Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor gets first digital release on Steam, GOG

SNEG said Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor will land on Steam and GOG in Q4 2026, giving the 2001 dungeon crawler its first digital release. The update is being pitched around a simple promise: make the game run smoothly on modern systems.

Steam’s listing frames it as a turn-based party RPG set in the Forgotten Realms, where a group of adventurers descends into the haunted elven ruins of Myth Drannor to stop a dracolich. That description sets the tone clearly. This is old-school Dungeons & Dragons combat, with party management, tactical fights, and the kind of gridlocked dungeon-crawl structure that will feel familiar to anyone who spent time with late-era isometric PC RPGs.

The game originally came from Stormfront Studios and Ubisoft, with a North American Windows release on September 25, 2001, followed by Europe on November 30, 2001. It arrived after a ten-year gap in the Pool of Radiance series and became the fifth and latest entry in the line. It was also the first Pool of Radiance game built on third-edition D&D rules, a notable break from the earlier Gold Box and AD&D structure that had defined the brand. That mattered because Pool of Radiance was already a name with history, having sold more than 800,000 units worldwide by 1996.

The problem was that the comeback never quite stuck. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor was badly hampered by bugs and a combat-heavy design that never reached the elegance of genre landmarks like Baldur’s Gate 2. Metacritic currently lists the PC version with a 57 Metascore based on 19 critic reviews, and GameSpot called it repetitive, cumbersome, and technically troubled. Some reviewers did praise its graphics and tactical combat, but the overall reception stayed mixed to negative, which is a big reason the game faded from mainstream memory.

That history may actually be the point of bringing it back now. SNEG has been framing its recent rereleases, including Warhammer Classics, as a preservation effort, and its July 2026 slate also includes Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria, Soldiers at War, Dark Earth, Ecstatica, and Ecstatica 2. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor fits that same approach: not a victory lap for a universally beloved classic, but a chance to put a long-missing PC RPG back within reach on today’s storefronts. For players who missed it the first time, the value is less about prestige than access, and that is exactly what this release finally delivers.