Baldur's Gate 3

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8.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11707 Ratings

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  1. Windspear
    Aug 13, 2023
    10
    A great game. Larian did an excellent job in following up BG2 with this new chapter in BG Saga. Story, game mechanics and graphucs everything is praiseworthy.
  2. Askaniz
    Aug 12, 2023
    10
    A lot of people coming here giving it negative reviews to balance ou the hype.

    So have a 10 to balance out the stupidity.
  3. Franccastell
    Sep 6, 2023
    10
    Sometimes easy, sometimes difficult, sometimes frustrating but always impressive, good story, well-built characters, lots of animations, good interactions, wonderful graphics.
  4. DnA1337
    Aug 12, 2023
    10
    60hrs in, enjoying each twist and turn so far in Act2. Brilliant combat, fantastic voice acting and the freedom that comes with every interaction is simply sublime. 100% my GOTY for 2023
  5. veeminer
    Aug 15, 2023
    10
    Great gamey I have 40 hours played and I'm at the beginning. Deep interesting gameplay, interesting story, cool characters.
  6. Belmont85
    Aug 14, 2023
    10
    Im 20+ hours in and I can safely say this is how games should always release. Its D&D perfexrly translated to a screen. Hats off to Larian Studios.
  7. Dionisio50
    Aug 21, 2023
    10
    Criticar este juego por tener un combate por turnos, es como criticar un shooter por que tienes que disparar. Esa gente no debería poder dejar su critica aquí.
  8. randomPlayer42
    Aug 12, 2023
    10
    Game is simply amazing. After years of mediocre trash releases and so called "games as a service"-disasters Larian really did it and released a complete and fun game, which takes the player serious and strives to deliver a great experience instead of boring stretched auto-generated content for monetization. I did encounter only one single bug in my 80+ hour playthrough of this giant game,Game is simply amazing. After years of mediocre trash releases and so called "games as a service"-disasters Larian really did it and released a complete and fun game, which takes the player serious and strives to deliver a great experience instead of boring stretched auto-generated content for monetization. I did encounter only one single bug in my 80+ hour playthrough of this giant game, which is basically unheard of nowadays. All in all we need to hold other game publishers responsible from now on to even reach 50 percent of this games polish in their future releases.… Expand
  9. MetaCthulhu
    Sep 5, 2023
    8
    It's a good cRPG. Nothing more, nothing less.

    Pros:
    - dialogue
    - characters
    - story arcs/quest design
    - graphics

    Cons:
    - maps that are designed to railroad you
    - atrociuous camera
    - too lengthy dungeon parts
    - there's a combat literally around every corner
  10. l4nok
    Aug 21, 2023
    10
    EU NUNCA IMAGINAVA AQUELAS FITAS! NEM EM MASS EFFECT 2 TEM !

    QUEM É FAN DE RPG E QUEM NAO É, COM BDG3 A PESSAO SE SENTE EM CASA. VOCE FAZER OQUE VC QUISER NO JOGO, LIBERDADE TOTAL. GRAFICOS EXCELENTES, UMA FOTOGRAFIA MARAVILHOSA DOS PERSONAGENS COISA DE HOLLYWOOD, A CAMPANHA É DAHORA! ZEREI A PRIMEIRA VEZ COM 72 HORAS E QUERO MAIS ! REPITO ! NEM EM MASS EFFECT 2 VC TEM TANTA    EU NUNCA IMAGINAVA AQUELAS FITAS! NEM EM MASS EFFECT 2 TEM !

    QUEM É FAN DE RPG E QUEM NAO É, COM BDG3 A PESSAO SE SENTE EM CASA.

    VOCE FAZER OQUE VC QUISER NO JOGO, LIBERDADE TOTAL.

    GRAFICOS EXCELENTES, UMA FOTOGRAFIA MARAVILHOSA DOS PERSONAGENS COISA DE HOLLYWOOD, A CAMPANHA É DAHORA! ZEREI A PRIMEIRA VEZ COM 72 HORAS E QUERO MAIS !

    REPITO ! NEM EM MASS EFFECT 2 VC TEM TANTA LIBERDADE ASSIM.

    RESPEITO DIABLO II, POE, MASS EFFECT MAS BALDURS GATE 3 POE TODOS ELES NO BOLSO.

    PARABENS AO ESTUDIO LARIAN QUE FEZ ESSA OBRA-PRIMA!    … Expand
  11. Zorada
    Aug 15, 2023
    10
    First game of this genre I have played for some 20 years. I am so glad i picked this up. It runs well on my aged pc with a 1080 card and I have suffered no graphical issues at all. The story drags you in very quickly and to me the game on normal is a fair challenge at first. The game is lovely to look at and quite indepth as it should be as a D&D game. Plenty of things to read and lots toFirst game of this genre I have played for some 20 years. I am so glad i picked this up. It runs well on my aged pc with a 1080 card and I have suffered no graphical issues at all. The story drags you in very quickly and to me the game on normal is a fair challenge at first. The game is lovely to look at and quite indepth as it should be as a D&D game. Plenty of things to read and lots to try to understand but that is I guess part of the charm. I did not pre order or indeed buy it at release but watched some gameplay and thought why not try it. I am glad I did as I see no real hard faults in this game as of yet. Oh did I mention there is NO nasty microtransactions in this fine game… Expand
  12. ocecena
    Aug 21, 2023
    10
    One of the best games I've ever played in my life. Besides the fun combat and gorgeous graphics, the writing is excellent, I'm talking Mass Effect 2 or Dragon Age Origins level.
  13. Landate
    Aug 14, 2023
    9
    Good game, but there are flaws in the release, I hope that the game will receive LKW and so on, this is a new witcher in this genre
  14. IntCel
    Aug 14, 2023
    10
    BG3 = DOS2 + BG2

    The HYPE: The game is a rare combination of many good things, but it's definitely not perfect, nothing is. - AAA budget indie funding - Passionate developers - Talented developers - Experienced developers - Honest developers - Beloved IP Normally no more than 2 of the above come together, especially with how normal it has become for developers to sell their    BG3 = DOS2 + BG2

    The HYPE:

    The game is a rare combination of many good things, but it's definitely not perfect, nothing is.
    - AAA budget indie funding
    - Passionate developers
    - Talented developers
    - Experienced developers
    - Honest developers
    - Beloved IP

    Normally no more than 2 of the above come together, especially with how normal it has become for developers to sell their souls to cunning businessmen with no interest in games or people.

    The CRITICISM:

    I see a lot of criticism that it's just "DOS3" and not BG3.

    I grew up with BG1 and BG2 and really liked them, but the combat always bothered me. These games were made to be a DnD experience on the PC but the combat in DnD is turn-based, while the combat in BG1 and BG2 is an awkward blend of real-time and pausing.
    BG3 does DnD more justice in terms of combat.

    Likewise I can see the DOS2 DNA in BG3, but it is still a DnD game through and through that centers around the DnD city of Baldur's Gate, feeling a lot more matured and true to both previous BG games as well as DnD.    … Expand
  15. Autoatlas
    Sep 7, 2023
    9
    The Story and pacing are very good for a story driven game. You could easily spend 200 hours on 1 playthrough like i did. My main criticism is the inventory management, which doesnt have enough filter or options to blend certain item groups in or out. If that would be fixed ar some point, it would be a 10/10
  16. mgungor
    Sep 6, 2023
    10
    One of the best RPG games ever. A player who doesn't like the genre will love it. 10/10
  17. Mizuiro
    Aug 26, 2023
    10
    A master piece. Only thing I don't like is the excess of humour ( too much undead NPCs in the city interacting with normal people like if this is a normal thing) and the music. The main theme of baldurs 3 is bad, not as epic as baldurs Gate 1 or baldurs Gate 2 main theme. That theme was memorable.
  18. 70Ravenz
    Aug 7, 2023
    10
    One of the least ‘casual’ games I’ve played in a long time, and I love it! I mention casual, because my other favorite game this year is Dave the Diver, about as casual and accessible as they come,

    Baldur’s Gate III is completely the opposite and it took me several hours to get a decent handle on the mechanics of the game. And what I mean is that this game is so much more than just a    One of the least ‘casual’ games I’ve played in a long time, and I love it! I mention casual, because my other favorite game this year is Dave the Diver, about as casual and accessible as they come,

    Baldur’s Gate III is completely the opposite and it took me several hours to get a decent handle on the mechanics of the game. And what I mean is that this game is so much more than just a CRPG with a good story and very advanced combat system.

    It’s an amazing story and numerous side quests, a point and click adventure, a true D&D roll playing game with dice rolls on the screen, a deep tactical strategy game and all set to an amazing score and better than average graphics.

    I am actually surprised that there are not some negative reviews only because it is not a quick play or easy to get far into in a couple of hours. I think that’s a testament to the story telling and how even though complex, players are compelled to keep playing to see what’s next.

    Great game!    … Expand
  19. jonmax11021981
    Aug 14, 2023
    10
    Excellent game, excellent history, excellent combat mode, a master piece and lesson for other companies of the industry. Congratulations Larian Studios for this excellent job. I can't stop playing.
  20. blen4k
    Aug 15, 2023
    10
    The best RPG based on a tabletop role-playing game! There is a very well-ported system of the fifth edition of D&D with a bunch of its own additions that make the game more interesting and more comfortable.
  21. Ces
    Aug 14, 2023
    10
    Great game. The deeper you go, the better it gets. There is no getting bored in area, top notch story telling, A+ graphics and it runs on everything from a GTX 1060/RX580 at 1080/High 60-100FPS locked to 4K 60 FPS locked with maxed setting on a 10GB RTX 3080 FE. I haven't been this enthralled with a game since I was a child 30 years ago. This is absolutely absurd; and I am not even a bigGreat game. The deeper you go, the better it gets. There is no getting bored in area, top notch story telling, A+ graphics and it runs on everything from a GTX 1060/RX580 at 1080/High 60-100FPS locked to 4K 60 FPS locked with maxed setting on a 10GB RTX 3080 FE. I haven't been this enthralled with a game since I was a child 30 years ago. This is absolutely absurd; and I am not even a big fan of turn based CRPG's! The writing, the options in combat and gameplay in general, this is almost like an entirely new genre. It's a CRPG, but it's also an immersive sim. There are very rarely only 2 or 3 ways to get somewhere; more like "Get there however you like. Fly spell, give it a shot? Fell like jumping down that chasm which says "Death"? Well you might die. Or you might end up in the middle of a city miles below the surface if you cast a feather fall spell first. Lol, you can stack boxes like Minecraft to get over things, or shape change into a smaller creature to get through an opening. Find the pixel perfect coordinates to manage a jump that even the devs didn't anticipate; and the game reacts. Wow does the game react. To the point where I had a character who received bonuses for not wearing any protection running around with just their weapon and otherwise naked. People were commenting. Everything from the person's courage to how the area itself is going to heck in a handbasket. How they had the time to script out, to write out every dialogue tree for all of the options we can make as players is just beyond me, as this takes CRPG choice and consequence to the next, next level. It's like Baldur's Gate 2, a new Deus Ex made by Warren Spectre himself with a team of 1000 and a decade's worth of dev time and X-Com all had their game ideas smooshed into one Genie wish and out popped Baldur's Gate 3.

    I could use all 5000 characters and still have far more to say about this game, but I'll close with: I started playing CRPG's way back at the age of 9 with Pool of Radiance. I've played every D&D release on PC/Console since. I've played most modern RPG's starting with King's Field and FF7 in the mid-late '90s. Love the first two BG games, loved Oblivion, the Mass Effect Series, KotOR, DragonAge Origins, Persona Royale, Wastelands 3, Planescape: Torment and The Witcher 3. Cyberpunk too. Had a blast. This is an entirely new beast. I thought I had freedom in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided? Not like this. Larian should be given a bonus by the gaming industry as a whole. This is literally unreal. I can only *pray* publishers will give other, smaller devs a shot at making more games like the this. The budget and the time. Just as fantastic would major publishers letting their massive studios beneath them make games that are this in depth in other genres. This is the best game I have played since The Witcher 3, perhaps the best since the original Mass Effect series...maybe the best since Baldur's Gate 2, which at the time of it's release was an absolute marvel. Heh, and Larian should license it's engine out to other devs so they can have as interactive a world as this one, because there is just no way they could have scripted all these possible decisions and had the game out in 20 years. It has to have some type of dynamic quest and story line adjustment because the game would break too many times if it didn't. Unless literally half of the studio was tasked with implementing a solution for every possible choice they could think of and then sql'ing it in...for the entire 6 years of development. There is no other way this many choices would be possible.    … Expand
  22. Nagykutya
    Aug 14, 2023
    10
    Finally! A true masterpiece amongst all the generic copy pasted wasteland of modern videogames.
    An actual rpg where choices matter. Please don’t believe the negative reviews. If you’re an rpg fan and you read through them,you realize that they’re completely irrelevant. Like people complain about the game being slow and too many dialogue options? Rate an rpg 0 because of that? If you want    Finally! A true masterpiece amongst all the generic copy pasted wasteland of modern videogames.
    An actual rpg where choices matter. Please don’t believe the negative reviews. If you’re an rpg fan and you read through them,you realize that they’re completely irrelevant. Like people complain about the game being slow and too many dialogue options? Rate an rpg 0 because of that? If you want fast paced combat with a next to nothing story,go play diablo 4. This is a true crpg masterpiece. Some bugs yes but you know that will be addressed shortly. So many developers promised and failed to deliver. Larian did it. This is it! This is the game all future rpgs will be compared to and let me tell you,it will keep the crown for a looong time based on what the coming soon lineup looks like. If you’re into action games,you can play assassins creed nepal or farcry afghanistan or whatever the next generic instalment will be. Can you not spam reviews based on too many dialogues in an rpg please? Knowledge is key    … Expand
  23. ilbolza85
    Aug 7, 2023
    10
    If i don't give a 10/10 to this game, I'll never give a 10 ever.

    This is the epitome of everything a game developer should do. Abosolute perfection and attention to every detail. Story: amazing. Characters: deep and interesting. Gameplay: simply the best game since WOTR or divinity 2. Graphics: top of the genre. Bugs: almost completely absent. This is it for me, I think even    If i don't give a 10/10 to this game, I'll never give a 10 ever.

    This is the epitome of everything a game developer should do. Abosolute perfection and attention to every detail. Story: amazing. Characters: deep and interesting. Gameplay: simply the best game since WOTR or divinity 2. Graphics: top of the genre. Bugs: almost completely absent.

    This is it for me, I think even Starfield will need to wait a couple of month after launch for me to pick it up.    … Expand
  24. AZTORG
    Aug 14, 2023
    10
    a masterpiece and a must-play game
    every 10 years you will play such a wonderful game in unique world
  25. princiliaki
    Aug 15, 2023
    10
    One of the best games i have ever played. The attention on detail is incredible and the story for far is really good.Companions are complex, maps are really large and with many hidden stuff and quests.
    Game of the year for me.As the story progressing the atmosphere is getting a lot more creepy and dark!
  26. JohnVictory
    Aug 14, 2023
    10
    The new stand to CRPG. You MUST play this masterpiece! This may be my favorite game of all time
  27. sneakypepper
    Aug 26, 2023
    10
    Best time I’ve had playing a game since I was a kid. And I have never liked turn based games before this one.
  28. anastiel
    Aug 15, 2023
    10
    As I played the baldur's gate 1 and 2, I'm loving the Baldur's gate 3, the larian hit everything, is a kind of divinity with the system of neverwinter nights 2, is fantastico, recommend to all.
  29. kingsofadam
    Aug 21, 2023
    10
    Best game ever. Played divinity 2 and genuinely thought that was one of the best games I have ever played and this genuinely tops that.
  30. Weidenwiesel
    Aug 7, 2023
    10
    Finally, after years and years of degradation in the videogame industry, comes a game that shows all these horrible other publishes how it's done.
    Thank you Larian for staying true and releasing this finished, working, feature-complete and without the usual crap that plagues other games such as additional ingame monetization and the live service roadman crap.
    This is how videogaming    Finally, after years and years of degradation in the videogame industry, comes a game that shows all these horrible other publishes how it's done.
    Thank you Larian for staying true and releasing this finished, working, feature-complete and without the usual crap that plagues other games such as additional ingame monetization and the live service roadman crap.
    This is how videogaming should be.
    This will set a new standard, whether the turdheads at Ubisoft, Blizzard and Obsidian want it or not.
    This will make all the copy-paste games from all these horrible studios that don't deserve to be in the business look like what they really are: generic bulls1t.

    Thank you Larian.
    End everyone else, buy this.
    This is a game of the century.    … Expand
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#1 Best PC Game of 2023
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#2 Most Discussed PC Game of 2023

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Metascore
96

Universal acclaim - based on 112 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 111 out of 112
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 112
  3. Negative: 0 out of 112
  1. Cubed3
    Mar 25, 2024
    90
    With a vast world to explore with varied stories and secrets to discover, Baldur's Gate 3 definitely shines. The cast is largely appealing and voice acting is top notch all-around, even if the storytelling and line delivery is varied in its pace. Character progression is somewhat weak in the opening levels but has a strong foundation for a great buildcraft experience, even if it lacks some on the fly experimentation seen in Larian's past efforts. Despite some performance woes in the later parts of the game and controller hangups, this is a journey worth taking for fans of Dungeons & Dragons or those new to the role playing field.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 22, 2024
    100
    Larian Studios, the creators of the latest installment, have gone to great lengths to make sure they didn't disgrace any of the franchise's building blocks. The love and care is evident in Baldur's Gate 3, though needless to pretend, there aren't a few bricks crumbling here and there in this monument. It's far from a perfect title, but on the whole Baldur's Gate 3 is a brilliant computer RPG that is undoubtedly not to be overlooked. [Issue#329]
  3. RPGamer
    Dec 7, 2023
    100
    Baldur’s Gate III is a title that many would not have thought possible just a few years ago. The game serves to further Larian Studios’s already strong reputation, and the studio deserves massive credit for refusing to panic, taking its time to get things right, and continuing to offer improvements even after launch at an impressive rate. Hopefully, it is able to reap the richly deserved rewards for doing so.
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