The Temple of Elemental Evil
Troika Games · 2025 · RPG, Turn-Based, Fantasy, Singleplayer, Isometric
PC
Mostly Positive70% · 341
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About The Temple of Elemental Evil
The Temple of Elemental Evil, first released in 2003, has inspired a passionate community for over two decades. This updated edition is a true labor of love, shaped by years of fan dedication and the incredible efforts of the Circle of Eight and Temple+ modding communities. It brings the classic D&D adventure to life for modern players with over a thousand fixes and improvements - from enhanced stability and AI to smoother performance, refined UI, and countless quality-of-life updates. We’re deeply thankful to everyone who’s helped preserve and evolve this classic.
THE STORY SO FAR:
An evil demoness founded a cult dedicated to exploring evil in its most elemental forms. This cult was based in a temple just outside the village of Hommlet in a vile shire known as Nulb. Soon, this cult ruled the region with tyranny; times of chaos and violence ensued. Hard-fought battles were waged and the war was eventually won by the good armies of nearby lands. The temple was razed, the villains were imprisoned, and order was restored. The temple itself faded into distant memory...until now.THE ADVENTURE BEGINS:
Recently, bandits have begun patrolling the roads outside Hommlet and wicked forces are rumored to be afoot, converging on the ruined temple at Nulb. Their purposes for such meetings are as yet unknown. The identity of these people are equally a mystery. Some claim they are bent on slaying monsters and maintaining order within the region, but no one can be sure.So begins your adventure within the Realm of Greyhawk. It is an adventure that will lead to the source of a deep and abiding mystery, to the very core of evil itself.FEATURES:
- Multiple story paths and multiple endings
- Five controllable characters and three followers in each party
- Richly varied environments populated with reactive NPCs
- Characters that can be customized with skills, feats and spells
- Party-based adventuring and tactical turn-based combat
- Gameplay that supports all alignments
- Formidable obstacles including a wide array of monsters
- First PC game based on the classic Greyhawk module
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
*Excellent* version overall, really nice work SNEG!! That said, it's a little tricky to get the FULL Circle of 8 mod + Temple+ to work, but once you know how it functions it's not too bad (just follow the guide here in the Guides section, it's a great guide for doing that.) But yeah, bug-free 30 hours in and just having a blast playing, it works great, the WASD camera is beautiful, everything works as expected and it's truly a joy to play this very unique and OOZING with character, atmosphere and DEPTH as well, my goodness, this is a true GEM of gemz bros. And for your 2nd playthrough or Keep On The Borderlands module (which is a free FULL campaign, a usermade module for the engine), you can use Temple+ and the full Co8, which means extended character creation (SO cool, seriously!) more rules to play with, and just some really really great stuff overall. Classic stuff here in a super playable format, well done! A+ Peace & God Bless yall! <314 found this helpful
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.4 found this helpful
It's really getting ridiculous how incompetent the people doing "enhanced" editions and re-relases are. After finishing the games I read the comments on this version and realized that nearly all of the two levels of the temple were broken for me because of whatever SNEG did to the AI system. On the earth temple level everyone was instantly hostile AND clumped in just a couple of very large mob groups, with the majority of the level being just empty. Since this was my very first playthrough I just though Troika designed it this way, but no, this was just the Steam version being broken. Additionally, on several occasions I couldn't perform any actions because my game was stuck in combat mode and I couldn't exit it no matter what I did. Another classic game butchered by people who can barely read Python code which is even more tragic in this case since they were ALREADY using publicly available mods, where the modders did almost all of the work for SNEG and they STILL BROKE THE GAME FURTHER. Stay away and get the GOG version, install Temple+ and Circle of Eight modpack - it's what I should have done from the beginning.3 found this helpful
Just fun getting back into old game
Took me 60 hours to finish and another roughly 50 hours to 100% complete the game. With all the rare achievements, its worth it. Its an old game so be prepared for some bugs, but its all manageable. Quite a blast from the past!
The SNEG remake on Steam is worth buying. Its one of the few D&D 3.5 edition games out there. Temple of Elemental Evil was the pinnacle adventure in Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk and it is full of Easter Eggs such as his children's characters in the game. Its mostly stable and a fun slog. Its challenging at low levels so be prepared for the occasional reload.
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