Baldur’s Gate 3, the highest-rated computer game of 2023, continues to delight its fans even 2 months after its official release. The single-player role-playing game is not only among the top-selling games on Steam, but also attracts about 200,000 players every day.
Why it matters: It’s not often that single-player games can attract such a large number of players after two months, as such projects quickly lose their appeal. Therefore, it is obvious that players have deeply loved the latest release from Larian Studios.
The game, developed by Larian Studios, recently transitioned from a successful three-year early access period to a worldwide release, effectively taking over Steam.
According to SteamDB, in the past 24 hours, the number of concurrent players in Baldur’s Gate 3 reached almost 200,000. Their number often increases on weekends, and the actual number of players is likely much higher. On the day of Baldur’s Gate 3 release, it reached an incredible peak of 472,136 players at the same time. Ten days later, the number of concurrent players in the Steam version of the game reached 875,000.
This surge in popularity surpasses the total number of players in Larian Studio’s previous game, Divinity: Original Sin, and significantly exceeds the peak number of players in Divinity: Original Sin 2, which now seems relatively small – 93,701.
The fact that Baldur’s Gate 3 has maintained such a number of players after two months is quite impressive. In the past, games like Hogwarts Legacy lost 90% of their players within a month after release.
This makes the role-playing game from Larian Studios an exception, highlighting its superiority and value. The growth in popularity of single-player role-playing games in the era dominated by free-to-play games focused on microtransactions shows that good single-player projects can captivate players. And the fact that piracy is not an obstacle for such projects – the game has no protection.
Over 96% of the reviews for the game on Steam in the last month are also positive, allowing the game to receive an “overwhelmingly positive” rating from Steam’s wide audience.
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