Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

The classic adventure returns! Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition includes the original Baldur’s Gate adventure, the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion, and all-new content including three new party members.

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a rpg, fantasy and dungeons & dragons game developed and published by Beamdog.
Released on January 16th 2013 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 15 languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Czech, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian and Hungarian.

It has received 15,857 reviews of which 14,610 were positive and 1,247 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.87€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition into these genres:

RPG Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons CRPG Isometric Party-Based RPG Real-Time with Pause Singleplayer Story Rich Character Customization Old School Adventure Co-op Multiplayer Magic Online Co-Op Atmospheric Action-Adventure Remake Strategy

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *:Windows 7, 8.1, 10 64 bit
Processor: Dual Core Processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Hard Drive: 5 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.9
Processor: Dual Core Processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Hard Drive: 5 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 or equivalent
Processor: Dual Core Processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Hard Drive: 5 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

BG is a CRPG, which means: It has a niche. This game is entirely different to the modern BG3. Don't come with the same expectations. Why play this? [*] You want a complex game system (Magic, combat) [*] You like to experiment with character builds [*] The story is really good [*] You like DnD and have that scratch to play a DnD-like game (Check for more games in the CRPG tag, if this is a check for you) [*] Replayability. The variety of classes and companions make for an entertaining game to replay, where you can test your knowledge of the game, and making op builds, or meme builds [*] You like to roleplay in-game: The game makes you feel part of the story, it makes a good job to feel relevant to the plot Why avoid this? [*] Too much information, it has a high learning curve on the combat system (all class' abilities, spells and system properties like THAC0, may be too much information) [*] You don't like turn-based ARPGs. Even though the game is real time, all events happen in rounds of 6 seconds, and the pause makes it still a turn-based game. [*] Art, I understand that as much as I may like the art and look & feel, it is outdated by today's standards and may not be popular. [*] You don't like dying. In this game you will quicksave often, because you will die often, it is nothing bad, as you will learn and develop ways to deal with situations, but if that stresses you, well... CRPGs may not be for you Recommendation for a first run Just choose a race that sounds cool or you want to roleplay as. Choose a class that sounds fun (Spellcasters like wizards or sorcerers may have a lot of information for a first timer if you want to play as a spellcaster. If you want to use magic, I'd recommend half casters like Clerics, it hits hard with melee, and will give you time to adapt to the magic system). Spin the stat die until you get 86+ stat points. SAVE YOUR CHARACTER (Or you will need to respin that die and waste your time). And once you start, just roleplay as your character, learn the system at your pace, it will take time, but if you have patience, you will find a really complex and interesting game, that will entertain you for 100+ hours. Save often (Quicksave with Q). Any unoptimized build can beat the game on normal/core rules, so there is no need to feel pressured because you aren't min-maxing good enough (And if you feel the game is easy or hard, you can change the difficulty at any moment).

Aug. 2024

I wanted to refund the game at first because I did not understand how the game worked. I could not refund it, so I decided I am going to beat the game. I looked up guides for how to play and suddenly the game opened up to me. Currently going through as a generalist wizard and having a blast. I understand why this game is considered a classic now, highly recommend to anyone who enjoys fantasy rpgs and willing to learn.

May 2024

I went into this game completely blind. The roleplay aspects are VERY fun and the setting and worldbuilding are incredibly impressive given that this is a 1998 release. Not to mention the fact that Sarevok is probably my favorite villain I've ever encountered in any game ever. I definitely consider this title to be one of my new favorites and wish I could have played it earlier in life Fair warning, the game is so hard it sent me into some of the biggest gamer rages I've ever known. There isn't just a learning curve - the game straight up tosses you off a cliffside. I was playing on normal and I felt the difficulty was incredibly frustrating. The idea of playing a permadeath difficulty like Legacy of Bhaal sounds like straight up masochism and I extend my condolences to anyone who's crazy enough to actually attempt this.

March 2024

I would say that Baldur's Gate has aged keenly through this version. We tend to forget how clanky it used to work back in 1998, when the original game spanned 5 CD-ROMs. Loading screens ad nauseum, the unexplained un-pausing of the game whenever you went into the inventory screen, classic UI taking up about 40% of the screen, etc. Others coming from BG3 or just newer generations of RPGs have this habit of comparing apples to oranges without even understanding how and why they are doing it. When the aim of this game's world can easily be missed; it was designed as one that can be explored in a non-linear fashion. However, it will not coddle and bend the knee to the player at any place they might wander freely. The world is dangerous. NPCs can help explain the world at large to the player, or they may be caught up in their own lives to bother. "This world is not meant for you. It has existed long before you arrived in it... it will continue to exist long after you leave it." This is a mindset that I feel more new players should attempt to understand when picking this game up. And once this philosophy is kept in mind, I feel that more players can appreciate what the first Baldur's Gate adventure was. While there are vague investments to the stakes of current realm events, the fact remains (for most of this game) is that YOU are the adventurer who decides what to do next. Meaning that you must be conscious of when to continue down a path... or run and survive, adjusting your course for a time. Not all dungeons have that 'convenient rear exit' (that would become a tradition for newer games to have). And some might have a shortcut exit taking you to an unknown place with potential dangers your party may not be prepared for. Sometimes, it is safer (and wiser) to just go back the way you came. With exploration, there is always risk. Hence why several NPCs (early game) will tell you to stick to the roads in your travels. The heart of this game's story is (essentially) the formula of mystery. So the open-world aspect is there to give that player proper agency to discover (and actually adventure). In short, I still feel that this game is fantastic. But it can be brutal for those who might be looking something paced more like Diablo.

Dec. 2023

One of if not the best RPG ever. I have ADD and I can count the number of games I have completed on my hands. I have completed Baldur's gate at least 10 times.

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