Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Worth it · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.43/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 11,051
- Critics
- 78 players 14 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 46.8h
- To 100%
- 153.4h 3.3x the story
- Achievements
- 93
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 October 2021
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 228 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
32% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
84 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition ($3.59, scores 53).
More about Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
2 of the 668 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 730 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, finite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.
46.8 hours to finish it, 153 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.99 (70% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
tl;dr: This is the game that made me fall in love with RPGs, D&D and tabletop gaming, and it holds up to this day. Higher level cap, more spells, far more banter (with fewer companions) and a much more epic story that wraps up the original Bhaalspawn saga. In Baldurs Gate, a sheltered orphan forced out of Candlekeep's library reluctantly becomes the Hero of Baldur's Gate. Baldur's Gate II & Throne of Bhaal take that...
1 more review, not recommended
Graphics are pretty bad, gameplay is confusing and it is pretty glitchy. Very disappointed.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Return to a timeless RPG masterpiece. Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition brings the classic 2000 adventure back to life with thoughtful modern refinements, letting you gather your party and dive once more into a rich, choice‑driven fantasy epic.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/257350/baldur-s-gate-ii-enhanced-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.