Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

WHILE THE FORGOTTEN REALMS can be a very welcoming campaign setting—just see the sandy beaches of Baldur’s Gate III for more on that—there’s a part of it, Icewind Dale, that is inhospitable and practically repels adventurers. And yet they keep setting games there.

Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance is a successor to the Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games of the mid-’00s, rather than the Infinity Engine titles of a few years earlier. This means a hack-and-slash action-RPG rather than anything with too many dice-rolls behind the scenes, and a slip into a third-person viewpoint from the traditional top-down