Baldur's Gate: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Baldur's Gate (1998) is a role-playing (rpg) video game developed by BioWare, available on Linux, PC, iOS, Mac. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 85/100 on IGDB.

What is Baldur's Gate about?

Baldur's Gate is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment. It is the first game in the Baldur's Gate series and takes place in the Forgotten Realms, a high fantasy campaign setting, using a modified version of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) 2nd edition rules. It was the first game to use the Infinity Engine for its graphics, with Interplay using the engine for other Forgotten Realms-licensed games, including the Icewind Dale series, as well as other licensed D&D campaign worlds such as Planescape: Torment. The game's story focuses on players controlling a protagonist of their own creation who finds themselves travelling across the Sword Coast alongside a party of companions, to unravel the mystery surrounding a sudden iron crisis affecting the region and attempting to discover the culprits behind it, all while uncover

Key details

Baldur's Gate was released in 1998 and supports single player, co-operative. Platforms: Linux, PC, iOS, Mac. Developer: BioWare.

Should you play Baldur's Gate?

With a 85/100 aggregate score, Baldur's Gate ranks among the best-reviewed games in its genre and is widely considered a must-play.