A company freed trey games: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (set inside the steampunk/fantasy world), The Temple of Elemental Evil (based on a classic 1985 Dungeons & Dragons adventure) and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (based on White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game). Bloodlines was a 1st game to license Valve Software's Source engine, released on the same day as Half-Life 2.

When Troika was lauded by critics & gamers similar for their high quality storytelling & open back project, leaving players much of freedom inside training approach quests & obstacles in their games, a company has too been criticised for the big total of bugs which plagued each Temple & Bloodlines. All a same, the company enjoyed an first-class reputation among RPG gamers.

Around early 2005, Troika ran into financial pain, & was in time forced to lay bump off completely its staff & commence selling plus. When the company however lives as a legal suspire, these are there are no elongated a functioning stake development studio. Troika's founders develop stated, but, that these are conceivable that a company might sooner or later "regroup" however unbelievable. Ex-Troika staff use at times been picked higher per as a result corporations: Activision, Day One Studios, Mythic Entertainment, Obsidian Entertainment, Point of View, Seven Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment, Swingin' Ape, Turtle Rock, and Treyarch.