Baldur's Gate is a franchise of
role-playing video games set in the
Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. The game has spawned two series, known as the
Bhaalspawn Saga and the
Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the
Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extend to
Amn and
Tethyr. The Dark Alliance series was released exclusively to consoles and was critically and commercially successful. The Bhaalspawn Saga too was critically received using pausable realtime gameplay; it was credited for revitalizing the computer role-playing game (CRPG) genre.