Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

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Gather Your Party Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition brings the iconic 1990s RPG experience to life within the rich, rules-driven world of Dungeons & Dragons. Forge your own path by customizing your character, assembling a band of loyal companions, and embarking on an epic journey across the legendary Sword Coast—where every choice leads to adventure, fortune, and long-buried secrets.

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Developer:
Overhaul Games
Publisher:
Atari, Inc.
Engine:
Infinity Engine
Release date:
16 January 2013
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (107)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (9375)

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Gather Your Party


Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition brings the iconic 1990s RPG experience to life within the rich, rules-driven world of Dungeons & Dragons.

Forge your own path by customizing your character, assembling a band of loyal companions, and embarking on an epic journey across the legendary Sword Coast—where every choice leads to adventure, fortune, and long-buried secrets.

75+ Hours of Adventure

Immerse yourself in over 75 hours of rich storytelling and exploration, packed with the original Baldur’s Gate campaign, the beloved Tales of the Sword Coast expansion, and thrilling new content including the deadly challenges of the Black Pits arena!

  • Classic Campaign: Relive the groundbreaking Baldur’s Gate adventure that started it all
  • Expansion: Continue your journey with the Sword Coast’s most treasured add-on, Tales of the Sword Coast
  • New Challenges: Test your might in The Black Pits—arena-style combat unlike anything before
  • New Difficulty Setting: Story Mode lets you focus on narrative and discovery with reduced emphasis on combat
  • Paid DLC Expansion Available: Uncover a brand-new chapter in the saga—*Siege of Dragonspear*—expanding the story like never before

Epic Characters


  • 11 Playable Classes with a wide range of subclasses to choose from
  • Recruit Legendary Companions such as Minsc, the fearless ranger, and his trusty battle hamster, Boo!
  • 3 New Recruitables: Wield chaos with Neera the Wild Mage, embrace dark power as Dorn Il-Khan the Blackguard, or master martial discipline as Rasaad yn Bashir the Monk
  • Custom Voice Packs: Personalize your protagonist with new voice options
  • Meaningful Choices: In a world shaped by your decisions, every dialogue and action carries weight

Classic Gameplay

  • Stunning 2D isometric visuals
  • Real-time-with-pause combat—strategize on the fly or command your party with precision
  • Authentically adapts Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition rules

Enhanced for Modern Platforms

  • Over 400 quality-of-life improvements and enhancements
  • Seamless support for modern high-resolution widescreen displays
  • Optimized for today’s systems—runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux

Story-Rich Gaming Experience


Forced to flee your secluded home under shadowy circumstances, you’re thrust into a growing conflict threatening to ignite the entire Sword Coast. Raised within the ancient fortress of Candlekeep, shielded from danger by your guardian Gorion, your life of quiet safety is shattered. A greater destiny awaits—one of peril, power, and revelation.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

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

recommended*

Not specified

User reviews

AMariseS99
Recommended | 09 Jul 2026
68.1h played

It takes time to figure out the controls on a Steam Deck. L trigger is right-click, R trigger is left-click, left paddle is maps, right paddle is inventory, right trackpad to move cursor, left trackpad to zoom. There

Helpful: 2
MouthofHadar
Recommended | 16 Jul 2026
116h played

Still hits. Fun way to toy around with early D&D rules. I find the jank charming (and my Save vs Charm is uh... hang on, so my Wisdom modifier, plus... um, I think it's not good)

Helpful: 0
Jode
Not recommended | 05 Jul 2026
130h played

Tl;dr: The game's highlights are stretched so thin by excessive random encounters, superfluous content, and sluggish pacing that the average quality of the experience per hour is no longer high enough to justify the

Helpful: 3
Jumbo_pig56
Not recommended | 07 Jul 2026
42.3h played

In short: It's a 1998 remastered for the 21st century, however I still think this game is still far too old and outdated to really be enjoyable for a modern audience. First of all, it's slow, really really slow. It

Helpful: 2
Mr.Alex
Not recommended | 08 Jul 2026
183h played

TLDR; Baldur's Gate 1 is a Bad Dungeon Master running an Amazing Campaign I really love this game I really do but I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone. Years of good CRPG design that has fixed this game's every

Helpful: 0
Phantasmagoria
Recommended | 16 Jul 2026
26.8h played

It's a classic, and gameplay-wise it's probably the best adaptation of any TTRPG to date. Not quite the masterpiece of gaming I was hoping for, but it is very good and worth the time if you have it to spare enjoying it

Helpful: 0