Games
| Title | Release | Windows | Mac OS | PS2 | Xbox | GameCube | GBA | Android | iOS | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldur's Gate | 1998 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Developed by BioWare |
| Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast | 1999 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Expansion, developed by BioWare |
| Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn | 2000 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Developed by BioWare |
| Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal | 2001 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Expansion, developed by BioWare |
| Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance | 2001–2004 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Spin-off, originally developed by Snowblind Studios |
| Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II | 2004 | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Spin-off |
| Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound | Cancelled | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Was to be developed by Black Isle Studios |
| Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition | 2012 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Enhanced Edition, developed by Overhaul Games |
| Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition | 2013 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Enhanced Edition, developed by Overhaul Games |
The Baldur's Gate series brought many technical advancements over computer-based role-playing games of the past. BioWare's Infinity Engine offers a pre-rendered isometric worldview, with sprite-based characters. Baldur's Gate was also the third computer game ever to make use of the Lua scripting language. The engine was also used for Planescape: Torment and the Icewind Dale series.
The games are based on a real-time modification of the second edition AD&D (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) ruleset. The player's party can have up to six members, either created by the player according to the AD&D rules or NPCs recruited by the protagonist from the game world. Numerous side quests and plot twists are associated with particular NPCs and can be activated if they are found in the player's party. Through extensive, context-dependent dialogue, many characters inside and outside the player's party are fleshed out and given an added level of complexity.
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