Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 12.1h 47.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.30/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 670 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
An old-school hack-and-slash action RPG awaits! Pick one of five heroes, defeat monstrous enemies with weapons and spells, loot treasure and level up in this classic D&D fantasy adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce FX5700 or better / ATI Radeon 9600 or better, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 15 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Karnage Chronicles ($24.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance ($39.99, scores 42).
More about Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
11 of the 432 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 795 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 204 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 48, 3.9 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 12.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
85% start to 20% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II delivers a straightforward action RPG experience built around dungeon exploration, real-time combat, character growth, and the constant pursuit of better equipment. Developed by Square One Games Inc. and Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment Corp., the game represents a distinctly different side of the Baldur's Gate franchise. Instead of emphasizing complicated...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
people complaing about price, meanwile this game has the same features as most modern ARPGs without the bloat. I played this in 2004, and Ièll contiue to play it while i play games. The secrets to be found, a great D&D story, deep craftingébuild options. DIablo & Poe suffer from "wide as an ocean deep as a puddle" but they look super pretty. If some inde company dropped this in 2026 people would slurp it up. BEST...
The game is a classic, but I absolutely cannot recommend it at the current price. Doubly so given the publisher's strategy of rapid and massive price increases for decades old games without significant (or any) additional development effort. The new "Interplay" is not a real publisher - they don't publish new games, they are just the corpse of Interplay being sock-puppeted by venture capitalists. Nobody who actually...
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Cite this score
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1889930/baldur-s-gate-dark-alliance-iiReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.