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Baldur’s Gate 3: the most used races and classes, total playtime, and other stats shared by Larian Studios
It’s the year of the RPG thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3′s release on PC (and soon on PS5), so the studio behind the game celebrated with some fun stats about the game so far.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a true phenomenon both critically and commercially. On the one hand, we have the fact that he has been able to surpass a colossus like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Metacritic. On the other, a feat such as sneaking into the TOP 10 of the most played games in the history of Steam, in that select club that includes names such as PUBG, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077, among others. Larian Studios is aware of its success, so to celebrate they have shared a series of very curious details and statistics about the game and the way in which users enjoy what is undoubtedly the greatest RPG of 2023.
Baldur’s Gate 3 in numbers
Below we review the most striking data and numbers shared by Larian Studios, among which we can see how many players have been able to complete the game in its first days, along with the most used races and character classes, and other very interesting aspects.
- 368 players completed the game (all three acts) in the first three days of its release.
- 93% of players customized their character from scratch, while the remaining 7% opted for an Origin one.
- With nearly 300,000 players, the community’s favorite character race is Half-elf.
- By far the most popular Baldur’s Gate 3 class is the Paladin. The Cleric is the least chosen.
- Scratch, a dog you meet after a few hours of playing, has been petted more than 750,000 times.
- Those with the ability to talk to animals have done so more than 2.4 million times.
- For their part, those who can talk to the dead have engaged in conversation with more than 1.4 million corpses.
- Players have played more than 10 million hours (more than a thousand years) of accumulated play.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is now available on PC via Steam. As for consoles, the only confirmed platform is PS5; which will arrive on September 6, 2023 on the Sony machine.