Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition
The Classic Adventure ContinuesBaldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition is the beloved RPG classic, enhanced for modern adventurers.
Continue a journey started in Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, or customize a new hero to forge your path.Campaign ContentThe Enhanced Edition includes the original Shadows of Amn campaign, the Throne of Bhaal expansion, plus brand new challenges in the Black Pits II arena!
- Classic Campaign: The Original Shadows of Amn Adventure
- Expansion: Throne of Bhaal
- New Challenges: The Black Pits II: Gladiators of Thay, arena style battles
- New Difficulty Setting: Story Mode allows players to focus on story and exploration, rather than combat and survival
Epic Characters
- 11 Playable Classes plus dozens of subclasses
- Recruit Classic Characters like Minsc and his brave hamster, Boo!
- 5 New NPCs: Neera the Wild Mage, Dorn Il-Khan the Blackguard, Rasaad yn Bashir the Monk, Hexxat the Thief, and Wilson the Bear
- New player voice sets to customize your hero
- Upload Characters from Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, or forge ahead with a brand new hero
Classic Gameplay
- 2-D isometric graphics
- Real-time-with-pause combat
- Adapts 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons Rules
Enhanced for Modern Platforms
- Hundreds of bug fixes and improvements to the original game
- Native support for high-resolution widescreen displays
- Cross-play multiplayer support for Windows, Linux, and macOS
A Story-Rich RPG
Kidnapped. Imprisoned. Tortured. The wizard Irenicus holds you captive in his stronghold, attempting to strip you of the powers that are your birthright.
Can you resist the evil in your blood and forsake the dark destiny that awaits you? Or will you embrace your monstrous nature and ascend to godhood as the new Lord of Murder?
Game Discussion
Steam User 36
10/10
Best mods:
- EEKeeper
- Edit "baldur.lua" file and set "ShowAOE" to "1" instead of "0"
- Bubb13/EEex
- Bubb13/Bubbs-Spell-Menu-Extended
- Dragonspear UI++
Steam User 43
This was my father's favorite game. He tried making me like it a few times, when I was around 6-7 years old. Obviously I was too young to enjoy or understand it, and I usually ended up asking if I could play Skyrim or Oblivion instead (my two favorite games at the time).
Now I decided to buy it, it felt right, as opposed to cracking it like I usually do with my singleplayer games. I bought the game, read the whole manual, and played for 5 hours. I am instantly sucked in. It is only now I closed the game because I have to sleep, as I write this review it is getting late. I am sure I will enjoy this game thouroughly.
Steam User 40
you just need to look at how long I played this game for, even being a latecomer to Baldur's Gate. It won't hold up to current gamers who are used to the plushy graphics and smooth control systems of most new titles and CRPG's aren't exactly mainstream anymore, but if there's a king of the genre this is it.
Steam User 19
One of Canada's greatest contribution to culture, second only to Heated Rivalry.
Steam User 14
Tough to get into when you've gotten used to modern day game play. Hard to put down once it has sucked you in.
Steam User 13
Dated but still worth every penny. Bg1, its expansion, siege of dragon spear and then bg2 with its expansion essentially play as one unbroken game/storyline. Amazing story but the gameplay/combat does have a learning curve if you're unfamiliar with dnd. Game has hours and hours of content that has serious replayability. This game was ahead of its time and I cannot recommend this classic title enough.
Steam User 14
Still the GOAT. Best crpg of all time. And my personal favorite game of all time. I will forever be salty that Baldur's Gate 3 ignores this game and goes with some stupid "canon" arbitralily decided by WotC at some point. I know this is me being an old f*** being grumpy and complaining about the new fangled stuff the youth uses, but I feel it should be forbidden to play Baldur's Gate 3 without playing the original beforehand :P
If you own the first one too, I'd advise to use the EET mod that puts all the parets together into the engine of the second game and makes for one continues experience. You absolutely should play the first game before the second, otherwise you will miss out on a great story and the story of the second game will have some holes in it.
Throne of Bhaal, the conclusion of the trilogy (Baldur's Gate 3 should absolutely have been it's own thing :( ) is a bit devisive. It's goes into epic levels, with massively overtuned enemies to compensate your party having levels never meant to exist in AD&D, so it can be quite frustrating, but it is also the weakest story wise, so you won't miss out so much if you decide to quit when encountering a brick wall when trying it.