Baldur's Gate 3

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — graphic
AdventureFantasyRPG
🏆 The Game Awards 2023 — Game of the Year🏆 BAFTA Games Awards 2024 — Best Game

What's in it

Sexual content explicit
High

Several romance arcs culminate in strong, explicit sex scenes with companions or others, including a non-humanoid partner, shown on screen.

Violence graphic & gore
High

Turn-based fantasy combat against humans, goblins, and monsters with heavy blood spray and kill animations that leave gory corpses.

Nudity full
High

Full nudity appears in the character creator (including genitals) and during sex and bathing scenes.

Substances player uses or trades
High

Characters brew and drink alcohol at taverns and the player can consume drinks to become intoxicated.

Dark themes graphic
High

Heavy subject matter includes body horror of mind-flayer parasites, grief, slavery, abuse, and characters wrestling with corruption and control.

Occult & ritual player performs occult ritual
High

Devils and demons are summoned and bargained with, and dark blood rituals and pacts are depicted in the story.

Prostitution / sex work player can engage
High

A pleasure house (Sharess's Caress) lets the player pay a courtesan for a night.

Language strong
High

Strong profanity including 'fuck' and 'shit' appears in companion and NPC dialogue.

Horror & psychological frightening
Moderate

Illithid tadpoles, ceremorphosis body horror, undead, and grotesque enemies create disturbing and frightening moments.

Crime & lawlessness player commits crime
Moderate

The player can pickpocket, steal, and murder NPCs, with theft and killing as available choices.

Torture depicted
Moderate

Torture and interrogation of captives is depicted, and the player can participate in cruel interrogation choices.

Suicide & self-harm depicted
Moderate

Suicide and self-destruction are referenced in dialogue and certain narrative outcomes.

Mutilation / body horror depicted
Moderate

Dismemberment and severed limbs occur as a focus of some combat kills and grisly scene details.

Animal combat combat mechanic
Low

Wolves, bears, boars, and other beasts are fought and killed as ordinary combat encounters.

Sexual violence referenced
Low

Sexual coercion and assault are referenced in some characters' backstories and villain dialogue.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chat

What it is

Baldur's Gate 3 is a large story-driven fantasy role-playing game based on Dungeons & Dragons, where you build a character, gather companions, and make branching choices through a long adventure across the Sword Coast. Combat is turn-based and bloody, with monsters and people cut down amid heavy gore and occasional dismemberment. The story deals in mature material: mind-controlling parasites, cults, murder, torture, demonic pacts, and body horror. Optional companion romances lead to depicted sex scenes, and full nudity is available. Strong profanity, alcohol use, theft, and a pay-for-company brothel are also present. It can be played solo or in online co-op with friends, and includes voice and text chat.

How it's framed

The game presents choice-driven morality: the player decides whether to act with kindness, cruelty, or self-interest, and the story reacts accordingly rather than steering toward a fixed lesson. Dark and violent acts are available and sometimes rewarded within the plot, while companions and the world respond to how the player treats them.

Details

Developer
Larian Studios
Publisher
Larian Studios
Released
Aug 3, 2023
Metacritic 96critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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