


Like in Larian's Divinity Original Sin 2, your primary character will start the game as either an "origin character"-developer-authored characters with unique backgrounds and special story and dialogue hooks-or make your own fully-custom character from scratch. True to the series, Baldur's Gate 3 is the classic party-based RPG affair: You'll gather and manage a squad of archetypal fantasy heroes, exploring their histories as you chase down your own main quest. Adventure! Baldur's 3 gameplay How does Baldur's Gate 3 play?įor a longer read, check out our Baldur's Gate 3 early access review (opens in new tab). We even get some co-op gameplay: Watch in delight as a tiefling throws someone off a roof in splitscreen.

And there's plenty of gameplay footage besides. Need a moody necromancer general, who's sealed a dark pact in purusit of vengeance? He's here, too. Before gracing us with an actual date for BG3's release, the trailer serves as a high-fantasy highlight reel. Larian brought this latest reveal trailer to Sony's February 2023 State of Play. In February 2023, Larian solidified those plans by announcing the official date in August. It got a firm-ish August release window announced at The Game Awards 2022, after which Larian founder Swen Vincke said he's "reasonably confident" about the timeframe.
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Baldur's Gate 3 release date What's the Baldur's Gate 3 release date?īaldur’s Gate 3 will leave Early Access for a full release on August 31, 2023. Here's everything we know about Baldur's Gate 3. Aside from the mind flayer tadpole, of course. Anything you'd want to know about Baldur's Gate 3 classes, characters, and mechanics is compiled below, so there'll be nothing holding you back once we reach the August release date. We've been writing our own Baldur's Gate 3 player handbook since its Early Access launch. If you've got a high fantasy itch, whatever class or character race you prefer, chances are there's something to scratch it here. Larian's landed on a winning combination, pairing their penchant for densely-detailed playable worlds with bespoke, D&D 5e-inspired combat and roleplaying systems. While Baldur's Gate 3 limited players to the game's first act during Early Access, that hasn't stopped it from earning acclaim. Larian is still getting a handle on what content will be available in Baldur’s Gate 3 early access, so things could change between now and then.Baldur's Gate 3 tips (opens in new tab): Start smartīaldur's Gate 3 classes (opens in new tab): Find your perfect professionīaldur's Gate 3 races (opens in new tab): Pick your favorite faceīaldur's Gate 3 companions (opens in new tab): Learn who's whoīaldur's Gate 3 builds (opens in new tab) : Optimise your class Players will have the freedom to explore various locations in the shoes of one of six classes up to a certain level cap. When I’m saying being able to play through a couple of core quest lines, I’m talking about main story paths, which take easily up to 15 to 20 hours. There’s a whole bunch of sub-quests, a whole bunch of dungeon story beats that you’ll be able to explore. …you will be able to play through a couple of, let’s call them, big quest lines that we have present in there. Vincke also commented on the topic of how much of the core campaign in Baldur’s Gate 3 will be complete for the Steam Early Access release:

The final version of the game will be “much bigger than that.” Larian founder Swen Vincke spoke with GameSpot on the RPG follow-up’s progress, saying that this first chapter will be accessible to any player that joins in when the game heads to Steam Early Access in (probably) August. However, Vincke apparently meant that the first act of this title is larger than that of the original early access release for Divinity: Original Sin 2.
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Update Note: In a previous version of this article, it seems we misinterpreted the words of Swen Vincke to mean that the first act of Baldur’s Gate 3 will be larger than the entirety of the completed Divinity: Original Sin 2.
