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.