Who will win the title of the best video game of 2023? Between Nintendo's Zelda: Tears of the Kindgom, Sony's Spiderman 2, Bethesda's Starfield, or Warner's Hogwarts Legacy, the contenders for the trophy had been known for many months. But an outsider came to put his grain of salt to everyone's surprise. Released on August 3 on PC, Baldur's Gate 3 topped the charts, generated thousands of articles in the specialized media, garnered rave reviews from critics and players and ranked second most watched game on the Twitch video platform.
A tour de force for a title designed in Belgium by a studio that has not benefited from the strike force of a major publisher, and whose game mechanics go against the major market trends. Focused on storytelling and player choices and without any optional purchases, Baldur's Gate 3 is based on the Dungeons & Dragons universe, the famous board role-playing game license.
We didn't plan for that, everything is far beyond what we had imagined
Swen Vincke, founder of Larian Studios
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