Everyone loves Baldur’s gate3 and with good reason. But if you want a different love letter to the originals, I highly recommend pillars of eternity: …steampowered.com/…/Pillars_of_Eternity_II_Deadfi…
It’s a big party based RPG with an original setting and system. Good story. Great characters. Many interesting classes. Sheds a lot of dnd-isms, but you can still see the heritage.
I like the second more than the first, but they’re both good. The second switched to per-encounter powers instead of per-rest, so you don’t need to camp or hit the inn nearly so often.
Also I really want them to make a third game. Maybe if more people buy it they will!