Player voice · Baldur's Gate 3
The patterns long-haul reviewers keep returning to.
What players love
Still being surprised years in. Players a thousand hours deep report scenes and outcomes they had never triggered before.
Reviews behind this:
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"i love this game. it has become a huge comfort to me over the years, and genuinely changed the way i play games - it made me strategize much more, and made me appreciate little details. i don't think i will ever grow tired of it."
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"this game is amazing. i love dnd and the rp on this is great, ive had one full playthrough and every time i play i find new things. love larian studios"
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"I have too many hours in this game. This has been my favioute game for several years now. I even finished honour mode. It is high time I left a review. Absolute cinema - everything out of 10. Perfection."
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What frustrates them
Act 3. The complaint is strikingly consistent among people who loved the first two acts — that the city is disjointed and tedious by comparison.
Reviews behind this:
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"This is a weird one - I put over 150 hours into it (with a ton of that alt+tabbed) but I still can't recommend it. Act 3 is so bad and disjointed from the rest of the game that it feels like fanfiction."
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"The game has a lot to offer, but in it's current state, 2 years after release, if you want to roleplay as anything but what the intended path is: don't bother. For multiple hours I've been trying to tolerate many sequence breaks, buggy triggers and wonky fights, but the breaking point is how the ga…"
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"This is my third attempt to get into this game. I'm done. I want to love it. I've played the previous Baldur's Gate titles, I enjoy the genre, and I'm not looking for hand-holding. What I do want is a narrative that gives me a reason to care about what I'm doing next. BG3 mistakes "mysterious"…"
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