Baldur's Gate 3
BANGER · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $59.99. Typically $44.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.82/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 863,857
- Critics
- 96 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 73.2h
- To 100%
- 181h 2.5x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 54
Price and sales
- Sales
- 23 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $41.99 July 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 33,147 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 23 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Solasta: Crown of the Magister ($29.99, scores 74) and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader ($49.99, scores 75).
More about Baldur's Gate 3
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 73.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 8,134 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 1 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 73.2 hours. Doing everything runs 181, 2.5 times as long.
863,857 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
An absolute (heh) banger of a game. Great story, unforgettable characters, a beautiful soundtrack and look of the game is well worth anything you'll pay for. It's a fantastic piece of media and I highly, highly encourage anyone who loves fantasy, DND or just enjoys a fantastic story to play this, Beautiful game.
2 more reviews
To be completely honest, I uninstalled Baldur's Gate 3 twice before the game finally clicked for me. At first, the overwhelming amount of systems, turn-based combat, and the feeling of being completely lost in the early levels almost beat me. To make matters worse, my first choice was a Bard a class that initially makes you feel more like a bystander than a hero. The game felt too punishing, overly complex, and the...
The game that proved me completely wrong. I used to always skip this game. I honestly didn't understand how people could enjoy this specific genre and I refused to believe the perfect review scores. Even when it won (Game of the Year) I thought to myself that it had to be an exaggeration. However curiosity eventually got the better of me. I made the decision to buy it and see what the hype was all about. To be...
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About the game
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM), 150 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Baldur's Gate 3 scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1086940/baldur-s-gate-3Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.