I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
While we are all focused on another big fantasy RPG right now, Dragon’s Dogma 2, I think it’s appropriate to stop and take a look at one of the most insane gaming stories I’ve ever seen, theYes, it won most GOTY awards last year, including The Big One at The Game Awards itself, but past that, the sheer amount of people that played and haveWe are now just under eight months past launch here, as Baldur’s Gate 3 arrived on August 3, 2023.
While you can play this game co-op, it is for the most part a single player game, and it is not a “live” game in any sense of the term. It is also not solely supported by mods the way you might see something like Skyrim living a long life on Steam.
Again, it’s hard to find a point of recent comparison here for a non-live, non-competitive multiplayer game. Baldur’s Gate 3 is still doing close to half of what live, multiplayer megahit Helldivers 2 is doing which released two months ago. It’s often beating 2024 meteor Palworld.Even going back to a similar, hugely praised, very giant RPG like Elden Ring, it’s still different. Eight months after Elden Ring debuted with 953,000 concurrent players, it had around 36,000 .
It’s ironic that so many live games trying to peruse long-tail engagement through seasons and grinds and such are largely not doing even a fraction of what Baldur’s Gate 3 has done with a solely story-driven, self-contained game.
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