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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II cover art

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II

Square One Games Inc. · Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2022-07-20

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ActionRPG

Franchise: Dungeons & Dragons · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 20, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 20, 2022 (Xbox One), Jul 29, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Jul 29, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Jul 29, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

78%
positive of 670 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
4.49★
PlayStation Store rating (681 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$39.99
steam price (US)
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is a 2004 hack and slash action role-playing game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment, with distribution handled by Vivendi Universal Games in North America and Avalon Interactive/Acclaim Entertainment in Europe. It is the sequel to the 2001 game Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 43 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (188 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 16,702 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 670 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $20.99 at GOG (2022-12-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14214220222026Week of 2022-07-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$20.992022-07-202026-09-192022-07-20 — best price $29.992022-11-14 — best price $23.992022-11-23 — best price $23.992022-11-29 — best price $29.992022-12-12 — best price $20.992022-12-23 — best price $20.992023-01-03 — best price $29.992023-04-28 — best price $20.992023-05-18 — best price $25.492023-06-15 — best price $29.992023-07-04 — best price $29.992023-07-17 — best price $23.992023-07-25 — best price $29.992023-09-15 — best price $23.992023-09-22 — best price $20.992023-10-25 — best price $23.992023-11-21 — best price $23.992023-12-13 — best price $23.392024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-01-10 — best price $29.992024-02-27 — best price $23.992024-03-14 — best price $23.992024-03-28 — best price $29.992024-05-23 — best price $29.992024-06-27 — best price $23.992024-07-22 — best price $29.992024-09-11 — best price $23.992024-09-19 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $23.992024-12-19 — best price $23.992025-02-10 — best price $23.992025-03-13 — best price $23.992025-05-15 — best price $23.992025-06-26 — best price $23.992025-09-29 — best price $23.992025-11-02 — best price $39.992025-12-18 — best price $27.992026-01-23 — best price $27.992026-03-19 — best price $27.992026-09-19 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4921022026-06-21 — 124 pageviews2026-06-24 — 110 pageviews2026-06-27 — 134 pageviews2026-06-30 — 155 pageviews2026-07-03 — 156 pageviews2026-07-06 — 139 pageviews2026-07-09 — 169 pageviews2026-07-12 — 151 pageviews2026-07-15 — 160 pageviews2026-07-18 — 221 pageviews2026-07-21 — 233 pageviews2026-07-24 — 157 pageviews2026-07-27 — 167 pageviews2026-07-30 — 176 pageviews2026-08-02 — 138 pageviews2026-08-05 — 115 pageviews2026-08-08 — 157 pageviews2026-08-11 — 255 pageviews2026-08-14 — 170 pageviews2026-08-17 — 170 pageviews2026-08-20 — 143 pageviews2026-08-23 — 170 pageviews2026-08-26 — 178 pageviews2026-08-29 — 151 pageviews2026-09-01 — 158 pageviews2026-09-04 — 119 pageviews2026-09-07 — 151 pageviews2026-09-10 — 111 pageviews2026-09-13 — 114 pageviews2026-09-16 — 135 pageviews2026-09-18 — 123 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
85.2%
earned "Level Up!"
8.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6854%26
PS5 (PlayStation)66022%27
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)52016%26
PS4 (PlayStation)23819%27
Switch (Nintendo)130%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DPvERPGCRPGMagicActionFantasyAdventureIsometricAction RPG

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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