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Baldur's Gate 3 cover art

Baldur's Gate 3

Larian Studios · 2023-08-03

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureRPGStrategy

Franchise: Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 22, 2023 (Mac), Sep 06, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Dec 08, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 06, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Google Stadia), Sep 23, 2025 (Linux)

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.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a 2023 Adventure, RPG and Strategy game priced at $59.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000,000 .. 50,000,000 and a review sentiment of Overwhelmingly Positive (97% of 852298 reviews).

38,737
playing now
97%
positive of 862k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,371
twitch viewers (latest)
8.6
viewers/channel (concentration)
95/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
95/100
IGDB user rating (1587 ratings)
19,861
Nexus mods (552M downloads)
4.78★
PlayStation Store rating (111,381 ratings)
96/100
opencritic · mighty · 96% recommend · from 167 critics
132h
to beat · rushed 128h · completionist 5650h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)

38,737 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing video game by Larian Studios. It is the third installment in the Baldur's Gate series. The game's full release for Windows happened on August 3, 2023, with PlayStation 5, macOS, and Xbox Series X/S later in the same year. In the game's narrative, the party seeks to cure themselves of the Illithid parasites infecting their brains. It can be played alone or in a group.

Health check

Thriving
  • · 38,737 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 37,878 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4,735/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (181,967 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-16

Tier history: healthy→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→healthy (Sep 15)

Estimated sales: 17M–39M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 861,988 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$48.99-30%
GOG$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $41.99 at Steam (2026-07-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $69.99 · on sale 18 of 69 observed days · $7.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
175k175k20202026Week of 2020-10-01: 19,543 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2,618 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4,980 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 452 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1,747 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 223 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,195 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 189 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1,263 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 175 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,679 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 219 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 935 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 155 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 767 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1,008 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 162 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 810 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 671 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 138 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1,277 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 196 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 837 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 554 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 600 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 153 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 723 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 161 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 453 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 123 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 108 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 380 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 147 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 964 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 234 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 631 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 465 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 455 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 158 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 529 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 941 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 959 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 752 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 985 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 895 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 793 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 980 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 8,513 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 386 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 174,597 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7,370 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 66,975 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2,395 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 29,420 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,081 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 87,425 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,167 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 31,852 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,282 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 29,493 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,249 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 18,164 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 801 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 14,453 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 715 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9,897 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 443 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9,534 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 420 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8,741 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 388 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 10,734 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 519 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9,390 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 403 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11,140 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 612 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7,606 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 334 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 17,253 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 388 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 20,427 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,239 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9,109 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 427 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7,103 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 319 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7,557 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 295 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 9,508 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 426 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7,820 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 366 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5,873 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 305 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 6,479 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 315 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5,799 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 247 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5,672 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 334 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5,596 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 277 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11,619 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 249 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6,637 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 523 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 7,202 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 503 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5,097 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 291 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5,129 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 298 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3,909 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 180 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4,248 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 270 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3,718 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 211 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4,641 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 260 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4,972 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 313 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 4,131 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 210 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1,550 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 92 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

72k24k2026-09-14 22:00 — 40,082 players2026-09-15 22:00 — 40,560 players2026-09-17 12:00 — 31,521 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 34,703 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 46,618 players2026-09-20 12:00 — 52,937 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 35,981 players2026-09-22 12:00 — 36,385 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 34,423 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 33,486 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 34,854 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 44,974 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 50,959 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 34,547 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 31,987 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 31,145 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 32,603 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 34,233 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 44,943 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 50,527 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 35,310 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 35,317 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 34,476 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 33,727 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 35,818 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 44,564 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 52,049 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 34,918 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 32,434 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 31,555 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 38,737 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
451k1.1kOct 2020Aug 2026Oct 2020 — avg 16,792 · peak 48,418Dec 2020 — avg 2,671 · peak 6,785Feb 2021 — avg 2,424 · peak 10,693Apr 2021 — avg 1,968 · peak 3,756Jun 2021 — avg 1,274 · peak 2,405Aug 2021 — avg 2,036 · peak 3,851Oct 2021 — avg 3,648 · peak 11,903Dec 2021 — avg 1,496 · peak 2,792Feb 2022 — avg 2,074 · peak 5,816Apr 2022 — avg 1,207 · peak 2,256Jun 2022 — avg 1,071 · peak 2,014Aug 2022 — avg 1,844 · peak 3,870Oct 2022 — avg 1,231 · peak 2,457Dec 2022 — avg 3,669 · peak 10,965Feb 2023 — avg 2,139 · peak 4,676Apr 2023 — avg 2,442 · peak 4,716Jun 2023 — avg 2,107 · peak 4,271Aug 2023 — avg 450,982 · peak 875,343Oct 2023 — avg 148,108 · peak 333,010Dec 2023 — avg 131,808 · peak 258,536Feb 2024 — avg 103,998 · peak 200,843Apr 2024 — avg 67,371 · peak 125,240Jun 2024 — avg 58,746 · peak 103,767Aug 2024 — avg 66,700 · peak 119,687Oct 2024 — avg 62,014 · peak 120,185Dec 2024 — avg 61,424 · peak 111,403Feb 2025 — avg 58,799 · peak 108,782Apr 2025 — avg 71,449 · peak 168,862Jun 2025 — avg 54,292 · peak 105,828Aug 2025 — avg 53,730 · peak 94,332Oct 2025 — avg 46,881 · peak 87,229Dec 2025 — avg 52,246 · peak 107,963Feb 2026 — avg 51,140 · peak 100,711Apr 2026 — avg 40,041 · peak 73,878Jun 2026 — avg 39,517 · peak 68,855Aug 2026 — avg 49,972 · peak 83,011
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#33#452026-09-142026-10-142026-09-14 — #382026-09-15 — #352026-09-16 — #352026-09-17 — #352026-09-18 — #362026-09-19 — #362026-09-20 — #372026-09-21 — #332026-09-22 — #332026-09-23 — #332026-09-24 — #332026-09-25 — #342026-09-26 — #372026-09-27 — #392026-09-28 — #372026-09-29 — #372026-09-30 — #382026-10-01 — #402026-10-02 — #412026-10-03 — #412026-10-04 — #442026-10-05 — #402026-10-06 — #402026-10-07 — #422026-10-08 — #422026-10-09 — #422026-10-10 — #432026-10-11 — #452026-10-12 — #422026-10-13 — #412026-10-14 — #41
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
2682682026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 113 new positive2026-09-15: 4 new negative2026-09-16: 118 new positive2026-09-16: 5 new negative2026-09-17: 122 new positive2026-09-17: 6 new negative2026-09-18: 144 new positive2026-09-18: 8 new negative2026-09-19: 126 new positive2026-09-19: 12 new negative2026-09-20: 154 new positive2026-09-20: 9 new negative2026-09-21: 188 new positive2026-09-21: 1 new negative2026-09-22: 262 new positive2026-09-22: 7 new negative2026-09-23: 124 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 101 new positive2026-09-24: 9 new negative2026-09-25: 119 new positive2026-09-25: 7 new negative2026-09-26: 142 new positive2026-09-26: 6 new negative2026-09-27: 150 new positive2026-09-27: 8 new negative2026-09-28: 157 new positive2026-09-29: 143 new positive2026-09-29: 5 new negative2026-09-30: 160 new positive2026-09-30: 7 new negative2026-10-01: 115 new positive2026-10-01: 5 new negative2026-10-02: 128 new positive2026-10-03: 129 new positive2026-10-03: 11 new negative2026-10-04: 180 new positive2026-10-04: 10 new negative2026-10-05: 172 new positive2026-10-05: 9 new negative2026-10-06: 268 new positive2026-10-06: 8 new negative2026-10-07: 132 new positive2026-10-07: 6 new negative2026-10-08: 145 new positive2026-10-08: 8 new negative2026-10-10: 125 new positive2026-10-10: 5 new negative2026-10-11: 128 new positive2026-10-11: 5 new negative2026-10-12: 150 new positive2026-10-12: 5 new negative2026-10-13: 114 new positive2026-10-13: 2 new negative2026-10-14: 115 new positive2026-10-14: 3 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$69.99$41.992020-10-062026-10-142020-10-06 — best price $59.992024-01-04 — best price $59.992024-03-21 — best price $59.992024-05-23 — best price $59.992024-07-11 — best price $59.992024-09-09 — best price $59.992024-11-26 — best price $47.992024-12-19 — best price $47.992025-02-10 — best price $47.992025-03-19 — best price $47.992025-04-07 — best price $47.992025-05-19 — best price $47.992025-06-26 — best price $47.992025-09-01 — best price $44.992025-09-25 — best price $44.992025-10-06 — best price $59.992026-01-05 — best price $59.992026-03-19 — best price $44.992026-05-04 — best price $44.992026-06-24 — best price $44.992026-07-30 — best price $41.992026-08-07 — best price $48.992026-08-27 — best price $59.992026-08-30 — best price $59.992026-09-02 — best price $59.992026-09-05 — best price $59.992026-09-08 — best price $59.992026-09-11 — best price $59.992026-09-14 — best price $59.992026-09-17 — best price $59.992026-09-20 — best price $59.992026-09-23 — best price $59.992026-09-26 — best price $59.992026-09-29 — best price $41.992026-10-02 — best price $41.992026-10-05 — best price $41.992026-10-08 — best price $59.992026-10-11 — best price $59.992026-10-14 — best price $48.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.6k1.5k2026-05-13 — 1,688 pageviews2026-05-17 — 1,674 pageviews2026-05-21 — 1,457 pageviews2026-05-25 — 1,800 pageviews2026-05-29 — 1,722 pageviews2026-06-02 — 2,159 pageviews2026-06-06 — 2,067 pageviews2026-06-10 — 1,833 pageviews2026-06-14 — 1,702 pageviews2026-06-18 — 1,644 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1,725 pageviews2026-06-26 — 2,076 pageviews2026-06-30 — 2,274 pageviews2026-07-04 — 2,025 pageviews2026-07-08 — 1,926 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2,545 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1,760 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1,931 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2,016 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1,950 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2,196 pageviews2026-08-05 — 2,272 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2,154 pageviews2026-08-13 — 1,942 pageviews2026-08-17 — 1,878 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1,749 pageviews2026-08-25 — 2,110 pageviews2026-08-29 — 2,018 pageviews2026-09-02 — 1,976 pageviews2026-09-06 — 1,964 pageviews2026-09-10 — 1,746 pageviews2026-09-14 — 1,928 pageviews2026-09-18 — 1,820 pageviews2026-09-22 — 1,853 pageviews2026-09-26 — 1,801 pageviews2026-09-30 — 1,774 pageviews2026-10-04 — 1,977 pageviews2026-10-08 — 1,694 pageviews2026-10-12 — 1,862 pageviews2026-10-13 — 1,643 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

5.0k2262026-09-30 22:34 — 1,554 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 402 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 859 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 1,089 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 505 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 1,575 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 1,155 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 923 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 1,507 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 566 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 1,728 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 1,164 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 443 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 2,000 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 997 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 591 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 1,380 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 545 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 921 viewers2026-10-08 01:34 — 991 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 375 viewers2026-10-08 19:34 — 2,563 viewers2026-10-09 04:34 — 713 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 740 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 1,129 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 462 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 5,032 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 938 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 529 viewers2026-10-11 19:34 — 4,255 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 879 viewers2026-10-12 13:12 — 2,481 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 3,847 viewers2026-10-13 05:34 — 586 viewers2026-10-13 13:34 — 3,608 viewers2026-10-13 22:34 — 1,186 viewers2026-10-14 07:34 — 585 viewers2026-10-14 16:34 — 3,350 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 1,371 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
89.2%
earned "Descent From Avernus"
24.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsAdjustable Text Size2 DLC

14 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-08-03, latest 2024-09-05 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)154,1092%54
PS5 (PlayStation)45,2773%55
Xbox Series, Windows (Xbox)20,2011%54

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGCRPGFantasyRomanceStrategyAdventureStory RichMultiplayerOnline Co-OpSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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