Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Beamdog · 2013 · RPG, CRPG, Story Rich, Fantasy, Party-Based RPG
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About Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Gather your party and delve into one of gaming's greatest fantasy RPGs, where you escape a wizard's torturous captivity and navigate a world of intrigue, combat, and moral choices across two massive campaigns. Build your hero from 11 classes with countless subclasses, recruit legendary companions, and decide whether to resist or embrace your dark destiny in this meticulously enhanced classic that respects its 2nd Edition D&D roots while supporting modern displays and cross-platform play.
The Classic Adventure Continues
Baldur'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 Content
The 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?
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 1 of 1 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players widely praise Baldur's Gate 2 as one of the greatest RPGs ever made, celebrating its legendary villain, deep stat-based storytelling, extensive character customization, and rich lore that defined the CRPG genre. However, some criticize its aged 2nd Edition AD&D mechanics, significant mage balance issues that can make them overpowered, clunky user interface elements, and restrictive keybindings that can't be customized.
[h1][b] TLDR: The definitive classic CRPG with a legendary villain, vast world, and deep stat-based storytelling, though aged AD&D mechanics and severe mage balance issues remind you this is a 25-year-old game. [/b] [/h1] [h1]PROS: [/h1] ➕Classic CRPG gameplay ➕Tons of class/race/stat options for builds ➕Stat-based dialogue ➕Deep lore and excellent narrative [h1]CONS: [/h1] ➖Advanced D&D (2nd Edition) is IMO not as fun as 5E ➖Some balance issues - Any mage is usually overpowered ➖Some clunky/dated mechanics - inventory/movement/UI ➖Restrictive keybinds - can’t change binds like quick save (Q) to F5 [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/Synikx/recommended/228280?snr=1_5_9__402]My review for Baldur’s Gate 1 (BG1) here.[/url] I should mention that my playtime is short simply because I’ve played BG2 numerous times and didn’t want a full playthrough, just wanted to check out BG2:Enhanced Edition on PC. [h1] [b] Content (Game world/Narrative) – [9/10] [/b] [/h1] The game world is a rich and deep fantasy world consisting of many areas, all from the top-down perspective. Improving from BG1, there is much more diversity and fleshed-out areas full of many quests, secrets, and exploration. …1 found this helpful
I hate AD&D
BG1 and BG2 are the best games of all time. I'm 100% certain that there is no nostalgia in my opinion.
Best RPG of all time. Period.
Best!
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