Baldurs Gate
Dungeons Dragons videogame
Baldur's Gate is a landmark fantasy role-playing video game series set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, first released in 1998.
The games revived the genre and established conventions for party-based computer RPGs.
The title refers to a fictional city on the Sword Coast: I spent hundreds of hours on Baldur's Gate back in college.
Baldur's Gate 3, released in 2023, became a critical and commercial phenomenon.
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