Baldur’s Gate 3 reactivates PS5 cross-saves

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By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 just changed the game. I don’t mean the fact that it’s become the second most played game on Steam right now, catching up to Steam mainstays CS:GO and DOTA 2. I don’t mean how it’s enjoying incredible success without elements like a battle pass or microtransactions. And I don’t even mean how it’s a game crafted to appeal to a wide range of players across race, gender, and sexuality. Any one of these qualities alone makes Baldur’s Gate 3 an incredible game.

On Thursday, with yet another hotfix, Larian Studios blew the doors off the hinges for what a developer can do with a game with one simple sentence: “As of today, we’re also reactivating cross-saves as we near our PlayStation 5 launch.” (Cross-saves were deactivated earlier this month after the feature was apparently responsible for some players experiencing bugs with the PC launch.)

You mean I’ll be able to take my BG3 Steam save and, after creating a Larian Studios account, play it on my PlayStation 5? What devilry is this? You mean to tell me that I don’t have to remain chained to my desktop computer with my not-as-comfortable chair and can play from the comfort of my couch? That I can take myBG3 adventures with me on the road? That I can play from the comfort of my sunroom to enjoy the remaining sunny days of summer?

And I can do all that without having to restart my campaign?

Of course, cross-saves have been a thing for a while now, perhaps most notably with online multiplayer games like Overwatch 2,