Baldur’s Gate 3 Party Size Mod Lets You Double the Fun; Game Breaks 530K Steam Concurrent Peak

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Baldur's Gate 3 is making as big a splash as many of us had anticipated and possibly even more. Yesterday, the game had broken 450K concurrent players on Steam. Today, it has already broken a new peak record with 532K players according to SteamDB, and it's worth noting Baldur's Gate 3 is also available on GOG.com (where it is DRM-free), whose figures are obviously not counted here.

This already ranks Baldur's Gate 3 as the #11th game in Steam's all-time concurrent player peak chart, behind only the likes of PUBG, CS: GO, Lost Ark, Dota 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, New World, Hogwarts Legacy, Goose Goose Duck, and Apex Legends. Some of those games are free-to-play, which is an undeniable boon when it comes to ranking in these charts. The comparison with other cRPGs is even rosier, as it pits Baldur's Gate 3 against Larian's previous game (Divinity: Original Sin 2) which only ever reached 93.7K concurrent players on Steam, nearly a sixth of BG3.

Other contenders are far lower in the category. Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity stopped at 41.9K, and inXile's Wasteland 3 peaked at 24.5K, just above Shadowrun Returns from Harebrained Schemes (24.3K). Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire barely tops Owlcat Games' Pathfinder: Kingmaker (22.7K vs. 22.6K), with Divinity: Original Sin stuck at 22K flat. Everything else registered below 20K concurrent players. While it's too early to say definitively, it looks like Larian may have found their answer on whether there would be a sizable market for a triple-A cRPG, arguably a first on this scale.

All of this is great news for the future of the genre and for Larian projects specifically, but most PC gamers are right now diving into dungeons and talking their way into the good graces of all