruleset can often be unforgiving, but the level of tactical challenge and feeling of progression as you find more and better treasure while slowly leveling up your characters still works well with modern sensibilities. Word of advice - if you buy into this series with the expectation of carrying the same party throughout all the games (a very cool feature) it's not really worth it. The Gold Box games saw a lot of improvements and expansion, and characters built in Pool of Radiance lack access to options that characters created in later games would have - plus the games usually reset your party to naked & unequipped at the start, so there's not much to carry over.
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Posted on: January 6, 2022
krachtm
Verified ownerGames: 536 Reviews: 18
Old-school classics
If you can stand the poor user interface, hardcore gameplay, and brutally faithful implementation of old-school Dungeons and Dragons rules, I'd recommend this over a lot of modern pixel art games. Sure, nostalgia helps to get you through the rough spots of 1980s-era game design, but the Gold Box games are still a lot of fun today. These are dungeon crawlers designed for 8 bit home computers, so don't go in expecting flowery dialogue, multiple endings, or choices and consequences. You spend most of your time in turn-based tactical combat. However, the games are packed with monsters to fight, loot to find, and dungeons to explore.
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Posted on: August 23, 2015
furthest_flung
Games: 3 Reviews: 11
Skip the other collections, get this one
This is it, the Gold Box Games. The ones that were the legend that set the gold standard (no pun intended) for CRPGs for years to come. Its graphics are more than a little dated, but it still holds up, I still love playing these games more than anything short of the Baldur's Gate series again. I still play these and wonder why, oh, why, can't these games just be made more often? This isn't the pinnacle of all turn-based, grid-based combat, but it should, at the very least, be the base model upon which all other games in the genre should seek to build off of. The Savage Frontier series is less well-known, and (somehow manages to be even) more combat-focused upon the combat elements than the Gold Box games, sort of like a Icewind Dale to Baldur's Gate situation. Hillsfar is... an odd duck. It's one of those early Westwood games where they didn't quite seem to know what they wanted to do with the game. You do things like break into houses and rummage through the cabinets for valuables and leave before the timer runs out and people come back home, but you don't do real fighting. I had trouble even getting this one to work, so I can't say much but that it's all but forgotten for a reason.
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Posted on: November 8, 2015
rantinan
Verified ownerGames: 217 Reviews: 2
All the joy, none of the install time
Question: What took five and a half hours to un-zip on a PC XT? Answer: "Poolrad" and it was worth EVERY SECOND OF IT. Stretching (literally) from the earliest days of home computing gaming to the late, great 486 era, this bundle of joy provides you with enough CRPG fun to keep you going for hundreds of hours. Seriously, you are looking at 20 hours per main quest in most of the games, and another 20 in side quests. This is old school CRPG as good as it gets. There are a pile of fun glitches and exploits to discover, save files to hack, maps to get lost in and treasures to loot. And if you;re feeling spectacularly into it, you can take your characters all the way from poolrad to pooldark. THen once you get out of the gold box games, you can make your own. Now if i could just find my origional cosde wheels
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