Baldur’s Gate 3
Larian Studios truly outdid itself with Baldur’s Gate 3. The Dungeons & Dragons RPG is a stellar marriage of roleplaying, tactical combat, and immersive sim design, complete with one of the most memorable RPG casts we’ve gotten in a hot minute. The game shows that exploration in an RPG doesn’t have to be about searching every nook and cranny of an open world, but can instead be found in seeing how your spells react to each other, how using an ability can help you circumvent a seemingly impossible challenge, and talking to others and finding out all the cool ways they handled a situation you didn’t even think of.
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Video games can only account for so many ideas and verbs we as players have, and even as expansive as it feels, Baldur’s Gate 3 is no exception to the limitations of lines of code. But it does one hell of a job of emulating the freedom of a tabletop game. — Kenneth Shepard
Playable on: PC, PlayStation 5
Rough average playtime: 47.5 hours
