The winner of the Hottest Game of the Year and also the Game Awards’ Game of the Year, Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3, has finally made its debut on Xbox after months on other platforms. Team Shadow brought its tabletop-inspired RPG to the Xbox Series X/S immediately after the show.
The journey here was difficult. Larian Studios faced some porting challenges Dungeons-based role-playing game on Xboxespecially with Here’s how split-screen co-op works on the technically less powerful Series S. Despite this setback, the team posted on X/Twitter (can we just call it Twitter again please?) on November 15th that the Xbox version of the game was “on track” for a release is in December, I promise the exact date would be revealed during the Game Awards. Although they didn’t make the announcement during the show, Larian Studios finally gave Xbox gamers the, er, meat they’ve been waiting for by releasing it live on the Xbox Store right after the show.
Unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been the dominant force across much of the gaming internet. In just four short months since the game was officially released – it first debuted in early access in 2020 before a full release in 2023 – Larian Studios said this 1.3 million people “graduated” Baldur’s Gate 3. Not just played, but played through completely. That’s a staggering completion rate. Other interesting statistics? People have spent 8,196 years creating characters, talked to over 113 million corpses, and thrown 84 million fireballs. Funnily enough, however, 66 percent of players chose Halsin. the bear-transforming druid, remaining in his human form during the infamous sex scene. I guess you really didn’t want him to have to endure all that, did you?
Anyway, Baldur’s Gate 3 receive a huge stain on November 3rd, which brought tons of additions and features to the game. There are two new game modes (One of them is permadeath, so good luck), a satisfying epilogue, new recruitment methods that prevent total annihilationand reimplemented Cock physics. Because why not?
