Baldur's Gate 3
Last updated: 2025-03-26
- Meaningful choices heavily shape the narrative.
- Compelling and well-developed companions enrich story.
- Detailed world offers immersive experience.
- Exceptional replayability due to variability.
- High-quality writing and acting enhance experience.
- Act 3: rushed, buggy, and bloated.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 92%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 5%
- Protest reviews
- 3%
- 83%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 17%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 9860
- Negative points
- 5487
- Gameplay points
- 2364
- Perf. points
- 535
- Rec. points
- 3012
- Misc points
- 685
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Meaningful choices shape narrative | The game offers extensive choices and consequences, influencing the story, relationships, and world. This creates high replayability as player decisions lead to unique outcomes and personalized narratives. The game tracks decisions and alters dialogues, story developments, and NPC behavior, leading to visible consequences in the game world. | 99% |
| Compelling, well-developed companions | The game features well-developed and engaging companions with unique backstories, personalities, and quests. These companions react to player choices, forming deep relationships or rivalries that impact the overall story. The quality of writing and voice acting for these characters is consistently praised. | 98% |
| Detailed, immersive world | The game world is highly detailed and immersive, rewarding exploration with secrets, puzzles, and environmental storytelling. The visuals are stunning, with meticulously crafted environments and character designs. This encourages players to explore every corner of the map and discover hidden content. | 98% |
| Exceptional replayability and variability | The game offers extensive replayability due to its vast content, branching storylines, and diverse character options. Players can experience the game from different perspectives, make varied choices, and uncover new aspects with each playthrough. The game has multiple main endings, branched endings, alternative routes, epilogue endings and secret endings, influenced by player decisions and relationships, increasing replayability. | 97% |
| High-quality writing and acting | The game features excellent writing, voice acting, and motion capture, bringing the characters and world to life. The narrative is immersive and engaging, with a well-designed story that spans a lengthy game time. The voice acting alone makes this game perfect and makes you feel like you are part of a big adventure. | 97% |
| Faithful D&D adaptation | The game successfully captures the essence of a tabletop D&D experience, with its rules, lore, and freedom of choice. The game features a stellar storyline, and the narrator effectively keeps the player informed and engaged. The game is a worthy successor to the Baldur's Gate saga and surpasses Divinity Original Sin 2 as the best CRPG. | 26% |
| Engaging turn-based combat, multiplayer | The game offers a fun and engaging turn-based combat system that rewards strategic thinking and creative use of the environment. The game is also enjoyable in multiplayer, allowing players to team up with friends and experience the story together. The turn-based combat is addicting, challenging, and rewarding. | 23% |
| Creative freedom, emergent gameplay | The game offers freedom to be creative in and out of combat, allowing players to 'cheese' and use objects in unexpected ways. The game provides tools for players to create their own tactics, such as hiding in bushes or using telekinesis to throw objects or enemies. The game provides immense freedom for player imagination and role-playing. | 11% |
| Extensive modding support | The game has extensive modding support, allowing players to customize their experience with new content, classes, and features. The developers have made it easy to install and manage mods, enhancing the game's replayability and longevity. The game includes a built-in mod manager with access to thousands of mods, allowing for extensive character customization. | 8% |
| Developer dedication, community support | Larian cares about the playerbase and strives to give a good experience, frequently releasing fixes and communicating their plans to offer support. The reviewer felt that the amount of work put into the game was crazy. The game was made with so much love and stays with you. | 8% |
| Unique Origin character experiences | Playing as Origin characters provides unique dialogue and internal thoughts, enhancing the story experience. The characters are well-developed with peak voice acting, traits, and personalities, making them feel like real people. The companions are beautifully written, modeled, and acted, with massive personal quests that can influence the ending. | 8% |
| Epic story, engaging characters | The story is epic and engaging, with twists and turns that keep players invested. The characters are well-developed and memorable, with top-notch voice acting. The narrative has dramatic, funny, and tense moments, with different situations depending on how you play, and the main plot makes you question how it will develop. | 6% |
| Balanced loot, ethical monetization | The balanced loot system satisfies the player both mechanically and aesthetically. The game avoids cash-grabbing tactics like loot boxes and season passes. The game is a $60 no strings attached no shops, no passes, no DLC, just one huge and complete game. | 5% |
| Strategic, engaging combat | The combat is generally fun and engaging, with multiple ways to solve quests or fights. The combat AI is challenging, and fights are varied due to vulnerabilities, immunities, elements, and enemy types. The turn-based combat is addicting, challenging, and rewarding. | 5% |