Baldur’s Gate 3 Topped 5.2 Million Units Sold on Steam, Says Belgian Embassy

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We've known Baldur's Gate 3 was selling extremely well on Steam since day one. After all, Larian's triple-A cRPG broke various concurrency records on Valve's platform, reaching rank #9 on Steam's all-time concurrent player chart with a peak of 814K users. Last Sunday, the game registered a new peak of 875K concurrent users, nearly matching the eighth game on that chart (Hogwarts Legacy, another massive success in this year of records, which peaked at 879K on Steam).

Earlier this week, Circana (NPD) analyst Mat Piscatella also shared some incredible engagement numbers, showing that Baldur's Gate 3 players log into the game for an average of more than five hours each day.

Now, however, we've got a concrete figure from a reputable albeit unlikely source. The Belgian Embassy congratulated Larian (a studio founded and headquartered in Ghent, even though they also have offices in Barcelona, Dublin, Guildford, Kuala Lumpur, and Quebec) with a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.

In the post, the Belgian Embassy claims that Baldur's Gate 3 has already sold over 5.2 million units on Steam alone. The game is also available on GOG, though CD Projekt RED's own digital store is far smaller than Steam, so GOG's sales are probably just a fraction in comparison.

A few days before the August 3rd release, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke confirmed that over 2.5 million digital copies of the game had already been sold during the lengthy early access period. We can therefore deduce that Baldur's Gate 3 sold around 2.7 million units in the span of two weeks

It's an unprecedented success for a cRPG, a genre that not long ago had essentially vanished from the mainstream. It was only the advent of Kickstarter and other crowdfunding