Review: Baldur’s Gate 3
Turning tabletop role-playing into a digital experience feels like an eternal conundrum. Capturing the imagination space of the tabletop and transforming it into a single-player, highly produced and catered experience is a dream that can seem a little unattainable. But Baldur’s Gate 3 gets pretty damn close.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the third game in a series of Dungeons & Dragons RPGs originally made by BioWare; but just as importantly, it’s the latest game from Larian Studios, hot off a winning streak with Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2 .
As has already been discussed to death, plenty of individual factors account for Baldur’s Gate 3 success: the established development history of Larian, years of relative freedom in development and Early Access, the surging popularity of tabletop role-playing games, and the hunger for both a crunchy CRPG and BioWare-esque degree of production.
Yet Baldur’s Gate 3 , for me, exceeds those cravings. It’s massive but focused. There’s choices big and small, affecting stories in equal measure. Companions who stand alongside genre bests, combat encounters that feel challenging and memorable, and a world that’s as much its own setting as it is built on the lengthy lore of D&D . Baldur’s Gate 3 is, in a banner year for role-playing games, simply one of the best RPGs you can play right now.
Baldur’s Gate 3 (PC)
Developer: Larian Studios
Publisher: Larian Studios
Released: August 3, 2023
MSRP: $59.99
Larian wastes little time in introducing the key driver of Baldur’s Gate 3 ’s story. You, among many denizens of Faerun, have been abducted by mind flayers and infected with a tadpole. This ticking time-bomb sits on your brain, waiting to turn you into a tentacled illithid
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