Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is an action role-playing game whose console versions were well regarded for bringing real-time, hack-and-slash dungeon crawling to the Baldur's Gate name. This entry is the Game Boy Advance conversion, published by Destination Software in the early 2000s, and it is a distinct, scaled-down take rather than a straight copy of the console original.

The series' appeal lies in its blend of Dungeons and Dragons trappings with fast, loot-driven combat, a lighter and more immediate style than the sprawling, party-based Baldur's Gate strategy RPGs it shares a name with.