The brilliance of Baldur’s Gate 3 is that it takes a seemingly linear story and makes it damn near infinite. On the surface, it’s a game about a player recruiting friends to try and get a parasite out of their brain. But each and every decision the player makes beyond that sends massive ripples across the game. Every choice branches off on a new path, then a new path, and by the end, you realize you can play through the game over and over and never experience the exact same things twice.
Larian Studios officially released Baldur’s Gate 3 two years ago today, August 4, and to celebrate its birthday, the company just released a mountain of incredibly specific, nerdy, and weird stats. (Much as it did last year.) One, for example, is that once players were allowed to modify the game in their own ways, over 250,000 people downloaded a mod that allowed one of the key figures in your party, Withers, to have large, natural breasts. Why? Who cares! It just made the game more fun for people when they talked to Withers to see that Withers had a massive rack.
You can see all the birthday stats on this blog page, but here are a few others.
- Over 8,500 mods have been uploaded to the game, which have subsequently been downloaded and applied about 265 million times. This includes the 250,000 fans of Withers’ chest.
- 2.3% of players were able to play through the game and experience each and every class without asking the character that easily changes your class. Which, again, is Withers.
- In a nice, non-Withers fact, just over 2% of players figured out how to win a battle while being drunk in the game. There’s no word on how many people won battles while drunk in their living rooms.
- 8.2% of players figured out that you could pick up your enemy and throw them at another enemy.
- Just under 600 people were able to adopt a child with Wyll.
- And just under 500,000 people played Baldur’s Gate 3 on multiple platforms.
There are many, many more stats too if you head over to this post. Writing about it makes me want to dive back into my own game, where I have about 50 save points that can take me into new directions with my player, a short, stocky, grey-haired rogue. Then you remember that’s just a molecule in the mountain of the game, considering all the different characters you can create.
What are your best Baldur’s Gate 3 memories? Are you one of the lucky 250,000? Let us know below.
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