Year: 1998

Publisher: Black Isle Studios

Developer: BioWare

Country: Canada

Genre: Role-playing

Platform: PC/Mac

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Baldur’s Gate is a series of games set in the Dungeons & Dragons realm, and it follows a modified set of rules from the tabletop role-playing game. In the games, players can choose a male or female player-character, as well as other customization options (e.g., class, race, and alignment).

The first two games in the series were remade nearly a decade after the last game was released. These were distributed as Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition (2013). These remakes introduced new content and redesigned aspects of the game (including new romance options).

LGBTQ references in this game series:

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See also QRM’s entry for this game.

Citations:

1. Baldur’s Gate. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate
2. Baldur’s Gate (series). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate_(series)
3. Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate:_Enhanced_Edition
4. Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate_II:_Enhanced_Edition
5. Dungeons and Dragons. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons