Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor returns on Steam and GOG as a modern restoration

A Forgotten Realms dungeon crawl that was stuck offline for years is finally on storefronts again. Boutique publisher SNEG, working with Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro), has put the 2001 Stormfront Studios / Ubisoft title Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor on Steam and GOG as a digital restoration. Launch price is $19.99 USD / £16.75 / €19.99, and Steam News marks the November 6, 2026 release.

Back into Myth Drannor

The pitch is still the same party-based, turn-based cRPG that gold-box fans remember by name even if they never finished this sequel. A new Pool of Radiance has been found beneath New Phlan, and evil is spilling across the realm. Answering Elminster’s call, you build a party and push into the haunted ruins of Myth Drannor to stop a sorceress and a dracolich from turning that power against Faerûn. You create up to four heroes, recruit two more for a party of six, cast from a list of 90+ spells, and level characters as high as 16, with the option of classic turn-based fights or a timed-turn mode when you want more pressure.

What the restoration actually changes

SNEG’s Games Press release frames this as a comfort pass for modern hardware, not a remake. The build is tuned to run on current systems with original bugs cleaned up, widescreen support up to 4K, sharper visuals, a clearer UI with a new action bar and extra tooltips, full controller support, reworked camera controls, and adjustable combat animation speeds. If you want the old look and feel, an optional Legacy mode keeps the original gameplay and visuals, and granular settings let you decide how much modernization you keep on. The stated goal is discovery — make a large, tactical Forgotten Realms adventure easy to find and finish today without erasing the Stormfront DNA.

PPR take: Digital restorations of early-2000s D&D CRPGs are exactly the kind of quiet win the PC library needs. Ruins of Myth Drannor was always the awkward cousin of the Pool of Radiance name — a 3D party crawler that never got the easy re-release path the Gold Box games eventually found — so seeing SNEG and Wizards put it on Steam and GOG at twenty bucks with controller support and a Legacy toggle is the right kind of respect. I am not going to pretend every 2001 systems quirk ages like wine, but that is why the dual-path approach matters: newcomers get widescreen, tooltips and a camera that does not fight them, while veterans can dial it back toward the original. If you have been waiting to revisit Myth Drannor without hunting old discs, or you bounced off the game the first time because the UI felt like a museum piece, this is the version to try. Elminster called. The ruins are open again.