Reception
Sales of the original 3½" floppy disk release were slow, but the game became a hit when it was re-released on CD-ROM. The game was received well by both the players and the critics and currently has an 88% rating at Game Rankings.
Finnish video game magazine Pelit gave the game a 94% verdict, calling the game citing "the wonderful game system, lack of bugs, and the book-like atmosphere" and said "Krondor is as big a revolution in turn-based role-playing games as the Underworlds were in 3D role-playing games." A less enthustiastic review by Sandy Petersen appeared in 1993 in Dragon magazine #199 in the "Eye of the Monitor" column, in which he gave the game two stars out of five. Though Petersen praised the graphics for being "well-rendered" at times and for its "rather entertaining plot", he chastised the gameplay for being slow and for subjecting the player to "dull maintenance activities", such as armor polishing, as well as quests that he found frustratingly hard to understand how to complete. Quandary gave it a 4.5/5 in its 1996 review, calling it "no ordinary role-playing game" with its "complex" immersive environment, traps, and riddles replacing "the usual pits and levers and rolling rocks that are more common in role-playing dungeons." They also called the strategic turn-based combat "very satisfying" though "it takes a little getting used to."
PC Gamer listed Krondor as one of the top fifty computer games of all time in their 1997 survey.
Computer Gaming World (Now Games for Windows) gave Betrayal at Krondor their Best Game of the Year award for 1993 then ranked it #43 on their list of the 150 best games of all time in their November 1996 Anniversary Edition. It was added to their Hall of Fame in 2001, saying it was the "first role-playing game to offer a 3D environment and...one of the first games to use digitized images effectively in the context of a role-playing game."
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