Larian loves the gray areas and Baldur’s Gate 3 is all about player choice. Gamers well-versed in D&D’s spells and classes will certainly find an easier learning curve, but from my 25-ish hours in the game so far, anyone who likes to sink into a tactically-minded game or just loves roleplaying will find a ton to enjoy here.

I’m probably more into the crunch - the technical side: subclasses, modifiers, et cetera - than the average person and watching everything you’d write on a character sheet come to life in three voice-acted dimensions is very cool. I’d never played prior D&D video games, but like a lot of people, I started playing the tabletop game with friends during the pandemic. This game plays very similarly, but benefits from the combined boons of a massive budget, D&D’s rich systems and its lore. Personally, I’d only played Larian’s last game, the awkwardly-named Divinity: Original Sin II, but that game’s wildly rich, interactive world was enough for me to immediately download Baldur’s Gate 3 at launch. Ghent, Belgium-based developer Larian Studios was tapped to craft the sequel, which at the time was incredible news for anyone familiar with Larian’s stellar track record.

If any of that sounds even remotely compelling, this is a game for you.īaldur’s Gate 3 follows Baldur’s Gate 2, one of the best-loved RPGs of all-time - and one that was released over two decades ago.

No matter what you set out to do, you’ll make Faustian bargains wrapped in Sophie’s choices - and given the complexity and layered world, no two playthroughs are the same. The game offers a fascinating slice of one of D&D’s major settings, the Forgotten Realms, introducing you to gods, monsters and space-faring alien civilizations in a way that’s much more compelling than your average black and white good vs. And I mean that in the best way possible. If some roleplaying video games throw you into the deep end of the swimming pool with their ethical dilemmas, Baldur’s Gate 3 pushes you into the Mariana Trench, hands bound, and tosses a pocket knife in after you. It’s a dense roleplaying adventure that alternates between an old-school isometric view and close-up, voice-acted cut scenes, offering players a world of choice through complex cascades of cause and effect. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a Dungeons & Dragons game through and through, but you don’t need to be familiar with that world or those systems to enjoy it.

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