Baldur's Gate III
Trivia
Awards
- The Game Awards 2023
- Game of the Year - Won
- Best Game Direction - Nominated
- Best Narrative - Nominated
- Best Score and Music - Nominated
- Best Performance (Neil Newbon as Astarion) - Won
- Best Community Support - Won
- Best RPG - Won
- Best Multiplayer - Won
- Player's Voice - Won
- GameSpot
- Game of the Year 2023 - Won
- Golden Joysticks 2023
- Best Storytelling - Won
- Best Visual Design - Won
- Studio of the Year (Larian Studios) - Won
- Best Game Community - Won
- Best Supporting Performer (Neil Newbon as Astarion) - Won
- Best Supporting Performer (Amelia Tyler as the narrator) - Nominated
- PC Game of the Year - Won
- Ultimate Game of the Year - Won
- Hollywood Music in Media Awards
- Video Game Song, 2020 ("Weeping Dawn" composed by Borislav Slavov and performed by Vesela Delcheva and the Budapest Studio Orchestra) - Nominated
- Video Game Song, 2021 ("I Want to Live" composed by Borislav Slavov and performed by Ilona Ivanova) - Nominated
- Video Game Score, 2023 (Borislav Slavov) - Nominated
- 27th D.I.C.E Awards (2024)
- Outstanding Achievement in Story - Won
- Role-Playing Game of the Year - Won
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Design - Won
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction - Won
- Outstanding Achievement in Character (Astarion) - Nominated
- Outstanding Achievement in Character (Karlach) - Nominated
- Game of the Year - Won
- 24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2024)
- Game of the Year - Won
- Best Audio - Nominated
- Best Design - Won
- Best Narrative - Won
- Best Technology - Nominated
- Innovation Award - Nominated
- Social Impact Award - Nominated
- Audience Award - Won
- 2024 BAFTA Games Awards
- Artistic Achievement - Nominated
- Best Game - Won
- Multiplayer - Nominated
- Music - Won
- Narrative - Won
- Performer in a Leading Role (Amelia Tyler as the narrator) - Nominated
- Performer in a Leading Role (Neil Newbon as Astarion) - Nominated
- Performer in a Leading Role (Samantha Béart as Karlach) - Nominated
- Performer in a Supporting Role (Andrew Wincott as Raphael) - Won
- Performer in a Supporting Role (Tracy Wiles as Jaheira) - Nominated
- EE Player's Choice - Won
Cancelled Black Isle Studios' version
By 2002, Black Isle Studios was developing a game titled Baldur's Gate III (originally codenamed Project Jefferson and The Black Hound), and was to use a 3D engine and 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules. It was cancelled by 2003, when publisher Interplay lost the Dungeons & Dragons license to Atari.
Sales
During its 3 year-long early access period on Windows and Macintosh, the game sold 2.5 million copies according to studio lead Swen Vincke.
Baldur's Gate III had the second-biggest launch day on Steam in 2023, with approximately 470,000 concurrent players on 3 August 2023. The number of concurrent Steam players in general would peak at 875,343 on 13 August 2023 at 19:55:05 UTC, which was the 9th all-time highest peak on the platform according to SteamDB.
Note: At the time, the only other storefront the game was available from was GOG.com, for which there is no publicly available sales data.
Trivia contributed by Plok.