Baldur’s Gate 3 on PS5 is a great excuse to restart Baldur’s Gate 3

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Once upon a time, the dream of a role-playing game like Baldur’s Gate 3 on consoles was exactly that: a dream. Really meaty games like, well, Baldur’s Gate 2 were effectively in a genre defined by their incompatibility with consoles, the so-called CRPG, or computer role-playing game. Those days are gone. We now bask in the glow of a new era full of former CRPG expats migrating to consoles, and the PlayStation 5 version of Baldur’s Gate 3 is the latest and greatest of them. Finally, you can flirt your way across Faerûn from your living room.

Baldur’s Gate 3 converts wonderfully to the PS5. To some, this won’t be terribly surprising. Larian Studios is quite good at this, as the developer has shown with console ports of Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel. Baldur’s Gate 3 does a similarly fantastic job of translating the complex workings of a CRPG to a gamepad. The experience is effectively the same as it is when you connect a gamepad to the Windows PC version — hotbars are swapped for radial menus, and a few new features, like the ability to search multiple objects at once when you hold down the X button, provide even more convenience.

Players who started Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC can pick up their game on PS5 if they sign up for a Larian account and link their PlayStation and PC credentials, and once I did that minor clerical work, every save I made afterward synced automatically. The service doesn’t sync all your saves — just the ones you make after turning on the feature in the game menu. This is a little bit more fiddly than you might expect, but it’s ultimately fine; you just might have to do a bit of save file spelunking, depending on how much you want to carry over when you get started. Afterward, though? Going back