While everyone was glued to the GTA 6 info drop this week, Beamdog quietly shipped something that deserves its own spotlight: patch 2.7 for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition, and Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition. These are games from the early 2000s, with Enhanced Editions that launched back in 2012 and 2013, and they just got a meaningful update in 2026. That's 14 years of continued support, which puts a lot of modern live-service games to shame.
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For fans of Baldur's Gate 3 who haven't played the originals, this is a genuinely good moment to reconsider. The Enhanced Editions are the definitive way to experience the Infinity Engine classics that inspired Larian's modern masterpiece, and patch 2.7 makes them considerably easier to play on current hardware.
What the 2.7 patch actually fixes
The two headlining changes are Steam cloud save integration and native Apple Silicon support, and both address long-standing friction points.
Cloud saves on Steam now behave the way every other game on the platform handles them: you toggle them on or off through the Steam client's own settings, not buried inside the in-game gameplay menu. The old system was genuinely backwards. The Steam client toggle was effectively decorative, with the actual control sitting inside the game itself. That's fixed now, and GOG Galaxy cloud saves have also been corrected to work properly.
Apple Silicon support means Baldur's Gate: EE, BG2: EE, and Icewind Dale: EE now run natively on Apple's M-series chips, rather than relying on Rosetta 2 translation. Apple has signaled it plans to phase out Rosetta 2 for most software, so this update future-proofs the games for Mac players. Native ARM execution also means better battery life on MacBook hardware, which matters if you're 40 hours deep into a playthrough of Shadows of Amn.
New languages, mobile fixes, and modding support
The patch goes well beyond those two headline features. Beamdog added a batch of community-translated languages across the three games: Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear picks up Chinese (Simplified), Korean, and Russian; BG2: EE adds Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, and Ukrainian; Icewind Dale gains Hungarian and Japanese. That's a meaningful expansion of the player base that can access these games in their native language.
Mobile players get several targeted fixes. The virtual keyboard on iOS and Android now shifts the UI so the text cursor stays visible while typing, which sounds minor until you've lost your cursor mid-input and started tapping randomly. Android foldable device support is properly sorted, with correct UI scaling and touch input on tall-aspect and fold-out screens. iOS modding is now supported, with the game storing data in a location visible to standard file browsers, and Android modding gets the same treatment after a permissions bug that had been blocking file browser access.
There's also a low-level indexing fix: an off-by-one error in rebuilt BIF files that was affecting some community modding tools has been resolved. The modding community around these games is still active after more than two decades, so that one matters more than it might look.
Why this matters for the Baldur's Gate series right now
Here's the thing: patch 2.7 entered beta back in February, so it's been in testing for several months before this full rollout. The fact that Beamdog is still iterating on 14-year-old Enhanced Editions, adding platform support and localization, signals genuine long-term commitment to keeping these games accessible.
The timing also lands well for anyone who played Baldur's Gate 3 and wants to go back to the source material. BG3's success brought a wave of new players to the franchise, many of whom have never touched the originals. Patch 2.7 removes several of the technical barriers that made those older games feel dated on modern setups, particularly for Mac and mobile players.
The full patch is live now across Steam, GOG, iOS, and Android. If you've been sitting on a backlog playthrough of Baldur's Gate: EE or BG2: EE, the timing is good. For players new to the series entirely, our beginner's guide to Baldur's Gate 3 is a solid place to get your footing before deciding how far back into the franchise you want to go.
