How long does it take to beat baldur’s gate 3?

How long is Baldur’s Gate 3 full game?

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How long is Baldur’s Gate 3? When focusing on the main objectives, Baldur’s Gate 3 is about 70½ Hours in length. If you’re a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 169 Hours to obtain 100% completion.

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How many endings does Baldur’s Gate 3 have?

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When it was revealed that Baldur’s Gate 3 has 17,000 ending variations, many fans were shocked and excited to uncover them all. Of course, most suspected that these endings would differ very slightly because otherwise the six years Larian spent on the game would turn into an eternity.

The game’s lead writer Adam Smith clarified what this number actually means and how many real endings there are. He said that this perception of multiple choices comes from a misconception of a branching narrative.

“It’s not that you start at point A, and then you keep branching and branching and branching,” he tells me, his hands tracing an arboreal outline in the air between us. “That’s often how people think of it, but the problem with that would be that if I make a choice, then I branch over here, and suddenly I’m over here and I can’t get back [to the trunk].”

He compared Baldur’s Gate 3’s narrative to a “big spiderweb” where the end of the game is the center and the start is the outer edge. “So you’re always heading towards the same point, and what happens when you get there is very different. But it interweaves, so you’re kind of dancing between plots.”

Smith added that getting the player back on track can be really hard. The world is living and your actions affect it too, so if an important character gets killed and they’re not available anymore, it becomes a problem, but there is always another way.

“The game reacts, the game can let that happen. You can always pull yourself out of it and get back to the plotline. There’s very few points in the game where you can be like ‘I don’t know what to do next. We try to make sure you always have direction. Even if everything goes to hell, or you decide to just kill everyone, you can pick up the thread and say ‘I’m gonna do this next’.

So as you might have guessed, there aren’t 17,000 distinct endings, these are just all the different paths you can take during your playthroughs. In fact, the real number of endings is much more humble – in the very low double digits, according to GamesRadar. Still, it’s more impressive than many games can offer, and your journey to the end is what you should focus on anyway.

“We’re not going to say this is a world that changes with every choice you make. What we are going to say – and it’s true – is that the characters react to every choice you make. Everything you click will cause something to happen. Sometimes it’s small, sometimes it’s subtle, but it all means something from the very first clicks.”

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Is Baldur’s Gate 3 a time sink?

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Baldur’s Gate 3 was the runaway GOTY winner in 2023, and halfway through 2024, it is still putting up 80,000 concurrent players a night, sometimes peaking at over 100K.

As such, you may expect the game’s average playtime to be high. But this high? Larian has just announced (referencing Steam numbers) that average playtime for Baldur’s Gate 3 is 100 hours. For the genre, for a single-player game, that’s absolutely wild, and I’m having trouble finding anything to compare it to.

Yes, I know there’s co-op in the game, which technically makes it more than just single-player, but the vast majority of players are playing solo, and there are so few games that are even 100 hours long to start with, much less ones that have an average playtime of 100 hours. A few references:

So, to rocket all the way to 100 hours for Baldur’s Gate 3 is really like nothing we’ve seen. Something like GTA 5 doesn’t count given that we know those high averages are from GTA Online. Most other games simply do not even have the content to make it to 100 hours at all.

Now, I know what people will say, that 100 hours may even be short for Baldur’s Gate 3, and you can easily sink double or triple that into the game. I’ve seen playtimes up to 1,000 hours thanks to multiple playthroughs given the infinite amount of different decisions you can make in the game and alternate and creative ways to approach quests and fights. But you have to realize that this number includes those who didn’t finish or may have purchased and bounced right off. Again, we’re talking about some of the most famous single-player games of all time when it comes to the likes of Skyrim and Elden Ring, and Baldur’s Gate 3 is out here blowing them all away.

I admittedly brought down the average. I only (“only”) made it about 50 hours in when I decided the turn-based combat was simply not going to be for me over the longer run, however much I loved the characters and story. Though I do absolutely understand how if you can embrace its gameplay, that this is a game to sink 100, 300 or 500 hours into given all it has to offer.

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Is Baldur’s Gate 3 hard?

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More or less every game I play, I start on normal difficulty. For review purposes, it feels like the experience most players will get. If something is comically easy I’ll crank it up, but yeah, normal it is.

Here comes Baldur’s Gate 3.

While I am confident in my ability to play action games or FPS titles on normal or hard, that absolutely does not apply to a turn-based RPG like Baldur’s Gate 3. Even though I will avoid every “just the story, please” difficulty in all other games, a handful of fights into Baldur’s Gate and I realized I was not going to progress in this game at all unless I made a change.

I started playing on easy. And if you are in this situation, I recommend playing on easy too. This is not Dark Souls or Elden Ring. No one is “demanding” an easy mode which isn’t in the game at all, running counter to its intended design. Baldur’s Gate 3 has an easy mode for this reason, for people who care more about seducing horned women and bear men than carefully strategized combat encounters.

I am not kidding when I say I am woefully terribly at Baldur’s Gate combat. Given the format here, this isn’t a “reaction time” thing like most games, it is simply a terrible comprehension of strategy and the rule set here. I have never played Dungeons and Dragons, so that’s a disadvantage. Turn-based games I have played are like, Pokemon and Final Fantasy, nothing like this. This is much close to XCOM, except way more complicated (and I was also bad at that game).

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I know there is a legion of “gamers” out there who say playing an ultra-hardcore game like Baldur’s Gate 3 on easy is something to be ashamed of. Doubly so if you’re a games journalist or content creator. Well guess what, I can’t be good at every type of game genre ever, and neither can most players.

But with Baldur’s Gate 3, the overall game is so good that you need to work your way through the combat to experience the excellent story and characters. And as you do so, you will likely continue to learn more and more about combat to become better at it over time.

And it’s not even that easy! I am currently like three levels down in the Underdark, stuck in a situation where a boss and his entire pirate camp are about to roast me, and I cannot beat the encounter to save my life. I’m probably just going to run away. So even now, I can’t just brute force my way through everything without getting better at the game. Easy mode is not a failsafe easy button for combat. Not in many situations.

Again, I cannot recommend doing this enough. I know many people that may consider just setting down the game entirely rather than surrendering and putting it on easy. That is stupid. And don’t let past achievements in other game genres tell you that it’s “bad” to go down a couple notches here. You will be missing out on greatness, otherwise.

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How big is Act 1 in BG3?

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RadioParker106: Just finished act one and I’m wondering if that’s actually about 1/3 of the way in terms of playtime.

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GirTheRobot: Act 2 was definitely a bit shorter and more streamlined. Act 3 can be as long as act 1 depending how much side stuff you do because there is a LOT. I put about 20 hours into act 3 and I bet I could have easily done another 5-10.

RadioParker106 (Topic Creator): Oh wow! Act one took me 50 hours, including the underdark, monastery etc. So it sounds like the end of act one is more like halfway in terms of time.

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GirTheRobot: well act 1 did not take me 50 hours. i think it took me about 25-30 and i missed a bit of content, but definitely did the big chunks. the hag, the monastery, the underdark, the goblin camp…

Wynvkius: That’s crazy bro I put almost 60 hours in act 1 in my solo game and about 40 hours in my multiplayer game.

Muhspaceaids: Act 1 and Act 3 are really long if you do everything. Id say Act 3 takes a lot longer too although everything is more congested since its mostly a big city whereas in Act 1 your running all over creation. Act 2 is INSANELY shorter by comparison. It’s on a blink and you miss it level of comparison. There just isnt a lot to do.

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Arathion: Act 1 took me about 45 hours or so, but I did a ton of exploring. Act 2 is significantly shorter, and Act 3 length is about the same as Act 1, if you decide to do all the side quests and such.

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GirTheRobot: 60 hours for act 1 is overkill tbh. i beat the game at about 65 hours. i honestly don’t even know how it’s possible to spend that much time in act 1 unless you’re meticulously checking every single nook and cranny and talking to every NPC. like i said i missed some side stuff, but i took care of all the big things in about 25-30 hours.

RadioParker106 (Topic Creator): I am. In addition to reading every book. You miss A LOT of stuff if you don’t talk to every NPC. It’s not like other games where you only get sidequests from people with a big glowing exclamation point over their head. Most of them start by talking to some random person (or animal).

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GirTheRobot: You rushed bro, and are probably playing on the easier difficulty because there is simply no way you beat th.

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What is the shortest act in Baldur’s Gate 3?

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After years of being in early access, Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally out in its entirety. Which means there are a whole lot of hijinks players can get up to in Larian Studios’ massive RPG set in one of Dungeons & Dragons’ most iconic settings. As a D&D adventure, a Larian game, and an RPG players should expect to spend a lot of time in the Forgotten Realms, still it might come as a shock just how long the game truly is. Here’s exactly how long it takes to beat the enormous experience that is Baldur’s Gate 3.

Larian Studios managed to pack what seems to be an endless amount of content into Baldur’s Gate 3. Head of Larian, Swen Vincke told IGN at the end of June that the average playthrough of the main story will take “between 75 and 100 hours”. That does not account for the numerous side activities you can get up to.

This lengthy playtime makes sense as Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 typically take over 50 hours to beat. In comparison, Larian’s previous games such as Divinity: Original Sin 2 have a comparable runtime that quickly reaches 100 hours.

However, according to Howlongtobeat.com, some players have managed to complete the main story of Baldur’s Gate 3 in as little as 25 hours. Though it is safe to assume that this approach only sees the critical path with little exploration or side content. For the majority of players, Baldur’s Gate 3 will be a long adventure filled with exploring the map in search of secrets and pursuing side quests that build out the game’s incredibly dense world full of fascinating characters to spend time with. Don’t be shocked when you roll credits and find that not only have you reached 100 hours players, but you are closer to 200 when all is said and done.

Exploring everything Baldur’s Gate 3 has to offer will rack up a large playtime.

The herculean effort of beating Baldur’s Gate 3 is made slightly more manageable by breaking up the game into different acts. Baldur’s Gate 3 has three acts in total. This is less than the meaty five acts of Larian’s own Divinity: Original Sin 2 but helps the game follow a more traditional story structure of opening, middle, and finale. If you are worried that three acts means less content to explore you need not have any such fear. The lengthy playtime is not split evenly between the game’s three acts.

The tens of hours that it will take you to beat Baldur’s Gate 3 are not split evenly amongst the game’s three acts, however. The opening act of Baldur’s Gate 3 will likely take you close to 25 hours to complete at a normal pace. Act 2 will make up the bulk of the game’s time, as the middle act holds the majority of the story development that needs to be done in the lead-up to a climactic finale. This means that completing Act 2 is likely to take 50 hours on its own, so be sure to take plenty of breaks during this long stretch. Once you make it through Act 2 the finale is within sight in a brisk 20 hours, making Act 3 the shortest act in Baldur’s Gate 3 as the action races towards its conclusion.

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