About Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 is Larian's D&D-based RPG, a turn-based epic built on the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition ruleset. Players lead a party of origin characters and companions from the Nautiloid to the heart of the Absolute's plot, with-reactive storytelling, systemic encounters and a rules-faithful simulation of spells, surfaces and dice. ItsOrigin companions, romance, honour mode and comprehensive co-op earned it Game of the Year honours.
- • Full D&D 5e turn-based ruleset
- • Deeply reactive companion storylines
- • Origin character playthroughs
- • Three-act branching campaign
- • Online and split-screen co-op
- • Honour Mode difficulty
- • Steam Achievements
- • Full controller support
- • Steam Trading Cards
- • Steam Cloud
- • Remote Play Together
- • Family Sharing
Storyline
Baldur's Gate 3 shares its Dungeons and Dragons setting, called the Forgotten Realms, with previous games in the franchise. BG3 and its predecessors take place on the continent of Faerûn, primarily near or inside the namesake city of Baldur's Gate. BG3 occurs over 100 years after the events of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) and shortly after the events of the D&D tie-in adventure, Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus (2019). The game features monsters from the Forgotten Realms, including owlbears, gnolls, and mind flayers. The game's first act has no designated tutorial, but certain resources and encounters throughout the act are deliberately constructed to guide the player. The act is primarily set around a mind flayer ship wreckage. Players have access to several locations, including a druids' grove, goblin camp, and a monastery set against a mountain pass. Writer Ali Jones characterises the first act as "fairytale backdrop", and IGN's Leana Hafer said it was "mostly idyllic wilderness". Eight of the game's ten companions are introduced in act one, with six recruitable near the start. The Underdark is a large subterranean area accessible through multiple locations; each entrance leads to unique environments. Act one ends when players traverse the mountain pass or Underdark to reach act two's setting. In act two, players traverse the Shadow Cursed lands to reach Moonrise Towers, an oppressive and dark environment. Only one companion is introduced in act two. Locations explored include the Last Light Inn and the Gauntlet of Shar. The third and final act is primarily set in the dense city environment of Baldur's Gate, but with some areas accessible outside of the city, like a visiting circus and the shoreline. The city is the location of the tenth and final recruitable companion.
Gameplay
Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game, and can be played in single-player or multiplayer. It has a free-floating camera, with players able to adjust the perspective from top-down isometric to third person. Based on the fifth edition rules of the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D 5e), several mechanics are identical between the two. A major feature is that outcomes are decided by rolling a twenty-sided die (d20). Some rolls occur with "advantage" or "disadvantage", meaning two d20s are rolled and the player receives the best or worst result, respectively. The game includes support for modding, but using them disables achievements. In character creation, the player selects a class, species, and backstory. If the selected class uses magic, they will also choose their starting spells. Characters level up by collecting experience points by several means—examples include exploration, combat, and solving puzzles. Levelling up provides access to new class features. The maximum player level of Baldur's Gate 3 is level 12; in the tabletop game, the limit is level 20. Available at certain level intervals are feats. These diversify or specialise a character's style of play. With each feat, players choose a new ability or increase their stats, which are called abilities. After levelling up, players can also choose to place a level into a different class, known as multiclassing.
Multiplayer
Supports: Co-op, Remote Play Together.
Offline play
Full single-player campaign available offline on PC.
- Developer
- Larian Studios
- Publisher
- Larian Studios
- Release
- 3 Aug 2023
- Price
- Paid
- Modes
- single-player, co-op, online, multiplayer
More details
- Metacritic score
- 96
- Steam achievements
- 54 achievements
Screenshots
System requirements
PC — minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM)
- Storage
- 150 GB available space
PC — recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel i7 8700K / AMD r5 3600
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580 (8GB+ of VRAM)
- Storage
- 150 GB available space
