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Baldur's Gate – Dark Alliance – Roleplaying Game Review
Baldur's Gate – Dark Alliance is a Roleplaying/Action game from Interplay Entertainment Corp., first launched in 7th April 2023.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 820+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Baldur's Gate – Dark Alliance Stand Out
Experience the massively popular world of Baldur's Gate as never before. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance thrusts you into an epic Dungeons & Dragons adventure filled with intense action, intricate puzzles and sinister intrigue, where your mastery of cold steel and devastating spells is the only thing between you and ultimate evil.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Baldur's Gate – Dark Alliance is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th May 2023
Recent improvements include:
Cloud save and camera fixes.
Download & Availability
Baldur's Gate – Dark Alliance is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Baldur's Gate – Dark Alliance on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is exactly like we remember just better quality and a lot more fun to play. Im playing on our iPad Pro with m3 chip and its flawless and fast. The mechanics are just wow, we hope with time more older games are released this way. If so there is so much money and memories to be made.
Without Waiting for your turn!!!!! Balanced system, you dont need hours or micro buys, its a skill game, thank heavens.
These games were awesome back then Im in the minority, but release Fallout Brotherhood Of Steel as well please.
This is one of the best games we have ever played. We remember playing this on the game cube and now we have the ability to play it on our phone. It is the exact game to the very last detail. We would highly recommend this to anyone and worth the money for this game. Its the exact same game and even better now that we can play it anywhere. 10/10.
This game we played on play station 2!! Its graphics and everything is on point!! Wish they made more.
Fun game until you get to Fayed in the crypt game freezes and wont unfreeze.
Played this with our brothers and Dad back in the dizzay and its the best game ever made ever, we cant speak for the quality of this port but the game is 11/10.
We love this game but its time to put the 2nd dark alliance on mobile now.
These games are our life, please devs please put out the second game Still here! Its 2024 October and Im still waiting for the second game to come out! Please port it over.
Just as we remembered the games. The dark alliance games and champions of norath games were our favorite ps 2 games glad at least this one jumped to ios so we could enjoy it again. Love playing it with a controller.
Awesome had a great time. But now you have to make the second one. Do it.
Im playing this with a PS5 Bluetooth controller and mirrored onto our TV screen. We love it! Give us more awesome console ports like this one, please! We would LOVE to see you port Hunter: The Reckoning (and more).
The game is a perfect replica of our favorite game. We only hope they do the same for dark alliance 2! Updating to once again beg for DA2. Seriously that game is so good.
Very great make for Mobil would like to see the dark alliance 2 for mobile as well.
Super fun game and easy to pick up then lose time.
We finally got the maximum fun achievement, we didnt know that it was fully maxing out a character rather than just one stat but that achievement is done! Im completing the game on extreme and Drizzt right now to see if we can find one of the 3 hidden achievements or Artemis Entreri, Also pretty sure tough little guy is broken. And, are the 3 hidden achievements actual achievements or are they just there? Im dying to find out because Im trying to complete all the achievements (20/28 so far) ok thats it for now! Bye.
Port is perfect, worth the $10. Buy it.
This was an amazing revisit to a game we played a ton as a kid. A challenging/fun dungeon crawler with a great story. We enjoy that the game is more linear with direction and its great to kill 30 minutes to an hour with the frequent save spots. It has a simple story, one you would think for a dungeon crawler game. **To Developer – It seems the achievements may not be working. Just beat the game with human archer on our first play through – These achievements did not pop: – Fully stocked quiver (we had 1006 arrows in inventory) – Defeat Karne – Dragon Down – Maximum Fun – Detected Magic – Rock Collector Will update if on 2nd playthrough pops.
When our cousin and we were growing up this was our favorite game and honestly nothing has scratched that itch since, the nostalgia this game brings is exactly what we needed. The game is exactly how we remember it and honestly doesnt feel aged to us at all. Also we are both shocked and ecstatic that this is on an iPhone now, its wild to us but thats technology. Ive been searching for a phone game we could love and this is it, its such a great game and it has been brought to iOS well, dont listen to the peoples complaints most are unfounded, the aiming in this game was never great and its the same as it was before plus theres a skill that shows line of fire for arrows and its easy to get use to. Also someone complained about the obstacles in the thieves guild being too hard or incompatible to do on a phone game cant remember how it was worded but we just finished those said obstacles and did them on our first try, honestly they could have been harder lol but its a challenging game you wont feel like youre immortal in it which is great. All in all this game is amazing even on iPhone Im so impressed and we hope they bring dark alliance 2 over as well Id never need another phone game again.
So does it just auto dump your stat points into Str for you or something? We dont think we got to choose, and we doubt Id pick str on a sorc Please let us know if im just missing a screen or flat out clueless. Thx. We want to play more but we get bummed our charas are all being built stupidly.
So does it just auto dump your stat points into Str for you or something? We dont think we got to choose, and we doubt Id pick str on a sorc.
The touch controls could be better but with a pad or something this is a real banger and for a good price too.
On iPad the NPC dialog is not captioned, or at least the captions arent working. The other thing that made playing difficult is that the control size option did nothing to change the size of the touch controls, which were tiny and close together. Larger controls and more customizable controls would make playing more enjoyable.
Love the game, brings back memories and its an excellent port so far with backbone controller. Our only issue is it claims their is cloud save support but when we go from our iPhone to IPad there is no load game files. Kind of a bummer, would give 5 stars if we can resolve this issue. For the record, both devices are fully up to date and synced to the same iCloud account and internet network.
Great game, final act didnt feel right though. They just increase the drop rate by a seemingly infinite amount to prepare you for the boss, then you dont get to sell any of the amazing weapons you found because the games over. We know its an old game but it just feels like it started strong then they stopped putting their heart into it and rushed the rest of the game out. No side quests or puzzles after act 1, and the act 1 puzzles were very simple leading you to believe there will be more and theyll get more difficult.
We really loved the gameplay, and its a really well made port. Theres the right amount of challenge to this game that doesnt feel too easy or too hard, and it comes with an extreme difficulty as well. However there are a few flaws such as not being able to respec points, damage numbers being displayed incorrectly, and the worst of all, the auto screen rotation. Sometimes it really gets frustrating when the game forces u to look a certain direction while in combat. Aside from this, baldurs gate dark alliance is one of the best rpgs u can play on mobile.
Good game otherwise but please fix.
We loved the original version. Our siblings and we played this and the second one so much so we really enjoy having it on our phone. Little bit of a curve to get used to. Only thing we hate is the camera automatically moves a ton for us and its super irritating, especially mid battle. But still fun.
This is a great port, so good that we hope the other three games on the same engine are ported. Champions.
If you are a true BG fan, prepare to be disappointed because this feels more like Diablo. Imagine our surprise when we found out our mage class elf bears a chain mail, iron shield, and long sword, as well as a bow, and primarily uses weapons to fight while occasionally casting a spell. There is no strategy, just hack and smash. While this could still be fun, the game controls are atrocious on the phone – you cannot aim , your arrows and spells go everywhere and you end up flailing around like an NPC hoping to land a hit by chance. Then there is the whole jumping part – so unnecessary. We recommend including an auto-aim option for those who want to play on a phone.
The game is pretty good but the button lay out is not user friendly.. We should be able to shield with one hand and heal with the others but all the actions are jumbled to one side taking away the old console feel.
Every time we reach 4 levels, it doesnt let us choose attribute points, it says move the cursor but theres none in touch screen, And it automatically chooses strength without letting us choose other attributes.
This is a great game and very nostalgic. The port is, however, uninspired. Its good enough to sell the game, but it doesnt seem like much effort was put into creating an enjoyable experience. That said, Ive beaten the game on every difficulty (+extreme) and with every character (-Drizz) and then continue to play some casual runs. We think a few issues could easily be fixed to improve sales and ratings for positive ROI and a port you can be proud of. Easily 5 stars w/ a few tweaks. Issues: 1) Character building is broken – all stats forced to go into strength b/c the buttons glitch 2) Camera angle reset shortcut adds no value but adds frustration and could easily be locked or require 4 instead of 2 accidental clicks when we fat-thumb a button 3) Zoom distance should be adjustable for our iPhone SEs tiny screen 4) Gauntlet mode is seemingly impossible and Ive read PS2 guides from GameFAQs to no availnot sure how it got tweaked or if it did (had to import a character to beat it) Playing on iPhone SE 2nd gen. W/ touch controls. App and phone are up to date.
The two player option is greyed out. We love this game and would like to play with our dad like we use to back In the day.
This is a really nice game although there is a high frustration factor with the 360 spin mentioned by previous users. This is really lame. Get rid of it.
Love this game but too difficult to play on mobile. Jump button is terrible on the screen and we Died 100 times trying to jump through traps until we got frustrated and just deleted the game. Might work with a controller idk but waste of money if youre trying to play on a screen.
Definitely has potential. We do, however, wish that it had a story mode like the original games from Bethesda. Im not a pro at playing these types of games so without an easy mode its unplayable for us. PLEASE add in story mode.
This game is great and really fun, but there is a bug that only lets you put points into strength. PLEASE FIX THIS.
Please fix! We cant move to the next phase of the game! We have the iPad 10 and theres a bug where you cant exit the cut scene in the dungeon if skeletons! Its when you talk to the priest and he tells you to find the 3 urns! Please fix it so we can continue! Thank you.
Which is too bad as we kind of liked the story. Got to the first boss proper (in thieves guild) and he is just ridiculously hard. Blocking is necessary but clumsy and very position dependent. Might be more fun with a controller but we're calling it despite spending $10 on it, after playing it for maybe 4 hours and soooo many deaths.
In need for back one controller update other than that nostalgia at its finest.
For when the game was made, it has gotten some upgrades to graphics and faster functionality in our perspective. Loved the game as a kid and has Britten back key memories for us in our mid-20s. 5stars best hack and slash there ever was in our opinion.
If youre going to play this on your phone get a controller. We there than that this game is amazing.
We wish it had better controler support.
What an excellent port to mobile! Hopefully there are plans to port the sequel as well. Please fix the issue where you can't choose what stat to level, unable to move the cursor off of strength using touch controls.
We like the controller support but it is a bit buggy like we have to use touch to pick up items and things. Please fix.
Everyone has had their say on game control issues, and yes, the bow/arrow aiming is challenging but we think the other item to be addressed is the fact that the game is so short. We never played this as a console game, but we finished this with ease using the iPad controls, not a joystick. Addons? DC? Ill play again with a sorcerer and see how that goes.
Love this game. Controller support would be amazing.
We have found a major bugs with two player mode. 1) the second player does not consistently increase levels even though the player has more than enough experience 2) the 2nd player cant bring up inventory 3) you cant change which player is 1st Features request: Player two players via controllers on a iPad is really annoying. Can you please add multiplayer support over the network instead ? The choices of weapons in the shops is poor and doesnt appear to change. That is not how similar games work.
Im very glad this game came to iOS. We havent had any issues with gameplay, the only grievance we have is when playing with a DualShock 4 it does not give the square,cross,triangle,circle prompts. Just the ABXY.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 2,147.10 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Interplay Entertainment Corp.]()
Last updated: 17th May 2023 | Genre: Roleplaying, Action | Developer: Interplay Entertainment Corp.