Baldur's Gate
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG)
- Platforms
- Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · iOS
- Release
- PC (Microsoft Windows) Dec 21, 1998 PC (Microsoft Windows) Jan 1999 Exact PC (Microsoft Windows) Jan 30, 1999 iOS Nov 30, 2012 Linux Oct 14, 2015 Mac Oct 14, 2015
- Credits
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B
BioWare
IE
Interplay Entertainment
BI
Black Isle Studios
BE
BioWare Edmonton
- Board status
- —
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 uncovering dark secrets about their origins and dealing with attempts on their life.
