A mind flayer tadpole has been planted in your brain. It is changing you. Corrupting you. And if you cannot find a cure, it will transform you into one of the most terrifying creatures in the Forgotten Realms. But the tadpole is also giving you power — strange, intoxicating, and deeply dangerous power — and in a world on the brink of being consumed by darkness, power may be the only thing standing between you and oblivion. Baldur’s Gate 3 is Larian Studios’ extraordinary, boundary-pushing, and utterly captivating RPG masterpiece — the most ambitious, most reactive, and most richly realised Dungeons & Dragons experience ever committed to a video game, and one of the greatest role-playing games ever made.
Choose from a roster of twelve distinct character classes — Fighter, Wizard, Rogue, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Paladin, Ranger, Barbarian, Monk, Bard, and Sorcerer — each with multiple subclasses that dramatically shape your abilities, your playstyle, and the way the world responds to you. Create your character from scratch with an extraordinary depth of customisation options — race, subrace, background, appearance, and ability scores — or choose from a selection of Origin Characters, each with their own fully voiced backstory, personal questline, and unique perspective on the events of the game. Every class, every race, and every background opens different dialogue options, different solutions to quests, and different ways of navigating a world that pays attention to everything you are.
The world of Baldur’s Gate 3 is built on the rules and lore of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition — the most beloved tabletop RPG system in history — and brings them to life with a fidelity, a creativity, and a sense of playful possibility that honours the spirit of tabletop gaming in the most spectacular fashion. Dice rolls determine the outcomes of skill checks, persuasion attempts, and countless other interactions — and the freedom to attempt virtually anything, to succeed spectacularly or fail hilariously, and to find unexpected solutions to every problem gives Baldur’s Gate 3 a sense of genuine improvisational possibility that no other RPG has ever matched.
The world itself is an extraordinary achievement in environmental design and interactive storytelling. From the sun-dappled wilderness of the Emerald Grove and the shadowy depths of the Underdark to the corrupted streets of Baldur’s Gate itself — one of the most iconic cities in fantasy gaming — every location in Baldur’s Gate 3 is packed with quests, secrets, environmental puzzles, hidden rooms, and the kind of layered, reactive storytelling that reveals new depths with every playthrough. Verticality is a constant feature — the world extends upward as much as outward, and the ability to jump, climb, fly, and teleport opens spatial possibilities that transform exploration into a constant source of discovery and surprise.
Combat in Baldur’s Gate 3 is turn-based and deeply tactical — a faithful and beautifully realised implementation of D&D 5e’s combat rules that rewards creative thinking, environmental awareness, and the imaginative combination of spells, abilities, and positioning. Use the high ground to gain attack bonuses, shove enemies off ledges, ignite oil slicks with fire spells, cast Darkness to blind enemies while your Darkvision-equipped companions fight freely within it, polymorph enemies into harmless creatures, and combine the unique abilities of every party member into tactical symphonies of creative destruction. Every combat encounter in Baldur’s Gate 3 is a puzzle with multiple solutions, and discovering those solutions is one of the game’s greatest and most enduring pleasures.
The companions of Baldur’s Gate 3 are among the finest ever written for an RPG — seven fully voiced, extraordinarily detailed, and deeply human characters whose stories, relationships, and reactions to your choices are woven through every hour of the game’s enormous runtime. Shadowheart the half-elf cleric, Astarion the vampire rogue, Gale the wizard haunted by a terrible secret, Lae’zel the fierce Githyanki warrior, Wyll the warlock bound by a dangerous pact, Karlach the tiefling barbarian with a heart of literal fire, and Halsin the druid with a complicated relationship with nature — each is a fully realised person with their own desires, their own traumas, their own opinions about your choices, and their own story that unfolds across dozens of hours of companion-specific content. Build friendships, forge rivalries, develop romances, and discover that in the world of Baldur’s Gate 3, the people you travel with matter as much as the destination.
Play the full game solo or team up with up to three friends in seamless online co-op — a multiplayer implementation that allows each player to control their own character, make their own choices in conversations, and experience the game’s branching narrative simultaneously in one of the most ambitious and entertaining co-operative RPG experiences ever created.
On PC, Baldur’s Gate 3 delivers a stunning visual experience with full support for 4K resolution, ultra-wide monitors, high frame rates, and a comprehensive suite of graphical options. The game also boasts a rapidly growing modding community that continues to expand its already enormous breadth of content in exciting new directions.
Game Features
- The most ambitious and reactive Dungeons & Dragons RPG ever made
- 12 classes with multiple subclasses and near-limitless character customisation
- Deeply reactive world built on D&D 5e rules with genuine improvisational freedom
- Turn-based tactical combat that rewards creativity, positioning & environmental thinking
- Six fully voiced Origin Characters plus a fully customisable created character
- Seven extraordinary companions with deep personal stories, quests & relationships
- Enormous interconnected world spanning wilderness, the Underdark & Baldur’s Gate itself
- Full campaign playable solo or in online co-op for up to four players
- Branching narrative with hundreds of choices and consequences across 100+ hours
- Full 4K, ultra-wide & high frame rate support on PC — available now on Steam
