Baldur’s Gate III

A partial version of the game was released in early access format for Microsoft Windows, the Stadia streaming service, and MacOS on 6 October 2020. The game will be based on the 5th-edition Dungeons & Dragons rule set. The player character has been taken captive by the mind flayers, who have launched an invasion of Faerûn.

About Baldur’s Gate III in brief

Summary Baldur's Gate IIIBaldur’s Gate III is a role-playing video game that looks to offer both a single-player and cooperative multiplayer element. A partial version of the game was released in early access format for Microsoft Windows, the Stadia streaming service, and MacOS on 6 October 2020. The game will be based on the 5th-edition Dungeons & Dragons rule set, though it will include tweaks and modifications that Larian found necessary in translating it to a video game. The player character has been taken captive by the mind flayers, who have launched an invasion of Faerûn, and implanted with an illithid tadpole, a parasite capable of enthralling and transforming them into another mind flayer.

As the player character searches for a way to remove their parasite, they encounter other survivors of the wreck: the human wizard Gale, the half-elf cleric Shadowheart, the high elf vampire Astarion, the human warlock Wyll, and the githyanki fighter Lae’zel. Larian Studios was interested in making a sequel in the Baldur’s Gate series for some time, having first approached Wizards of the Coast after their release of Divinity: Original Sin around 2014. The new sequel has no connection to the cancelled Baldur’sGate III: The Black Hound.