Baldur's Gate 3 Choices that reshape the world

Something alien lives inside your head, pulling you toward evil while feeding you new abilities the deeper it takes hold. You decide what that means: resist the corruption and turn it against itself, or embrace it and become evil. Around you, war builds toward Baldur's Gate, a mind flayer invasion looms, and you are caught between devils, deities and otherworldly forces. The adventure is built for a party of heroes in the Forgotten Realms, shaped by fellowship, betrayal and sacrifice. The story earns strong praise. The first hours do not land for everyone, so give it time if it feels slow at first.

Your companions travel with you, and they keep their own moral compass. They notice what you do, react to your choices, and form bonds or rivalries as the journey wears on. Each one feels like a real person with views of their own rather than a helper following orders. That closeness is why players grow attached to the party and keep thinking about the story long after the credits roll.

There is rarely one right answer here. You can solve things in many ways: sneak around trouble, climb above it, jump across, shove someone, or pick up a loose object and throw it into the middle of things. Party members can press an attack together or split up to follow their own quests, and combat runs on D&D 5e rules with three difficulty settings to set the challenge. The world reacts to what you try, which leads to funny, absurd situations you will want to retell.

Character creation offers a dozen classes and eleven races drawn from the core rulebook, with 46 subclasses and 31 subraces to shape the result. You can also play as one of seven hand-crafted Origin heroes and recruit the others, or make the Dark Urge, a customisable Origin with its own mechanics and story. The graphics are beautiful, the audio is excellent, and over 174 hours of cinematics follow your choices so your version of the journey looks and sounds like yours.