Baldur's Gate 3 — Latest Updates & Patch Notes
Baldur's Gate 3 is currently the #40 most-played game on Steam, with a 24-hour peak of 68K concurrent players — ▼ cooling off (was #37 last week).
Last official update Sep 6, 2026 (today) · 12 updates in the last 90 days · 12 tracked here.
- Steam rank
- #40 ▼
- Peak (24h)
- 68K
- Genre
- Adventure, RPG, Strategy
- Developer
- Larian Studios
- Released
- Aug 3, 2023
- Price
- $59.99
- Metacritic
- 96
- Steam reviews
- 754K
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.
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Latest updates & patch notes
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Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion teams up with The Blood of Dawnwalker's Coen to ponder "the ennui of immortality"
Two of gaming's most prolific vampires come together as the Baldur's Gate 3 and Blood of Dawnwalker actors discuss their biggest influences. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion teams up with The Blood of Dawnwalker's Coen to ponder "the ennui of…
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Baldur's Gate 3's Mizora becomes a fully-fledged companion thanks to a new mod, just in case you fancy adding a calculating cambion to your crew
Not content with just adding to the questlines and interactivity of Baldur's Gate 3 's established gang of companions or working on their own for custom campaigns , modders have even started turning other characters from the game into recruitable buddies. The latest to get this…
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If you're desperate for more Baldur's Gate 3, here's a 6-hour mini-campaign all about Astarion with 4 different endings and 6 new companions
We don't really need more Baldur's Gate 3 , given how vast and replayable Larian Studios' RPG already is. That said, I'd never say no to more adventures within Larian's highly flexible adaptation of the Forgotten Realms. And while Larian itself has sworn off expanding BG3 any…
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RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them
In my Honour Mode playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 , I romanced Gale— you can see my full thoughts on our under-appreciated wizard boy here . What solidified him as one of my all-time RPG romances, however, wasn't his wit or his very nice hair. It was a conversation in which he…
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BioWare veteran says Baldur's Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn't try to be too much like Baldur's Gate 2
Mark Darrah was a programmer on the original Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2, along with Neverwinter Nights and Jade Empire, and served as executive producer of the Dragon Age series from Origins through Inquisition before leaving in 2020—and coming back in 2023 to kick in on…
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Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 is known for being, well, smutty—so much so that when the game first came out, we were in fierce, rigorous , masterful debates over it (stop giggling). The game has a lot of sensual scenes, but it also comes with a streamer-friendly mode to cover up all the…
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Baldur's Gate 3's official livestream gets banned on YouTube and TikTok. Why? "Demon sex."
Baldur's Gate 3's official livestream was axed midway through on YouTube, as the platform's nudity policy kicked in a little too hard. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Baldur's Gate 3's official livestream gets banned on YouTube and TikTok. Why? "Demon sex."
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Almost 10,000 people have played Baldur's Gate 3 in a portrait aspect ratio, so join me in figuring out why they'd commit such sacrilege
The amount of time I spend thinking about aspect ratios would potentially be a cause for concern if it wasn't, admittedly, an unquestionably dull thing to think about for most people. Yet I continue to do so as the way we choose to frame any kind of image is an important one, as…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 стала частью программы Xbox Play Anywhere — покупатели игры для Xbox Series X|S могут бесплатно загрузить версию для ПК
Культовая ролевая игра Baldur’s Gate 3 от Larian Studios внезапно стала частью программы Xbox Play Anywhere . Эта система позволяет получить доступ к единожды приобретённой цифровой игре как на консолях Xbox , так и на ПК под управлением Windows .
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Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors
Baldur's Gate 3 is—my god—three years old at this point, but it continues to do numbers. I don't mean player numbers, though god knows it keeps doing those too, I mean that it keeps generating stats . How many deaths, how many murders, how many deployments of a weapon named…
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Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 28 Jul — 4 August 2026
* Mistfall Hunter ; * Cyberpunk 2077 ; * Halo: Campaign Evolved ; * Palworld ; * Marvel's Spider-Man 2 ; * Baldur's Gate 3 ; * Shift At Midnight ; * Corsair Cove ; * Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered ; * Battlefield™ 6 ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
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If you bounced off Baldur's Gate 3: now is the time to try again
I hated Baldur's Gate 3 on my first run, but if you, like me, struggled to gel with Larian's epic, here's why you need to return to Faerûn. Read the full story on PCGamesN: If you bounced off Baldur's Gate 3: now is the time to try again
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About Baldur's Gate 3
Gather your party and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Mysterious abilities are awakening inside you, drawn from a mind flayer parasite planted in your brain. Resist, and turn darkness against itself. Or embrace corruption, and become ultimate evil. From the creators of Divinity: Original Sin 2 comes a next-generation RPG, set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Choose from 12 classes and 11 races from the D&D Player's Handbook and create your own identity, or play as an Origin hero with a hand-crafted background. Or tangle with your inner corruption…
Game details
- System requirements (minimum)
- Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 150 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD required
- Languages
- English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Korean, Japanese * languages with full…
- Controller
- Full controller support
- DLC
- 2 available on Steam
- Official site
- baldursgate3.game
Frequently asked questions
- Is Baldur's Gate 3 free to play?
- Baldur's Gate 3 is a paid game ($59.99) on Steam.
- What is the latest Baldur's Gate 3 update?
- The most recent official update is "Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion teams up with The Blood of Dawnwalker's Coen to ponder "the ennui of immortality"" (Sep 6, 2026), categorized as News. Two of gaming's most prolific vampires come together as the Baldur's Gate 3 and Blood of Dawnwalker actors discuss their biggest influences. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion teams up with The Blood of Dawnwalker's Coen to ponder "the ennui of…
- How many people play Baldur's Gate 3?
- Baldur's Gate 3 peaked at 68K concurrent players in the last 24 hours, ranking #40 on Steam's most-played chart (it was #37 the previous week).
- When was Baldur's Gate 3 released?
- Baldur's Gate 3 was released on Aug 3, 2023 by Larian Studios.
- What kind of game is Baldur's Gate 3?
- Baldur's Gate 3 is a Adventure, RPG, Strategy game, featuring single-player, multi-player, co-op.
📊 Tracked here since Jul 16 · best rank #30 (Aug 17) · 35 days on our charts
Live player counts and update notes are pulled from Steam's public data and refreshed daily (last refresh: Sep 6, 2026). Excerpts are from official announcements; follow the source links for full notes. Baldur's Gate 3 and all related assets are trademarks of their respective owners.