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 own both the Classic edition and the Enhanced editions and I have to say, one you get used to the EE it's difficult to go back to the originals. You can get close to the EE experience in the classic versions if you are OK with taking the time to research the various mods and install them, but if you want to play right out of the gate I'd recommend the EE over the original.
The Enhanced Edition isn't flawless however, I've noticed a strange bug in the interface with US Scaling turnd on in which there is a small section of the screen you can't click on. It's only really a problem with the level up screen preventing you from clicking the plus sign next to skills to add points to it. However, this can be worked around by turning off UI scaling when leveling up or just not using it at all. It's a minor thing since leveling only happens so often.
Unless you are a die hard purist for the originals I'd say this is the way to go.
I can't say enough good about this, even though it's old its still supper fun to play.
Some might have issues with the D&D 2nd edition rules (which i cut my teeth on), but aside from character creation it should not hinder anyone.
My first experience playing Baldur's Gate was from a multi-disc folio in 1999. I revisited the EE version in early 2020, and it has come a long way. I love turn-based RPGs with an emphasis on story. Baldur's Gate gave that, and I remembered it fondly, but never fondly enough to play the sequel.
With EE, though, came Siege of Dragonspear. Oft-maligned, SoD adds a few things that finally made me start playing the sequel. First, it bridges the gap. When SoD ends, you are thirsty to find out what happens next. It not only resolves the story from BG1, but it makes the gear-erasing opening scenes of BG2 palatable by making them part of the story.
Another thing SoD and EE bring to the mix is fresh new NPCs. I never cared for Minsc. But with Khalid and Jaheira, I was left to fill out my party with someone I just didn't want. EE gave me plenty of heroic options that brought a wealth of story. SoD scattered them to the four winds and made me hunt them back again, but I DID get them back; I still felt like I was playing "my group" by the end.
SoD also gives an epic conclusion to the story of BG1. There's nothing wrong with the end of BG1, but the finale we get in SoD is epic by comparison. As a lifelong DM, it's the ending I would give my tenth-level party.
Players may be nervous that there's been a lot of talk about a single transgender NPC. Take this: I read six paragraphs of a dwarf talking about how he needs new boots or he's just sure he'll die in his next fight. Then I read three paragraphs of a woman explaining how meaningful it was that I returned something to her. Both were explanations of the McGuffin hunt that I had just completed. Both were as meaningful to the story. The only way to be offended is to be offended that this NPC simply exists. The fact that mere existence was offensive to so many is the real story.
For twenty years I went without playing BG2. Because of EE, I have begun and already progressed into the second chapter...and I have zero regrets.
I love this game so much. I've beat it at least 5 times in my life. Maybe more. I learned about this game in 1999... I was in 8th grade. My friend and I were in detention with our social studies teacher. We were talking about Diablo 1 and how good it was. Our teacher overheard us talking and laughed at us and told us about Baldur's Gate and how much better of a game it was compared to Diablo lol. He was a good teacher haha! I was intrigued, so I bought the game... and it blew my mind. That was my first experience with the D&D universe.
It's just so good. Idk what else to say. Every good isometric RPG in the past 20 years has been inspired/influenced by Baldur's Gate in one way or another. This game is the godfather of isometric RPG's. If you never played Baldur's Gate, JUST DO IT! You won't regret it. Ugh... so good.
I don't own and never played Enchanced Edition. But since you can't review Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga anymore on GOG I will do it here.
My first memory of this game is from high school. When my friends played it and talk about all the time. Somehow I haven't played it then, but it stayed in my memory and 10 years ago I finally tried it. Since then I have completed it four times.
I could write about it's charming soundtrack (I still listen), beautiful detailed graphic, replayability and well done D&D mechanic and world implementations.
But what keep me most is it's slow, quiet, peaceful experience. Countless hours of travel through the wilderness, forests, shores and mountains that fill the space between villages, towns and cities like Baldur's Gate itself. That feeling you really travel through the real world and nature. It's almost like reading Lord of the Rings books.
I know there is Baldur's Gate 2 with more of everything, but first game has its unique quality and vibe which for I love it. It's similar as Fallout compares to Fallout 2 in this regards.
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