Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
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- Released
- 2023
- Developer
- Larian Studios
- Platforms
- 1 systems
- Critics
- 96
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 150 GB
What is Baldur's Gate 3?
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 2 August 2023 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Larian Studios |
| Publisher | Larian Studios |
| Platforms | PC |
| Genres | Role-Playing, Strategy |
| Languages | 15 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata , seeded TBA. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Baldur's Gate 3 received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
- Color Alternatives
- Subtitle Options
- Camera Comfort
Hearing
- Custom Volume Controls
- Stereo Sound
- Surround Sound
Input
- Full controller support
- Playable without Timed Input
Difficulty
- Adjustable Difficulty
- Save Anytime
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | Yes |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Yes |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 150 GB |
| Add-on content | 2 DLC listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Content descriptors
- Some nudity or sexual content
- Frequent violence or gore
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Baldur's Gate 3 worth it?
97% of 855,414 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. It costs $59.99 on Steam, and critics score it 96/100. About 54,771 people were playing at once when we last checked, so it is still active.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Baldur's Gate 3? How long to beat it
Total play time for Baldur's Gate 3 is about 181.3 hours to do everything, and around 73.1 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 73.1h | 674 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 117.1h | 3,197 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 181.3h | 621 |
At its current price of $59.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.82 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Baldur's Gate 3 system requirements
The minimum requirements from Baldur's Gate 3's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 8 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite |
| Graphics | Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of · runs on a low-end GPU |
| Storage | 150 GB (more games this size) |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
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Where Baldur's Gate 3 sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Is Baldur's Gate 3 still active? Players right now
Baldur's Gate 3 has a top-tier live audience: 54,771 people were playing at once when we last read Steam on 19 October 2026. This is a snapshot, not a live counter, and it is a recent concurrent reading rather than an all-time record. For what is trending across the catalogue right now, see the pulse.
How many people own Baldur's Gate 3
This is an estimate, not a sales figure, and the two are not interchangeable. SteamSpy samples public profiles and publishes a range; the range here spans a factor of 2.5, and that width is the honest part of it. We show both ends rather than a midpoint, because a midpoint would look like a measurement.
Steam only. Console and storefront sales are not counted, so a game that sold heavily elsewhere reads low here. Read on 19 October 2026. Where a publisher has announced a real unit figure, that appears separately and carries its source.
Estimated sales for Baldur's Gate 3
These are estimates, not reported figures. Larian Studios has not published unit sales for Baldur's Gate 3, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 855,414 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $59.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
| SteamSpy owner estimate | 20M–50M, a different measure, see below |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Larian Studios publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Baldur's Gate 3 price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $59.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Baldur's Gate 3 updates & patch notes
Pulled from Baldur's Gate 3's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- Baldur's Gate 3's Mizora becomes a fully-fledged companion thanks to a new mod, just in case you fancy adding a calculating cambion to your crew
- If you're desperate for more Baldur's Gate 3, here's a 6-hour mini-campaign all about Astarion with 4 different endings and 6 new companions
- RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them
- BioWare veteran says Baldur's Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn't try to be too much like Baldur's Gate 2
- Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
- Baldur's Gate 3's official livestream gets banned on YouTube and TikTok. Why? "Demon sex."
What readers say about Baldur's Gate 3
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 299 most recent negative Steam reviews of Baldur's Gate 3 on 14 September 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes12 of 299 (4%)
Non of the things i found online worked to fix any of this AND the amount of threads about people crashing in ways other than my problem in act 3 made even findig information hard.
Steam review, 19 July 2026 · 217 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpfulgame buggy and crash especially after act 1
Steam review, 7 July 2026 · 31 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful
A further 15 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Games like Baldur's Gate 3
24 games overlap with Baldur's Gate 3 on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Solasta: Crown of the Magister, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader.
Part of the Baldur's Gate series
Baldur's Gate 3 is one of 4 Baldur's Gate games we track. See the whole series ranked by the GamingPickz Score, plotted on the grid, and listed in release order:
Baldur's Gate 3 head to head
See Baldur's Gate 3 compared side by side, on score, price, specs and more:
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Common questions about Baldur's Gate 3
What platforms is Baldur's Gate 3 on?
Baldur's Gate 3 is available on PC. It first released in 2023.
How much does Baldur's Gate 3 cost?
$59.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Baldur's Gate 3?
97% of 855,414 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
What is the Metacritic score for Baldur's Gate 3?
96 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.
Does Baldur's Gate 3 work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Baldur's Gate 3 as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the Baldur's Gate 3 download?
150 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Baldur's Gate 3?
Baldur's Gate 3 was developed by Larian Studios and published by Larian Studios.
Is Baldur's Gate 3 worth it in 2026?
97% of 855,414 Steam reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive), and it is $59.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Baldur's Gate 3 dead?
No. About 54,771 people were in-game at once when we last read Steam's concurrent-player figure. Peak activity is higher; this is a recent snapshot, not the all-time peak.
Is Baldur's Gate 3 on sale?
Not at the moment. Baldur's Gate 3 is at its $59.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.