Larian Studios will release Baldur’s Gate 3 in early access form on September 30, the studio announced during a livestream presentation Tuesday. It will not meet the best case, August launch scenario that Larian had hoped for, but fans will not have to wait that much longer for the game of early access to arrive on PC and Stadia.
The version of the early access of Baldur’s Gate 3 will have five Origin characters as well as custom characters. At launch, players will have access to Astarion (Elf / Vampire Rogue), Gale (Human Wizard), Lae’zel (Githyanki Warrior), Shadowheart (Half-Elf Cleric), and Wyll (Human Warlock). More signs will be announced “in very early access,” Larian said in a news release.
Players will be able to experience an early version of the first act of the game. Larian Studios creative director Swen Vincke today outlined the scope of early access, and how the first act of the game compares to the release of early access from Divinity: Original Sin 2. Here are some numbers, compare the two games for early access:
- Number of fights: 22 in DOS2 EA vs. 80 in BG3 EA
- Number of English dialogue lines: 17,600 in DOS2 EA vs. 45,980 in BG3 EA
- Number of characters: 142 in DOS2 EA vs. 596 in BG3 EA
- Number of spells / actions: 69 in DOS2 EA vs. 146 in BG3 EA
We have previewed Baldur’s Gate 3 back in February, found that the game lived up to the expectations set by the franchise, whose last full title launched 20 years ago, and that of Larian’s hugely popular Divinity series, which has released five games since 2002.
Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch on Windows PC via Steam, and the full version will also be available on Google Stages.
