Sadly, excitement became disappointment when the game was released. You start by creating a party of four characters (two extra NPCs can later be added), but the D&D 3rd Edition rules are heavily defaced – you can't play as Gnome, classes like Bard, Druid and Wizard are missing and the few skills and feats available are all automatically chosen based on your class.

Set in the ruins of the long-lost Elven city of Myth Drannor, the game doesn't have many role-playing options. It's a combat-focused dungeon crawl, with some of the largest dungeon floors you'll see. But while there are some nice outdoor areas later on, the game first forces you to explore extremely dull underground mazes, filled with hordes of the same few monsters.

Combat is a decent translation of D&D, crippled by a horrible interface. You can't see nor control the character's path, the AI is unstable and there's a short time limit on each character's turn – a useful feature in multiplayer, but a sin in single-player mode.

To make matters worse, the game plays glacially slow. Characters all take forever to walk, cast or attack (an undead group can take multiple minutes per turn) and you'll spend hours slowly backtracking gigantic mazes with unreliable maps and even worst path-finding.

Luckily, fans managed to create a handy mod to increase the game's speed. With it, Ruins of Myth Drannor becomes an actually playable experience, and those desperate for a turn-based D&D dungeon crawl might even find some enjoyment here – if they can endure the sheer boredom of the initial dungeon.

To crown its reputation, RoMD came with a wide range of bugs, including a legendary one: uninstalling the unpatched game could erase some of your system files, forcing you to reinstall Windows.

Objectively, there are worst CRPGs. But few can rival the disappointment – or dullness – seen here.