January 4th 2024.
Baldur's Gate 3 has been hugely successful on PC, according to Valve's new data on 2023's most popular games. It had the highest peak player count of any new game for the year, with 875,343 peak players, surpassing newcomers Hogwarts Legacy and Starfield, and even beating out evergreen live service titles like Apex Legends and PUBG. It's a testament to the game's popularity that it even beat out Valve mainstay Dota 2, which had 855,495 peak players.
However, there is some debate over whether Counter-Strike 2, with 1,802,853 peak players, should count as a new game, as it technically released in 2023 but is not a traditional sequel. Whatever the case, Baldur's Gate 3 has had an impressive performance on PC and has been generally well-received by critics, with a score of 96 on Metacritic. It even won the top spot in many people's list of the best games of 2023, putting it ahead of fellow critically-acclaimed title Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom.
On the console side, however, it's been much harder to tell how well Baldur's Gate 3 has done. It doesn't have a physical release yet and its digital sales aren't tracked in the US, so it's impossible to tell how the PlayStation 5 version has sold. The Xbox Series X/S edition only launched in December, but apart from continued problems with its save system, there's been no indication of how that has done either.
It's clear that Baldur's Gate 3 has been a huge success on PC, with an impressive peak player count and critical acclaim. While its console performance is still unknown, it's clearly a game that people are enjoying and it looks set to be remembered as one of the best games of 2023.
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