Best D&D Games to Play After Seeing Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves 

Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves has got us excited to relive our favourite Forgotten Realms adventures all over again! 

The 2023 Dungeons and Dragons film has made us adore this franchise more than we thought possible. From Holga’s love of potatoes to wild shaping into owlbears and Jarnathan, this film has hit all the right notes. Which just makes us want to crack out our click clack math rocks, dust off the character sheets, and start a whole new adventure. My Water Genasi, Swish, shall live again! If you’re anything like me, though, the weekly D&D game session just isn’t enough. So, we’ve whipped around the office to find out what D&D PC games everyone will be booting up. 

Baldur’s Gate 3 

The Baldur’s Gate Series is a classic among RPGs. Set in the familiar location of the Sword Coast, there were two main games with expansions and spin-offs. The Dark Alliance spin-off series was a favourite in my household growing up. Baldur’s Gate 3 coming to early access back in 2020 was a welcome addition. 

Baldur’s Gate 3 is an expansive RPG, with multiple classes to choose from and a rich story to follow. Your choices matter as you awaken to find a Mind Flayer parasite has been planted in your brain. As the parasite grows in strength so, too, do you, wielding mysterious and powerful abilities. Do you resist its corruptive call or embrace the darkness?  

The feather in Baldur’s Gate 3’s cap is that it is a next-generation RPG. You have unprecedented freedom to explore a world that interacts with your choices. No two adventures will be the same as the way you play directly influences the cinematic narrative. Plus, the turn-based combat is based on the D&D 5e ruleset, taking initiative, advantage or disadvantage, and roll modifiers into account. Resulting in fluid battles that reward strategy and forethought. 

Baldur’s Gate 3 Official Specifications

Think all of this will be too much for your PC to handle? Think again. 

OcUK Gaming Radiance Ember Powered by ASUS PC

Show that mind parasite what for, with a gaming PC powered by ASUS hardware. The OcUK Gaming Radiance Ember features a selection of ASUS TUF Gaming hardware, from PC case to AIO cooler. Tough, durable, stylish, and powerful. Equipped with an Intel Core i5-13600 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPU, this gaming PC is going to be your strongest ally in the fight against the Mind Flayer’s corruption. The hybrid P- and E-cores are intelligently managed by Thread Director, whilst the innovative Ada Lovelace architecture will beautifully render the Forgotten Realms. 

Even better, the OcUK Gaming Radiance Ember is a configurable gaming PC. You can adjust the base specs to better suit your gaming needs. Expand storage by increasing capacity or number of drives, opt for an operating system, and even change the cable extension kit colour!

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition 

Relive the classic Neverwinter Nights with the Enhanced Edition. This best-selling D&D game was first released over twenty years ago, but was upscaled and brought to Steam in 2018. In this third-person RPG that follows the D&D 3e ruleset, this is a tale heroism and betrayal where you must get to the bottom of what’s plaguing the city of Neverwinter. A classic Dungeons and Dragons adventure, full of magic, mystery, and danger. 

Staying true to its original fanbase, this game is backwards compatible with any of your old saves, modules, and community mods. As well as being enhanced for crisper and cleaner visuals in regular gameplay, modding tools have seen a massive quality of life improvement, with shaders, filters, textures, and more for creators to explore. 

Plus, the multiplayer system was completely rebuilt to make it easy for you and your friends to play together. 

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Official Specifications

Does your PC have what it takes to save Neverwinter? 

Refract Gaming Amber Pre-Built PC

The Refract Amber has been crafted for entry-level and mainstream gaming, making it the perfect PC for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. With its AMD Ryzen 5 7500F CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU, the Amber can expertly multitask, game, and support light content creation. The 16GB of DDR5 RAM and 1TB SSD mean you won’t be sat waiting on loading screens, instead you can jump right into the adventure.

Plus, the Refract Amber comes with a three-year warranty as standard. This covers both parts and labour, for that extra peace of mind. 

Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance 

Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance is one of our favourites for co-op gameplay, and is not to be confused with the Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance spin-off. (We need to get some new names for these games!) No, this exploration into the Forgotten Realms utilises real-time combat and dynamic co-op to create an explosive brawler jam-packed with action and adventure. 

You play as one of four classic D&D characters crafted by fantasy author R.A. Salvatore. Be the mystical Drizzt Do’Urden, strong and pragmatic Catti-brie, barbarian Wulfgar, or fierce Bruenor Battlehammer. Each has their own unique set of skills and weaponry to master, as you try to find the source of evil growing in the Icewind Dales. 

What’s more, this game is chock full of the monsters we all love to see. Beholders, ice giants, dragons – take them all on! 

Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance Official Specifications

Your gaming PC is the most important member of the team, does it have what it takes? 

OcUK Gaming Rapier Configurable PC

You don’t need finesse to make the OcUK Gaming Rapier the deadliest weapon in your toolset. Equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU, this gaming PC can utilise multi-threading technology for hyper-efficient performance. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super will bring Icewind Dale to life beautifully, with real-time ray tracing and AI-enhanced DLSS upscaling. Live every explosive detail the way it was supposed to be seen. Plus, with the included AIO water-cooling system, this gaming PC will stay cooler than a frost giant. 

The OcUK Gaming Rapier is part of our configurable PC range, giving you the option to pick and choose between selected hardware. Make upgrades to the PC case, CPU, memory, graphics card, cooler, storage, cables, and operating system to best suit your needs.

Neverwinter 

Now did this game only make the list because it’s one of my favourites? Possibly. But have I also been waiting patiently for two years for the opportunity to talk about it? Yes. So, shhh.

Neverwinter is a free-to-play MMORPG that lets you explore many, many famous locations from across the Sword Coast. From the city of Neverwinter to the Underdark, your quests will take you far and wide. There are a whole host of classes and races to play as, each with their own unique skill sets and fighting styles. (My character is a Barbarian because I lack finesse and just want to hit the monsters.) 

In addition to making merry solo adventures, you can join a guild (or create your own!), play as a party, join others in randomised parties to take on legendary-level dungeons, and train up artisans to craft resources. Or just go into a barbarian rage at every given opportunity, like I do. 

Neverwinter Official Specifications

What does Neverwinter need from your gaming PC?  

Gigabyte G6X Gaming Laptop

The Gigabyte G6X Gaming Laptop packs powerful performance into a portable, thin bezel – no bag of holding required! The 16” FHD+ display boasts a 165Hz refresh rate, which pairs beautifully with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU. Bring Neverwinter to life with photo-realistic graphics and smooth frame rates. Managing your workflows is the Intel Core i7-13650HX CPU, harnessing the innovative Raptor Lake hybrid architecture for enhanced efficiency. 

Keeping the Gigabyte G6X cool whilst you take on Valindra, Tiamat, and other iconic D&D villains is the WINDFORCE cooling system. The premium construction enhances heat transfer, ensuring it is efficiently and effectively removed from your vital hardware, keeping this laptop operating cool and quiet. Even under high-load gaming or multimedia processing. 

Tabletop Simulator

Is this last one a cheat? No. Tabletop Simulator may be designed for board games, but what is Dungeons and Dragons if not a tabletop game? TTS is effectively a physics sandbox game where you can bring every tabletop gaming dream to life. Even D&D. 

Simply open up a fresh table and start building! Using a vast library of blank tokens, boards, player figures, and more, you can craft a virtual D&D table for all your friends to enjoy. It’s simple to import images or 3D models and assign them to the various pieces on your table. There are even pre-made mini-figures of popular monsters, classes, and animals built into TTS that you can import to your game. Some have fun little actions, like dramatically falling to the ground when out of HP. 

This is also a great tool for game masters, as you can create hidden areas of the table, so the session stays a secret for your players. At the end of the session, you can easily save the game and pick back up at the next meet. Plus, if someone flips the table because you total party killed them, all is not lost.  

Tabletop Simulator Official Specifications

Here’s what it takes for your gaming PC to bring the virtual table to life. 

Refract Gaming Azure Pre-Built PC

Whilst the Tabletop Simulator specs aren’t that demanding, from experience the more you load onto the table, the harder it is for your computer to cope. Opening the Stardew Valley board game genuinely killed my old, old laptop. Plus, with its support for VR gameplay, it feels like a more muscly PC is in order. The Refract Azure is crafted for elite-tier, 1440p gaming and just the PC for the job. With its AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPU, this gaming PC can expertly render your complex D&D campaign with smooth frame rates. Plus, the 32GB of DDR5 RAM is more than enough to handle loading up larger games.

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Have you seen Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves? Tell us in the comments how much you loved it (no spoilers!) and which D&D game it has got you itching to play.