Two years ago today,Baldur’s Gate 3left early access, and the full game was available to play on PC. We got console ports in the following months, but limited availabilty didn’t hurt Baldur’s Gate 3’s success at all, as it launched to an eyewatering concurrent player count of 875,343 onSteamalone - and that’s with the game also being available onGOG.

Now, two years on, with the game available on bothPS5andXbox Series X/S, Baldur’s Gate 3 is still going strong. In the past 24 hours, it pulled in 79,292 players on Steam, putting it in the top 20 across the whole site. Frankly, these are the kind of figures you’d expect from a live service, not a single-player game that you’re supposed to stop playing eventually.

Karlach from Baldur’s Gate cupping the cheek of the player character. Karlach is a red tiefling with a horn, and the player character is a purple drow with elven ears and long white hair.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Two Years Old, And It’s Still Going Strong

Even as I write this, 58,714 Steam users are playing Baldur’s Gate 3 at once. Not bad, consideringwe just got an update that broke a bunch of modded playthroughs.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s 24-hour peak is enough to put it ahead a bunch of live services and new releases, includingElden Ring Nighreign,EA Sports FC 25,Destiny 2,Call of Duty,Helldivers 2, andTeam Fortress 2. This is despite Baldur’s Gate 3 very muchnotbeing a live service, even if it did receive a bunch of updates that added new content.

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The final major update dropped in April, adding new subclasses for every class, a photo mode, and more. This gave a lot of us another reason to boot the game up and start a new run - and now, we even have official mod support. As we’ve seen with games like Skyrim, a healthy modding community can keep a game going for years after the developers have moved on to other things, so perhapswe’ll finally see Larian walk away from the Forgotten Realmsand focus on the two new RPGs it has in the works.

In the meantime, it looks like many of us are happy to keep playing Baldur’s Gate 3. True enough, the different classes and origins you can play around with can mix up each run - and that’s not even getting into the choices you can make throughout the story. Oh, and the romances, although I am finding it quite impossible to do a run without ending up with Karlach. One day, I’m sure.