Players in this RPG assume the roles of 4 speaking characters. The characters are caught in a web of political intrigue, secret societies, racial hatred, and also in personal discovery.

The novelization of the game is really to be appreciated. It has interconnected chapters of experience and nifty flashback bookkeeping feature. These effectively sidesteps the wander-and-yawn frustration sometimes found in RPGs that have an especially wide focus.

The game also features a fair number of side quests and sub-plots. These usually determine whether the quest gamer feels either empowered or railroaded. The game also features third person. It has turn-based strategic combat. Players who are partial to magic will find the games skill-based magic system good.

Both the games offer strong story-driven experiences that is evident by the fact that the games are segregated into “chapters,” during which the plot is advanced in a very linear, and of course predetermined fashion.

In the same way both the games need gamers to use preset characters, each of them possessing a fully developed, distinctive personality, and determine party membership alone in response to plot developments over which gamers have no control.

Betrayal at Krondor allowed gamers to develop their characters in a variety of ways by exploring a vast gaming world and also undertaking numerous subquests.

Return to Krondor provide gamers a much more restrictive gameplay. Here each of the chapter is set in a very discrete, confining geographic area and most of the chapters have no subquests at all and forcing the gamers to focus solely on their primary quest objectives.