Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Party-based melee and spell combat against humans, bandits, and monsters shown from an isometric view, with small blood splatters on hit and death but no gore or dismemberment.
Ale and wine are sold and drunk in taverns and inns, and the player can buy and consume them.
The plot centers on murder, war profiteering, and the protagonist's heritage as a child of Bhaal, the god of murder, with themes of betrayal and destiny.
The player can pickpocket NPCs, steal from shops, and kill townsfolk, with reputation consequences.
Prostitutes appear as NPCs in the city who proposition the player through text dialogue.
Spooky locations such as crypts, spider nests, and undead enemies, at a low fright level.
Wolves, bears, spiders, and wild beasts are fought as ordinary combat encounters.
Some lore and dungeon scenes reference captives being tortured by villains.
Occasional flirtatious and suggestive dialogue with companions and townsfolk; nothing shown on screen.
Mild oaths and fantasy insults in dialogue.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a remaster of the classic 1998 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game set in the Forgotten Realms. Played from a top-down isometric view, you create a hero and lead a party of companions across the Sword Coast, taking quests, exploring towns and dungeons, and fighting bandits, cultists, and monsters in pausable real-time combat. Content includes fantasy weapon and spell violence with light blood effects, a story built around murder and the protagonist's divine parentage, taverns where alcohol is sold and drunk, opportunities to steal or kill, undead and spider encounters, and mild suggestive and romance dialogue including prostitute NPCs in the city. It can be played solo or in host/invite cooperative multiplayer.
How it's framed
The game frames the world through Dungeons & Dragons alignment, letting the player choose good, neutral, or evil paths; heroism, theft, and violence are presented as player choices with in-game reputation consequences rather than being endorsed, and the central conflict positions the player against forces spreading war and murder.
Details
- Developer
- Beamdog
- Publisher
- Beamdog
- Released
- Jan 16, 2013
Similar games
We built this because we needed it
Balanced Play pools your kids' game time into one budget across Steam, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and more. We're taking 100 founding families — free for life.
Claim a founding spot →Free for life for the first 100. No card, no spam.