Baldur’s Gate 3 was the runaway GOTY winner in 2023, and midway via 2024, it’s nonetheless placing up 80,000 concurrent gamers an evening, generally peaking at over 100K.
As such, you might anticipate the sport’s common playtime to be excessive. However this excessive? Larian has simply introduced (referencing Steam numbers) that common playtime for Baldur’s Gate 3 is 100 hours. For the style, for a single-player recreation, that’s completely wild, and I’m having bother discovering something to match it to.
Sure, I do know there’s co-op within the recreation, which technically makes it extra than simply single-player, however the overwhelming majority of gamers are taking part in solo, and there are so few video games which are even 100 hours lengthy to start out with, a lot much less ones which have an common playtime of 100 hours. A number of references:
- Starfield’s common playtime was 40 hours.
- Elden Ring’s common playtime on Steam was 47 hours.
- Skyrim’s common playtime was 75 hours.
So, to rocket all the best way to 100 hours for Baldur’s Gate 3 is de facto like nothing we’ve seen. One thing like GTA 5 doesn’t rely provided that we all know these excessive averages are from GTA On-line. Most different video games merely don’t even have the content material to make it to 100 hours in any respect.
Now, I do know what folks will say, that 100 hours could even be quick for Baldur’s Gate 3, and you’ll simply sink double or triple that into the sport. I’ve seen playtimes as much as 1,000 hours due to a number of playthroughs given the infinite quantity of various selections you may make within the recreation and alternate and inventive methods to strategy quests and fights. However you must notice that this quantity consists of those that didn’t end or could have bought and bounced proper off. Once more, we’re speaking about a number of the most well-known single-player video games of all time with regards to the likes of Skyrim and Elden Ring, and Baldur’s Gate 3 is out right here blowing all of them away.
I admittedly introduced down the typical. I solely (“solely”) made it about 50 hours in once I determined the turn-based fight was merely not going to be for me over the longer run, nevertheless a lot I liked the characters and story. Although I do completely perceive how if you happen to can embrace its gameplay, that this can be a recreation to sink 100, 300 or 500 hours into given all it has to supply.
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