Heya! It’s me, Amazon.
Forget free delivery on all your, I don’t know, microSD cards and mass-produced pantaloons, the real benefit of Amazon Prime is the games the company hands out on its Prime Gaming (opens in new tab) page once a month. For anyone as hopelessly dedicated to 90s RPGs as me, next month’s headline offering is a doozy: Prime subscribers can pick up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition (opens in new tab) completely for free from March 2 through the end of the month.
This is, you might surmise from the name, the gussied-up 2012 re-release of the original Baldur’s Gate, which came out in 1998. Although it was controversial among fans for a while, it’s had a bunch of updates since its release, and I feel fairly confident saying it’s now the definitive way to play the old classic. In contrast to the ’90s version, it’s got a more intuitive UI, a raft of bugfixes, and will, praise be, run at modern resolutions without having to install mods.
Unhelpfully, Amazon hasn’t said what platform it’ll be for, but last month’s offering of Morrowind (you should really grab Morrowind while it’s available, by the way) was a DRM-free GOG version.
