Baldur's Gate

Developer	BioWare
Publisher	Interplay
Platforms	Original PC (Microsoft Windows) • Mac OS Classic • Dreamcast (cancelled) • PlayStation (cancelled) Enhanced Edition PC (Microsoft Windows) • Mac OS X / macOS • Linux • iOS • Android • PlayStation 4 • Xbox One • Nintendo Switch
Date	Windows 🇺🇸 21 December 1998 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 January 1999 🇯🇵 30 January 1999 Macintosh 🇺🇸 31 July 2000
Links	Wikipedia MobyGames
Related	Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate is a computer role-playing game set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. It was the first released game to employ BioWare's Infinity Engine. It was both critically and commercially successful, and is credited for reviving the CRPG genre from a fallow period.

Histories

• The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur’s Gate — The Digital Antiquarian, by Jimmy Maher
• Baldur's Gate — episode 233 of They Create Worlds podcast, by Alex Smith & Jeffrey Daum

Dreamcast (cancelled)

A Sega Dreamcast version was announced, planned for release in May 2000. Sega themselves were handling porting duties, and online multiplayer was supported. It was cancelled around August 2000.

PlayStation (cancelled)

A PS1 version was in development. An incomplete but fully playable build, dated 4th October 2000, was released by Hidden Palace on 24th December 2009.

• Baldur's Gate (Oct 4, 2000 prototype) — Hidden Palace
• Announcement of the prototype release — Hidden Palace
• Discussion of the release on the Lost Levels forums
• Footage of the PS1 version — uploaded by PtoPOnline
• Discussion on NeoGAF forums, 2009
• Discussion on Resetera forums, 2019