Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition includes the classic Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga. More information here.
Gather Your Party
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a story-driven 90s RPG set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons.
Customize your hero, recruit a party of brave allies, and explore th...
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition includes the classic Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga. More information here.
Gather Your Party
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a story-driven 90s RPG set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons.
Customize your hero, recruit a party of brave allies, and explore the Sword Coast in your search for adventure, profit… and the truth.
75+ Hours of Adventure
The Enhanced Edition contains over 75 hours of gameplay, including the original campaign, the classic Sword Coast expansion, plus brand new challenges in the Black Pits arena!
Classic Campaign: The Original Baldur’s Gate Adventure
Expansion: Tales of the Sword Coast expansion
New Challenges: The Black Pits, arena style battles
New Difficulty Setting: Story Mode allows players to focus on story and exploration, rather than combat and survival
Paid DLC Expansion Available: Siege of Dragonspear is a brand new chapter in the Baldur's Gate saga!
Epic Characters
11 Playable Classes plus dozens of subclasses
Recruit Classic Characters like Minsc and his brave hamster, Boo!
3 New Recruitable Heroes: Neera the Wild Mage, Dorn Il-Khan the Blackguard, and Rasaad yn Bashir the Monk
New player voice sets to customize your hero
Story-driven gameplay means character choices matter
Classic Gameplay
2-D isometric graphics
Real-time-with-pause combat
Adapts 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons Rules
Enhanced for Modern Platforms
Over 400 improvements to the original game
Native support for high-resolution widescreen displays
The 1998 Classic, enhanced for modern Windows, macOS and Linux players!
Story-Rich Gaming Experience
Forced to leave your home under mysterious circumstances, you find yourself drawn into a conflict that has the Sword Coast on the brink of war.
Your view of the world has been limited to the heavily fortified walls of Candlekeep. Your foster father, Gorion, has done everything in his power to protect you, and keep you out of harm’s way. All that is about to change...
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Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition v2.5 for 32bit Windows
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Cross-platform multiplayer is supported.
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Recommended system requirements:
Cross-platform multiplayer is supported.
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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I bought this piece of excrement to play the Black Pits together with a friend. We've spent 6 hours "playing", 2 of which we've played, most of which we've fiddled with various things.
After the 5th (or so) fight in the Pits we actually had to program our way out of a bug which has clearly been prevalent for about a year, according to the online (non-Beamdog sources) we managed to find.
An excellent game, but a shite version. Would not buy again.
I really can*t understand the critics who say that the EE is a bad port. It is certainly not. I consider myself a BG-Veteran, since I played the game about 12-15 times in the last 20 years. Beamdog made some nice graphical imrovements, ifex various bugs and added some nice content to the game. I really enjoyed it. Most people say say that BG II ist superior to the first game in every way. I'm probably one of the few guys who think that BG 1 was just as much fun. Personally, it was even more fun to play for me. For over 20 years now, BG is (next to Fallout II & II) my favourite game. This was one of the first free-choice games with a relatively open word setting (in an isometric perspective). The scenerie is beautiful, the gameplay is well balanced and the replay-value is superb, since there are so many quest options und various companions to choose from, which all bring their side quests. The best part, of course, is that there is a huge active modding-community that has developed some great mods that increas the depth of the hame even more. Overall, I highly recommend this game.
I have autism and am very particular about the games I play. The original Baldur's Gate came out when I was 13 and I have loved it ever since. I've beaten the game dozens of times. For years, I have refused to play the enhanced edition because it had qualities that I was convinced I wouldn’t like. But with some convincing from my wife, I have finally tried it out. After playing it for a few hours, I have to say that it's okay. I don't like the GUI's look (would have preferred the old stone and gold look of the original) and I really don't like the new companions (they stick out like a red shirt in a group of green shirts). But the quality-of-life improvements are very, very good. The game runs way more smoothly and is easier for new and younger gamers to play this classic. Would I recommend this game? The answer is yes, I would. However, I would recommend that any new players to try a full play through of the Original Saga at least once just for the experience of what it was like back twenty years ago.
Baldur's Gate is through and through the pinnacle of AD&D based cRPGs of the 90s. It got realtime combat with pausing available, a solid story with multiple options of how to approach it and tons of extra content with little relation to the main plot. The Enhanced addition brings some nice updates and modern conveniences to Baldur's Gate, but unfortunately also brings in several new characters that don't really fit in with some very hamfisted writing.
The story follows your own crafted character as they have to come to terms with their heritage and figure out why are they are being hunting by a shadowy organization. You could try to play the stereotypical hero that always does whats right, a greedy sellsword, or a vicious murder hobo out for blood at every turn and still complete the game! While your choices don't always impact other events, your reputation often will and NPCs will sometime attack based purely on a strong Good or Bad reputation and certain quests can be sealed off forever based on your reputation as well.
There are two major things that will possibly turn off modern audiences from Baldur's Gate;
1) The game's pathfinding and AI is pretty awful even in the enhanced edition. Characters often decide to pick awful targets take long routes. Your characters will also often decide to B-Line hostile enemies, even if there are traps in the way or a dangerous AOE spell area lingering around. You have to micro manage your characters in combat and it's not easy even if you know all the tricks.
2) The game strongly follows Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition(AD&D 2e) rules and lore. AD&D was crafted in the 80s as a more advanced and complex version of the original Dungeons and Dragons(D&D). It was made before Video Game RPGs were a thing with Paper and Pen gameplay at it's heart. AD&D 2e rules may seem obtuse and non-intuitive to people who never played 80s paper and pen RPGs. There will be a rough learning curve for these type of people.
An amazing journey that started with tough times. With a lot of games restarted and a bit of frustration in time to time, but, my friends... This is an absolute gem that should never be forgotten. Worth to give it a try.
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