About the Game
Gather Your Party
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a story-driven 90s RPG set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons.
Customize your hero, recruit a party of brave allies, and explore the Sword Coast in your search for adventure, profit… and the truth.
75+ Hours of Adventure
The Enhanced Edition contains over 75 hours of gameplay, including the original campaign, the classic Sword Coast expansion, plus brand new challenges in the Black Pits arena!
- Classic Campaign: The Original Baldur’s Gate Adventure
- Expansion: Tales of the Sword Coast expansion
- New Challenges: The Black Pits, arena style battles
- New Difficulty Setting: Story Mode allows players to focus on story and exploration, rather than combat and survival
- Paid DLC Expansion Available: Siege of Dragonspear is a brand new chapter in the Baldur's Gate saga!
Epic Characters

- 11 Playable Classes plus dozens of subclasses
- Recruit Classic Characters like Minsc and his brave hamster, Boo!
- 3 New Recruitable Heroes: Neera the Wild Mage, Dorn Il-Khan the Blackguard, and Rasaad yn Bashir the Monk
- New player voice sets to customize your hero
- Story-driven gameplay means character choices matter

Classic Gameplay
- 2-D isometric graphics
- Real-time-with-pause combat
- Adapts 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons Rules

Enhanced for Modern Platforms
- Over 400 improvements to the original game
- Native support for high-resolution widescreen displays
- The 1998 Classic, enhanced for modern Windows, macOS and Linux players!
Story-Rich Gaming Experience
Forced to leave your home under mysterious circumstances, you find yourself drawn into a conflict that has the Sword Coast on the brink of war.
Your view of the world has been limited to the heavily fortified walls of Candlekeep. Your foster father, Gorion, has done everything in his power to protect you, and keep you out of harm’s way. All that is about to change...

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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
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Greetings everyone!
The long-awaited 2.6 Patch for Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, and Icewind Dale Enhanced Editions launched to PC, Mac, and Linux in April. Today we're following that up with the 2.6.6 Patch to squash a few more bugs in these classic RPGs.
Thanks again to our heroic community members who tested out these fixes ahead of today's release.
Together, we are bug-kicking for goodness!🐹
Read on for full patch details...
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The long-awaited 2.6 Patch for Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, and Icewind Dale Enhanced Editions launched to PC, Mac, and Linux in April. Today we're following that up with the 2.6.6 Patch to squash a few more bugs in these classic RPGs.
Thanks again to our heroic community members who tested out these fixes ahead of today's release.
Together, we are bug-kicking for goodness!🐹
Read on for full patch details...
2.6.6 PATCH NOTES
UPDATES | ALL GAMES
- Clicking Sounds | Prevented extra button click sounds from playing in the User Interface (UI)
- Lightning Bolt Traps | Lightning bolts from the lightning mephit trap and mephit attacks will no longer bounce
- Melf's Minute Meteors | Fixed the removing of Melf's Minute Meteors (and any similarly implemented spell) when a character moves in Multiplayer
- Multiplayer | Fixed a Multiplayer issue where a newly added party member was not visible or controllable
- Multiplayer | Fixed a Multiplayer issue where the 6th slot characters were having the HP and inventory inadvertently changed
- Multiplayer | Fixed a rare issue where clicking on Multiplayer would crash the game
- World Map | The World Map no longer reopens when travelling to the same location
UPDATES | BALDUR'S GATE: ENHANCED EDITION
- Tremain | Tremain will now successfully revive his son
- Yeslick's Dispel Magic | Yeslick's special ability Dispel Magic no longer applies the continuous graphical effect
- Siege of Dragonspear | Fixed a crash when travelling to the Coalition Camp
- Siege of Dragonspear | Fixed a Linux crash after a dialogue with Corporal Duncan, near the end of Chapter 10
- Siege of Dragonspear | Fixed a crash in the music system during the Neothelid fight in the Ritual Chamber
UPDATES | BALDUR'S GATE II: ENHANCED EDITION
- Creature Sounds | Right-clicking on creatures will once again play their default sound
UPDATES | ICEWIND DALE: ENHANCED EDITION
- Boring Beetle Pincers | Fixed pincers on the druid boring beetle form
- Spirit Wolves | Fixed a crash when using Spirit Wolves by Totemic Druid
Attention Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition players! The 2.5 Update Beta for BG:EE has just been updated on Steam and Beamdog to v2.5.15.1!
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Please note that this beta update will temporarily bring the beta version of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition out of line with Siege of Dragonspear. This will be addressed in a future update.
Find out more in today's blog: http://blog.beamdog.com/2018/04/baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-25-beta.html
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Please note that this beta update will temporarily bring the beta version of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition out of line with Siege of Dragonspear. This will be addressed in a future update.
Find out more in today's blog: http://blog.beamdog.com/2018/04/baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-25-beta.html
Today's update brings a hot-fix for tooltips on Macs, as well as achievements localized for Brazilian Portuguese and a minor crash fix on the Options menu.
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
Today we're pleased to bring you v2.3, with fixes for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, and Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. Read the full release notes here, a master document that also includes the release notes from v2.0, v2.1, and v2.2!
Highlights of v2.3 include:
-Tooltips now display a stylized scroll background that dynamically resizes with the amount of text displayed
-The Candlekeep tutors’ dialogue no longer displays placeholder text when a non-English language is selected (BG:EE)
-Turkish UI strings no longer appear in English (BG:EE)
-Story Mode protections now apply to the player’s Familiar as well as party members
-multiple dialogue fixes (eliminating repeated lines, removing incorrect lines, and closing dialogue loops)
-multiple gameplay fixes and interface fixes
-multiple quest and achievement fixes
We are continuing to make improvements to the game all the time based on feedback from the community and beta testers. Hop over to the official Beamdog forums to join the conversation!
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Highlights of v2.3 include:
-Tooltips now display a stylized scroll background that dynamically resizes with the amount of text displayed
-The Candlekeep tutors’ dialogue no longer displays placeholder text when a non-English language is selected (BG:EE)
-Turkish UI strings no longer appear in English (BG:EE)
-Story Mode protections now apply to the player’s Familiar as well as party members
-multiple dialogue fixes (eliminating repeated lines, removing incorrect lines, and closing dialogue loops)
-multiple gameplay fixes and interface fixes
-multiple quest and achievement fixes
We are continuing to make improvements to the game all the time based on feedback from the community and beta testers. Hop over to the official Beamdog forums to join the conversation!
Today we're pleased to bring you v2.2, which includes 229 fixes to BG:EE and the Siege of Dragonspear expansion. The full release notes are linked below, but here are the highlights:
- Improved multiplayer stability
- New graphics options
- Fixed item description artwork
- Localized Steam Achievements for French, Polish, and Italian
- Added voice-overs for French (Baldur's Gate campaign only)
- Updated voice-overs for Polish (Baldur's Gate campaign only)
We are continuing to make improvements to the game all the time based on feedback from the community and beta testers. Hop over to the official Beamdog forums to join the conversation!
Read the full v2.2 Release Notes
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- Improved multiplayer stability
- New graphics options
- Fixed item description artwork
- Localized Steam Achievements for French, Polish, and Italian
- Added voice-overs for French (Baldur's Gate campaign only)
- Updated voice-overs for Polish (Baldur's Gate campaign only)
We are continuing to make improvements to the game all the time based on feedback from the community and beta testers. Hop over to the official Beamdog forums to join the conversation!
Read the full v2.2 Release Notes
Today we're pleased to bring you v2.1, which includes a number of fixes to BG:EE, BGII:EE, and the Siege of Dragonspear expansion. The full release notes are linked below, but here are the highlights:
- Difficulty options should now be preserved across saved games
- Using cloud saves should no longer cause game crashes in multiplayer
- Multiplayer in general should be more stable
We still have a few lingering issues to fix regarding multiplayer, as well as other areas of the game that need some more polish; those things will be addressed in one of our upcoming updates. In the meantime, enjoy this first batch of fixes!
Release Notes
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- Difficulty options should now be preserved across saved games
- Using cloud saves should no longer cause game crashes in multiplayer
- Multiplayer in general should be more stable
We still have a few lingering issues to fix regarding multiplayer, as well as other areas of the game that need some more polish; those things will be addressed in one of our upcoming updates. In the meantime, enjoy this first batch of fixes!
Release Notes
This is our biggest update ever, and it applies to both Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition. The full release notes are linked below. We have a lot of improvements planned in the coming weeks and months as well; stay tuned for more information!
Some highlights:
- New Class: The Shaman
- New Cleric Kit: The Priest of Tyr
- Class Ability Tweak: Poison Weapon now scales with levels
- Item Tweak: Stupefier +1 has been adjusted to be more in line with the game's other equipment
- Spell Tweak: Enchanted Weapon now modifies the target's existing weapons
- Items can now be placed in the Off-Hand slot while ranged and two-handed weapons are equipped
- Steam Cloud Save support has been added (Steam only)
- Achievements have been added (Steam only)
- The User Interface has been overhauled with a new system
- Dozens of modder-friendly enhancements
- Hundreds of bug fixes
Link to the Release Notes PDF
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Some highlights:
- New Class: The Shaman
- New Cleric Kit: The Priest of Tyr
- Class Ability Tweak: Poison Weapon now scales with levels
- Item Tweak: Stupefier +1 has been adjusted to be more in line with the game's other equipment
- Spell Tweak: Enchanted Weapon now modifies the target's existing weapons
- Items can now be placed in the Off-Hand slot while ranged and two-handed weapons are equipped
- Steam Cloud Save support has been added (Steam only)
- Achievements have been added (Steam only)
- The User Interface has been overhauled with a new system
- Dozens of modder-friendly enhancements
- Hundreds of bug fixes
Link to the Release Notes PDF
Current Release
Build 23882517
Uploaded Jul 08, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
Dual Core Processor
RAM
1 GB RAM
GPU
OpenGL 2.0 compatible
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Baldur.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Size
4.3 GB
Build
23882517
Password: cracked-games.org
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