The PC launch for Baldur’s Gate 3 is here to get our various parties back out there in the mix of Baldur’s Gate
As if you all needed the reminder that Baldur’s Gate 3 was launching on the PC today out there. Here we go, though, just in case you did not have it marked down and were ready to use that “excuse from work/school” that Larian Studios offered out there. The game is out there on the PC in full form after so many years of development and in the Early Access form of this. Download and get a jump on the fun of Baldur’s Gate 3 now while the PS5 gamers have to wait a whole month longer to see if it will make the leap over to the platform well. That will be the only worry that I know I have for it all at this stage in the game out there.
If you are part of the small population of gamers out there that had no clue or interest in Baldur’s Gate 3, this day also comes along with a nice new trailer to take in for the game. One that shows off more of the cinematic themes of the game and not so much of the gameplay in the mix. We do get to hear quite a bit of the great voice acting in the mix of it all. Weirdly, though, the bigger announcement that is here for Baldur’s Gate 3 is hidden a bit lower. Not that it will be on the PS5 and, hopefully, the Mac on September 6th. No, it looks like there are a few other platforms that the game will be making its way onto down the line too. I bet you did not see that coming on the PC launch day of this one here.
Baldur’s Gate 3 — PC Launch Trailer
An epic RPG six years in the making and more than twenty years in the waiting, Baldur’s Gate 3 is out today on PC via Steam, GOG, and NVIDIA GeForce Now. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the next-generation RPG from the creators of Divinity: Original Sin 2, set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons and providing a level of breadth and depth unprecedented in a modern RPG. More than twenty years after the release of Baldur’s Gate 2, it’s finally time to return to the Forgotten Realms. Your choices shape this tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power.
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 as the Dark Urge, a fully customizable Origin hero with its own unique mechanics and story. Whoever you choose to be, you’re free to adventure, loot, battle, and romance your way across the Forgotten Realms and beyond.
Gather your friends and take the adventure online as a party of up to four players. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, together you will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms.
Baldur’s Gate 3 releases for PlayStation 5 on September 6 – the game arrives on September 3 for owners of the PS5 Digital Deluxe Edition. A release on Mac is also targeting early September. Additional platform support is TBD.
The other platforms for Baldur’s Gate 3 are not listed, but it should be easy to assume it would be the Xbox Series X|S at a minimum. Maybe we will be able to see the game make the jump to the last-gen consoles too, but that could be a little too much to ask for. The same goes when we are talking about the Switch too, but that seems a little more likely than the others at this point. Unless the rumor of a new Nintendo console is true and this is the studio’s sly way of stating that Baldur’s Gate 3 would be a launch title on that system. That is a whole lot of rumor and speculation, though, so we will just keep looking at the Xbox as being the one listed as TBD still.
Are you glad to get this reminder or did you already step into the world of Baldur’s Gate with this launch already? Will it be worth the wait for the other platforms out there or will this one be a game that needs to be on the PC to get the full enjoyment? What other platforms do you suspect will make the leap onto and will the speculation pay off out there? Take to the comment section and discuss, if you can pull yourself away from the game long enough for that. We will share more for Baldur’s Gate 3 as we get it all, so please keep checking back in for all of that and everything else we can muster up for you.