The Temple of Elemental Evil

As a D&D and CRPG veteran of 30 years: this is the worst opening to any game I have ever played. Build a super optimized party that covers all the bases and fills every role, just to get stomped into oblivion by some frogs in what should be one of your very first fights in the game. Wander around the opening town trying to complete minor quests to gain exp, only to encounter dumb interactions that dont count as quests and have no real impact or resolution. "Git gud" guys can push up their glasses at me and tell me "Clearly you didnt go get THAT ONE GUY from the inn at the beginning who makes this easy" **** off, no good RPG is going to REQUIRE you to pick up a specific NPC in your party just to have a chance at winning some early fights. That is bad game design. I made a fully custom party so that I could PLAY a fully custom party. I love Arcanum and baldurs gate 1 and 2 and all sorts of other games that could be considered "challenging" or "difficult" to get into, but the difference is that those games were actually designed well. ToEE is just bad. Save your money

bought this when my 22 yo daughter was about 6 months old. i had to buy a new computer to play it. joined circle of 8, i'm so proud of u guys making this system for Steam. Top of the morning to ya all

No HUD or text scaling makes this a non-starter. To my knowledge, not even mods will fixit. You have to basically run the game in a low resolution and then blow it up to your monitor's resolution e.g. with one of those full screen magnifier apps.

Absolute TRPG classic, with the best implementation of the 3.5 ruleset ever. Also a buggy mess with solid community support to fix and enhance the experience. Don't expect much in social skill checks, the game is very combat-focused. If you are getting filtered by the frogs, you literally need to git gud and stop crying in the review section. I would still recommend to get the GOG version first, but it's nice having access to TOEE here, especially for the easy SteamOS handheld access that comes with having a Steam native game on the Steam Deck and similar consoles. Troika was the ♥♥♥♥, I miss them.

tried to play, wouldn't and crashed. Sigh. Glad i bought on sale.

great old school turn based play! still the occasional bug specifically with some of the classes but a whole lotta fun!

Game works perfectly for me. Hard to believe because I remember having to put in so much work to even get it to barely run 15 years ago. New players....it is an unfinished game from 23 years ago. Don't expect some crazy story with twists and turns and memorable characters. Its essentially a 3.5 dungeon crawler with VERY challenging fights. Build up your characters into demi-gods and have fun!

One of the best campaigns of my DnD Youth. Such a great nostalgic feel playing in this format.