Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3
Game
Game2013
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Developer Beamdog
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a 2012 role-playing video game developed by Overhaul Games, a division of Beamdog, and published by Atari. It was released for Microsoft Windows on November 28, 2012, with additional releases between 2012 and 2014 for iPad, OS X, Android and Linux and most recently for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on October 15, 2019. It is a remaster of the 1998 game Baldur's Gate… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
629 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
239 positive · 31 negative
95% range 84–92%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 78 | 8 | 220 |
| Steam reviews | 239 | 31 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 0 | 27 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 0 | 18 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
10,291 of 11,140 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
90% recommend · 212 yes, 24 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 236 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (16,751 of 18,127 positive).
Many players praise the game as a classic and influential RPG. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game feels dated and clunky by modern standards. [4][5][6] Several players recommend it for nostalgia or appreciation of CRPG history. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [15]
BG1 is one of the most important games in Video gaming history - a title that launched an entire genre, something that went on to define the games that came after. It was a landmark that things invariably moved around, as they changed and evolved, and a lot of games that came after can trace their history back to this one. That's why I wanted to experience it for myself, to be a part of a legacy that has spanned …
- [4]
Weirdly, I only recommend this game if you've played it before, preferably when it was released. If I played it now, without being there at the end of the 90s, and being completely blown away by it, I'd probably play this for an hour or so before going on to do something more fun. However!!! ........ However, I was probably about 26 when I played it, so half a lifetime ago for me, and it is nice to explore the open …
- [1]
It is a canonical work of rarely seen proportions. Baldur’s Gate is the role-playing game that set the standard for fantasy RPGs for decades, and if one were to compare its status and importance to works within cinema, it could fairly be called the Citizen Kane of role-playing games. That is how significant and influential BioWare’s 1998 classic truly is. From a gameplay perspective, it feels close to perfection, …
- [5]
ok so, ill get right to the point on this one: if you are coming here looking for a nostalgic old dungeons and dragons game with an engaging story and fun characters, you have come to the right place! HOWEVER, if you are coming here just after playing baldurs gate 3 then chances are that i would NOT recommend this game. this game is to old and clunky by today's standards and doesn't even make sense sometimes (ie: …
- [2]
Absolute classic. In which way? Let's take Dracula by Bram Stoker for example. Absolute horror classic that layed the basis of every single vampire story that came after. Does it mean it was one of a kind? Not really... Other vampire books were written before (Carmilla), but it was this one that stuck to people. When you're reading Dracula, you can sense just how much it has influenced pop culture and literature for …
Summarised from 34 of the 370 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition sits at 89% positive across 270 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition received mostly favorable reviews from critics; on aggregate review website Metacritic the game attains an overall score of 78 out of 100 on the PC. Shacknews praised the remaster, calling the game "a truly enhanced version of a classic game". IGN gave the game 8.1, saying that despite having several changes, Baldur's Gate has aged well, and that new players will have hours of fun, but also noted that players will have to approach it with an understanding of its increasingly "antiquated" framework. Role-playing game website GameBanshee gave the game a poor review, listing many bugs and oversights and commenting that they prefer the original version over…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 629 · most liked firstBaldur's Gate 3 is such a toxic game. I am halfway my second play through and I am already thinking about my 3rd one (probably finally doing dark urge). Like how I am I supposed to ever play another game 😭
positive · AI labelView post →fell down a rabbit hole, apparently the most thorough guides for Baldur's Gate 1&2 are written by a woman who has been thoroughly blogging all her video game opinions since the 1980s. she gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 2.1/10 rating and scathingly calls it a reddit RPG lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...
neutral · AI labelView post →Still playing Baldur's Gate 3 and gotta be said, this thing probably has the best character development of any game I've ever played, and not sure it's close either. Phenomenal work.
positive · AI labelView post →So with almost all digital game stores being based in the US,this could seriously fuck up the type of games we can release. We're not talking about small titles either. We're talking about Baldur's Gate 3, Disco Elysium, Cyberpunk and so on. 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 3 is a game about you and your bisexual friends trying to find adequate healthcare for a preexisting condition.
positive · AI labelView post →Halsin the druid from Baldur's Gate 3. Who is your favourite romance in the game?
neutral · AI labelView post →Coran. He is a character from old Baldur's Gate games and I love him. Still like this piece too. #art
neutral · AI labelView post →And as an aside - you should not doubt how fucking uncool D&D was in 1998 as a game, and how poisoned that particular well had been for a while. Baldur's Gate turned that around, and if you do want a road from D&D then to D&D now, it does strike me that Bioware's needs more credit than they get.
positive · AI labelView post →On some level I think these guys are residually mad that they could not call Baldur's Gate 3 a failure because that's a way gayer game by every objective measure.
positive · AI labelView post →You know, I still haven't actually finished Baldur's Gate 3, but I have finished the Shadowheart questline which was probably the real main game for me.
positive · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 3 is the greatest game ever made
positive · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 Stress Test Now Live - includes cross-play and Xbox Series S split-screen co-op baldursgate3.game/news/communi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Update to the latest version of Baldur's Gate 3 to enjoy a crash-free experience when starting the game through the GOG Mac launcher, safely create map markers on PS5 without getting booted, and grow slightly less patchy beards. Game Version: 4.1.1.7631656
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 25th birthday, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. A titan of AD&D CRPGing, a game that I was SO excited to play in 2000 and did not disappoint. Higher-level adventures that took us from the streets of Amn to the Underdark and across the Planes. You'll always have a special place in my heart.
positive · AI labelView post →Preorders open now! Good Smile Company Baldur's Gate III Nendoroid Astarion From the popular game "Baldur's Gate III" comes a Nendoroid of Astarion! Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/td4DRW #goodsmile
neutral · AI labelView post →"Cloakwood", a basic forest card illustrated for the MTG: Baldur's Gate. Very fun to reinterpret an area I'd played through in the original BG game twenty-some years ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you spent the past three years gleefully unravelling every plot thread in Baldur's Gate 3? Then you may be one of the few who've experienced some of the rarer scenes in the game! Let us know which one surprised you the most: www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pf...
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 1 literally birthed a genre of video game. Baldur's Gate 2 was hailed as a masterpiece in storytelling and acting for decades. I entreat the Internet to learn video game history. Pretty please with d20s on top 🙇♀️
positive · AI labelView post →The Game Awards statue was for Larian's new game, Divinity, a new RPG that's "even larger than Baldur's Gate 3 www.eurogamer.net/larian-annou...
neutral · AI labelView post →anyway I started up Baldur's Gate 3 again and I swear this time I'll finish the game and not stop playing after 60 hours for no reason 😅
positive · AI labelView post →The designer of this naked smurf game from 40 years ago also worked on Baldur's Gate 3 swashbucklingadventure.net/lawrence-sch...
neutral · AI labelView post →Realizing that healing in Baldur's Gate 3 is a waste of time in combat has made the game so much easier.
positive · AI labelView post →my debut on the absolutely wonderful Stacks (@thestacks.ca) is an interrogation on the sexuality of Baldur's Gate 3. We all know about the memetic Bear Sex, and how horny the game is, but what is Baldur's Gate 3 actually doing with sex? i'd be delighted if you read on to find out...
neutral · AI labelView post →Preorders open now! Good Smile Company Baldur's Gate III Nendoroid Shadowheart From the popular game "Baldur's Gate III" comes a Nendoroid of Shadowheart! Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/BlZVZF #goodsmile
neutral · AI labelView post →Delivering a package in Baldur's Gate? Sounds like an easy side quest 🫠 The Baldur's Gate Magic Con 2025 D&D Live game STARTS NOW: dndbeyond.link/DnDLiveMagic...
neutral · AI labelView post →happy 2 anniversaries to our beloved game Baldur's Gate 3! i painted this one for @dbtrartbook.bsky.social 's project 😋 #BG3 #BaldursGate3 #BG3Artbook #BG3fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →The new press secretary looks like a poorly designed NPC in a Baldur's Gate game. I see her face and immediately I'm wondering how many lines of dialogue I have to click through before combat begins.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone else get bored once they reach the final boss?. For some reason as soon as I get to the "end" of the game, I completely lose motivation to play. This happened with DOOM: Eternal, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Paper Mario TTYD, Cassette Beasts, Shovel Knight, Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, God of War, Mass Effect... Pretty much every game I've ever played. It's like the fun part was the journey, and I've seen everything the game has to offer, and I just don't really enjoy the ending process. Feels like a…
neutral · AI labelView post →Me reaching the lower city in Baldur's Gate and realizing how much of the game is actually left
positive · AI labelView post →Congratulations to the winner of the 2023 Nebula Award for Game Writing: Baldur's Gate 3!
neutral · AI labelView post →If you squint, Larian is now literally early 00's Bioware. - Known for making games with strong narratives - Is just coming off releasing a Baldur's Gate sequel that worked largely because it re-used their existing tech basis to great effect - They are now working on a sci-fi* game
neutral · AI labelView post →we can talk budget this, personnel that, but it's genuinely fucking crazy that one of THE biggest runaway megahits of this decade is a Baldur's Gate game and EA is liquidating The Baldur's Gate Company for loose change to make more FIFA. not even gonna to TRY and cash in on that? like not try at ALL
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Editions have been surprise added to Xbox Game Pass. www.xbox.com/en-us/games/...
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1998, Baldur's Gate redefined what a computer RPG—and videogame interpretation of the D&D ruleset—could be. Just two years later, Baldur's Gate 2 expanded on it so much that development nearly ballooned out of control. This is the story of one of the most influential and ambitious RPGs ever made.
neutral · AI labelView post →🔴 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙒𝙄𝙏𝘾𝙃!!! Journey to Baldur's Gate: Session 0-1 Game: Baldur's Gate 3 ⏩️ www.twitch.tv/pellylicious #Twitch #Gaymer #LGBTQ #Gay #Leather #Kink
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year 2023!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi #PortfolioDay I'm a former concept artist in game dev, my last published work was in Baldur's Gate 3. Now I'm focusing on my own personal 18+ spicy webcomic, Black Halo. I love monster men with pretty ladies. ❤️ Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/flamesofav... 🦇 BLACK HALO: blackhalo.the-comic.org
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess while I'm posting controversial video game takes: Baldur's Gate III is a landmark achievement in CRPGs and absolutely phenomenal as a game, but it's much more of a Divinity: Original Sin game than a Baldur's Gate game. Pillars of Eternity feels more suitable as a third Baldur's Gate game.
positive · AI labelView post →Show me your video game OCs 👀 Morana Fauconnoix (FFXIV) Tav (Baldur's Gate 3) The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate 3) Astele (Dragon Age: The Veilguard)
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for a new game of Baldur's Gate 3 ⚔️
neutral · AI labelView post →BG1 is one of the most important games in Video gaming history - a title that launched an entire genre, something that went on to define the games that came after. It was a landmark that things invariably moved around, as they changed and evolved, and a lot of games that came after can trace their history back to this one. That's why I wanted to experience it for myself, to be a part of a legacy that has spanned most of gaming history. Unfortunately for me, while BG1's legacy is incredible, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If customers actually had a problem with however these morons define "woke", The Odyssey, Barbie, and Baldur's Gate 3 wouldn't have made billions of dollars. And if you want to look to boogeymen for those three games failing (the first one is even subjective), it's Game Pass, retrofitting a project into different designs twice, and being extremely late to the live service party.
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 1 was the first RPG I ever played (which I know, they published not developed, but still), and BG2 was the game that first made me want to get into voice acting. This is just gutting, man
positive · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Jennifer English pulls out of fantasy RPG Tides of Annihilation: "Recently, I've found myself needing to slow down".
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Editions' got added to Game Pass.
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate Game: Baldur's Gate 3 Dev: Larian Studios 🇧🇪 Release: 3 August 2023 Footage by @videogamebeach.bsky.social Thank you!
neutral · AI labelView post →Weirdly, I only recommend this game if you've played it before, preferably when it was released. If I played it now, without being there at the end of the 90s, and being completely blown away by it, I'd probably play this for an hour or so before going on to do something more fun. However!!! ........ However, I was probably about 26 when I played it, so half a lifetime ago for me, and it is nice to explore the open world maps again, and enjoy what these guys built. It's a comforting, retro…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EA is closing BioWare - the acclaimed studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Anthem, Baldur's Gate, and Star Wars: KotoR. 400 people have been laid off, with the new Mass Effect game now cancelled. EA was recently acquired by Saudi Arabia for $55bn. (Read more at Bloomberg)
neutral · AI labelView post →Emperor from the hit video game Baldur's Gate 3
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll never forget the experience of playing Baldur's Gate for the first time, adventuring in what my excited imagination took as a TTRPG's miniature-filled diorama having magically come to life. Thanks for the many adventures, on (and often below) the ground and in the stars above.
positive · AI labelView post →Bioware was one of the most fundamental game studios of my life, from watching my brother play the original Baldur's Gate for hundreds of hours, to Knights of the Old Republic rewiring my brain, to Mass Effect letting me explore my queerness, to Dragon Age II being the best game ever. Fuck, man.
positive · AI labelView post →The Walking Dead. Baldur's Gate 3. Divinity: Original Sin. Every single Witcher game, and Cyberpunk 2077 to boot. A truly incalculable number of weird visual novels, RPGs, and tactics games. All with their roots leading back to one or more Bioware titles. Fucking gutting, man
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate 3 is "a great game," but Warlock devs say their own virtual D&D experience is "very different" from Larian's RPG.
neutral · AI labelView post →I played through a good chunk of the original Baldur's Gate last year, and it remains a special game. Such a shame a studio with influential titles like that under its belt has to get dumped in the EA mass grave.
positive · AI labelView post →Got a brand new article here for ko-fi supporters! After 1000+ hours with Baldur's Gate 3 I'm still able to write a breathlessly excitable article that tries to cram everything I adore about the game - the reactivity, the improvisation, the cast - into one place: ko-fi.com/Post/Baldurs...
positive · AI labelView post →Another Totally Overrated Game on Steam :( As a long time fan of D&D based games I really WANTED to like this game but... 54% of players literally don't survive the first hour in game before giving up. See why below. 1. It's not that difficult, it's just extremely poorly explained and inaccessible to anyone but the very most die hard decades long fan, from character creation to questing to basically everything, it's inaccessible. 2. Examples: You create your character, have a prologue, go…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →November #promosky Hello, this is Robin. Some people call me Robin. 32, MDNI (21+ only pls) ☆ Baldur's Gate 3 ☆ Pokemon ☆ Zelda ☆ Elden Ring ☆ Kingdom Hearts ☆ Misc. Gaming ☆ Marvel (ish) ☆ Game of Thrones ☆ Writing ☆ Medieval/High Fantasy ♡/↺ if you want heh
neutral · AI labelView post →After finishing Baldur's Gate 3, I moved on to the next game on my list which was an action game. I thought I was ready to move on from the CRPG style of gameplay, but it turns out I was wrong. After getting curious and looking up the original games and then seeing that they would play on my Steam Deck, I immediately took advantage of a sale to pick them up. Well, you know where this is going. Bye bye planned action game. Hello, 1998 CRPG. There was no nostalgia effect for me. This was purely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming to this game in 2025 as a BG3 (and general DnD 5e) player, it uses an ancient and super obtuse version of DnD that can only have been designed by a sadist or a madman. The combat mixes real-time and turn-based and gets the worst of both worlds. Even after finishing the game I still have no idea when turns begin or end. There are far too many enemies, they are all dumb as bricks, and they respawn way too fast. That said, the foundation of this game is really interesting. It's got a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Baldur's Gate 3 and Expedition 33 First one is a great game, but combat is not the most important feature of the game IMHO. The other is very good, and the combat is more relevant. I think that the engagement is being able to build a strategy on how to win, instead of rely more on reaction.
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