Highlights
- Baldur's Gate 3 has received overwhelming critical acclaim and currently has a 94 overall rating on Metacritic, making it one of the highest-rated video games of all time.
- The original Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 also had high review scores, with the latter being the highest-rated game in the series so far with a 95 overall rating.
- The Baldur's Gate trilogy is not only praised by professional reviewers but also highly rated by the gaming community, with user scores of 8.9 for the first game and 9.2 for both Baldur's Gate 2 and Baldur's Gate 3.
Now that Baldur's Gate 3 reviews are out, all three games in the franchise have a review aggregate score of over 90. The original Baldur's Gate released in 1998 courtesy of BioWare and was a landmark release, with the sequel, Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, similarly enjoying near-universal praise from fans and critics alike.
The first two Baldur's Gate games set an incredibly high bar for Baldur's Gate 3, but many fans were confident that Larian Studios would be up to the task. Larian's track record really speaks for itself, with the developer putting out some of the highest-rated RPGs of modern times, including the award-winning Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel. Hype kept building for Baldur's Gate 3 in the months leading up to its launch, and now that the game is out, it's proven to be an absolutely monumental success.
Baldur's Gate 3 has exploded in popularity on Steam, becoming one of the most popular games in the platform's history overnight. Not only that, but the innovative RPG has been earned a great deal of critical acclaim. While there's still time for the overall review score to fluctuate, Baldur's Gate 3 currently has a 94 overall rating on review aggregate site Metacritic, making it one of the highest-rated video games of all time. Its predecessors also earned overall review scores north of 90, with the original Baldur's Gate having a 91 rating and Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn remaining the highest-rated game in the series so far with its 95 overall rating.
Baldur's Gate Reviews
Not only have professional reviewers showered the Baldur's Gate trilogy with high marks, but the community has as well. There are many instances were the overall user score for a game is significantly different from the professional review score, typically due to review bombing efforts. But that's not the case with the Baldur's Gate games. The first game has an 8.9 user score, while both Baldur's Gate 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 have 9.2. So not only is the Baldur's Gate trilogy one of the highest-rated game trilogies from a professional reviews standpoint, but it's also one of the highest-rated game trilogies from a user score standpoint.
Baldur's Gate 3's lack of microtransactions, dizzying scope, and commitment to providing as entertaining of an experience as possible have helped it become one of the year's hottest games. And Baldur's Gate 3's story is far from over. Only the PC version of the game is available right now, but Baldur's Gate 3 is coming to PS5 next month with an Xbox port happening at some point later down the line.
Baldur's Gate 3 is out now for PC with a PS5 version releasing September 6. An Xbox version is also in development.
