Baldur's Gate 3 Has 17,000 Ending Variations

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We already know that Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be an absolute behemoth of an RPG when it launches out of Early Access next month, one that the majority of us will spend the rest of year trying to complete. Larian Studios itself has been boasting about the game's impressive length, claiming earlier this year that the game will have over 174 hours of cinematics, which just so happens to be twice the length of the entire Game of Thrones series.

Another massive number is being thrown around now, this time all to do with the game's endings. Those familiar with the series will know Baldur's Gate 3 has many choices you can make throughout the game, each one determining certain events that take place and so on. This obviously leads to different endings depending on the decisions you make, but Larian has revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has a whopping 17,000 ending variations.

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This info comes from YouTuber FextraLife (thanks GamesRadar), who explains that Chrystal Ding, one of the game's lead writers, revealed that she's been working on Baldur's Gate 3's ending for 6 months, and that there are 17,000 different ending variations for players to experience. This was backed up by Larian's director of publishing Michael Douse, who simply tweeted "Oh no they found the 17,000 number".

Before you go shouting about how having 17,000 different endings is impossible and that it's likely just referring to minor background changes in each ending, Larian has made it very clear that this is the case. A lot of them will be very minor differences, but it still shows how massive Baldur's Gate 3 will be when 17,000 people could see something different, even if they're