16 Games Like Baldur’s Gate
Our assortment of games like Baldur’s Gate lists modern and old school fantasy RPGs where you’ll get lost in a world of adventure, choice and battles.
The Baldur's Gate franchise started in 1998 and has expanded to a wealth of titles and spin off adventures in the role playing genre that have each added new mechanics and story. Based on a ruleset of Dungeons & Dragons the core series is a party based role playing game where players recruit party members to fight alongside their hero. Combat is just one element of the franchise though with an array of memorable characters and quests across the corners of the game continent.
Set in a high fantasy world this continent is home to many different races with their own lore and abilities to utilise in your party that are further refined by class selection. With constant development through experience and equipment your party will develop from a small vulnerable group to a powerhouse capable of shaping the world through the decisions you make in the various Baldur's Gate games.
The games similar to Baldur’s Gate on this page focus on other deep role playing experiences where character customisation and strategy is at the heart of the core gameplay loop. In these titles you'll find a diverse roster of characters, quests, story, lore and combat as you explore a large open fantasy world.
Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin offers solo and co-operative gameplay that blends fantasy, strategy and role playing together within a single universe. Marking the fourth title in this franchise of titles players familiar with Divinity will find themselves within familiar territory while still being approachable to the first time Divinity player. With a living and breathing game world you can make a name for yourself and direct the course of this adventure one tactical turn at a time. Set in a game world...[Read Review]
Divine Divinity
Divine Divinity takes place in a fantasy world and offers a traditional single player RPG experience released in 2003 with its success leading to several sequels with similar gameplay. Focused on taking players through an impressive story based experience with pairs with a large game world and hack and slash combat there is a wealth of Divine Divinity content to explore. Your setting for this adventure is a dark fantasy world with players caught in the middle of a battle between good and evil. T...[Read Review]
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Origins is the first game in the Dragon Age series of role playing titles with players exploring a fictional world through a third person perspective as you customise your own hero and path through the story. Continuing the deep and diverse fantasy worlds players have come to expect from previous BioWare games the game also draws from some real world fiction media. The fiction world for your adventure is the kingdom known as Ferelden which is one of many countries in Thedas and has b...[Read Review]
Neverwinter Nights 2
Neverwinter Nights 2 continues the adventure from the first game with plenty of enhancements to provide an enhanced RPG gameplay experience. Just like the original game you’ll find Dungeons & Dragons rules and the Forgotten Realms universe at the heart of your journey ahead. Neverwinter Nights 2 is centred around the city of Neverwinter and fans of the original will recognise most of the game locations for a bit of nostalgic story and setting. This time around though Neverwinter Nights...[Read Review]
Jade Empire
Jade Empire is an action RPG originally released for Xbox and Windows in 2005 and explores an alternative setting to many of the larger action RPG franchises by drawing on the mythology of our world’s own ancient China and in turn having a focus on martial art style of combat. With the Chinese mythology at the heart of your adventure players explore a fictional although real world influenced kingdom as the last surviving Spirit Monk who is challenged with the quest to save their tutor the ...[Read Review]
The Bard’s Tale
The Bard’s Tale is a unique and quirky action role playing game that pokes fun at most of the stereotypes in fantasy RPGs and therefore offers a light adventure while retaining the joys of progression and story resolution that the genre is known for. The game was originally released in 2004 on consoles (PlayStation 2 and Xbox) but eventually found its way to Windows and Mac (2009) with iOS and Android releases in 2012 allowing fans to access this adventure once again on their mobile devices. In ...[Read Review]
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II continues where the original left off. The game was released in 2004 for the Xbox platform with a Windows release a year later. The game is a solid RPG experience but not at the same level of the original. Unlike the first game development was fronted by Obsidian Entertainment and not BioWare but the game still plays in a very similar manner with gameplay only receiving a few tweaks and changes. The game setting puts you into the thick of things and is s...[Read Review]
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is an RPG developed by BioWare that was released in 2003 and takes place in the Star Wars universe. The game was originally released for Windows and the Xbox (backwards compatible with the 360) but was re-released for iOS devices in May of 2013. The game has obvious appeals to fans of Star Wars with the game having plenty of lore and history. KOTOR takes place several thousand years before the Star Wars movies but there are still plenty of recognisa...[Read Review]
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Relive the feeling of the original Fallout games but in a fantasy setting with Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Not only does the game have an extremely obscure name its development team contained some of the brains that created Fallout. In the game players will have the opportunity to explore the fantasy world of Arcanum which is going through its own industrial revolution, creating a void between technology and magic. Many of the worlds inhabitants are accepting technology for its ef...[Read Review]
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel takes place in the apocalyptic setting that the Fallout universe is known for and opts for a tactical RPG approach ensuring plenty of strategy, customisation and story to be enjoyed. Following a fresh squad in the Brotherhood of Steel faction you’ll accept mission after mission in the wasteland as you help inhabitants and find yourself in the middle of a desperate and seemingly endless war. Similar to other additions to the Fallout universe players can...[Read Review]
Beyond Divinity
Beyond Divinity is part of the Divine Divinity series and features similar gameplay to the core role playing games in that series. The game is set approximately two decades after the original Divine Divinity and takes place in an alternate universe to the main series. Players step into the shoes of a paladin that loves nothing more than dispatching necromancers and other evil foes. During one such battle players are pulled into another universe and soul linked to a death knight, one of his most ...[Read Review]
Icewind Dale II
Icewind Dale II expands the game mechanics of the original successful role playing title allowing players once again to lead a party of customised adventurers through various trials. Released in 2002 (2 years after Icewind Dale) players will be exploring the fantasy Forgotten Realms with a band of mercenary heroes that are surrounded by a war of religion and race. With real time playing an even greater critical role in this addition to the franchise players once again have an action packed journ...[Read Review]
Wasteland 2
Set in a post-apocalyptic universe and aiming to capture the same audience as the original Fallout adventures is Wasteland 2. With a huge amount of potential customisation and enough content to ensure multiple playthroughs can take different paths it is a game that succeeds for the most part. Set 15 years after the original Wasteland the game is set in the same gloomy post nuclear holocaust game world. There are plenty of survivors scattered across this landscape with a mixture of friend, foe an...[Read Review]
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age: Inquisition continues the legacy of the Dragon Age franchise with a breathtaking game world full of locations, romance, activities and plenty of combat. Available on the new generation of consoles (Xbox One and PS4) along with the old it’s available to a large range of gamers. With the third game offering a vast range of improvements over the second game in the franchise, the Dragon Age series is back to the level of quality it is capable of achieving and places it firmly atop ...[Read Review]
The Age of Decadence
The Age of Decadence takes a different path in the turn based isometric genre with a post-apocalyptic Roman like setting that has been rarely explored by this video game genre. Drawing inspiration from the likes of the classic Fallout games but throwing a touch of light magic into the mix you’ll find a familiar skill based characters that open up multiple paths for decisions, dialogue and questing. Players explore a game world ravaged by an ancient war where dark magical powers destroyed a...[Read Review]
Dragon Age II
Dragon Age II is the second game in the hit Dragon Age series developed by BioWare and continues the fantasy adventure with a number of new features. The game was released in 2011 and is available across the big platforms including Mac, Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. While Dragon Age II is tied with the original game the stories are distant enough that players won’t have to play the original for the full experience but it is definitely recommended. In Dragon Age II you will play as Hawke w...[Read Review]