Baldur’s Gate 3 is great – but why has hardly anyone completed it? Most have never finished the mega RPG.
The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 is now 2 years ago, and most players should have had more than enough time to finish the mega role-playing game. However, this apparently is not the case. A look at the achievements on Steam shows: Less than a quarter of the community has finished the game. But these are even extremely good values when compared.
How many people have completed Baldur’s Gate 3? If you want to know how many players have completed a particular game, there is at least on Steam a relatively simple way to check this. You just have to look at the achievements and see how many people have earned the achievement for the final boss, the last chapter, or any other ending.
For Baldur’s Gate, this is the achievement “All’s Well That Ends Well” and the current value is at 23.4% – so slightly less than a quarter of the player base.
How do other games fare? That the value for Baldur’s Gate 3, although it is just under 25%, is extremely high, is especially shown by the direct comparison with other games. For example, if you look at The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which was released over 10 years ago – meaning 5 times more time has passed – the completion rate is only 22.5%.
In other RPGs, such as Pathfinder: Kingmaker, it is even more drastic. There, only 9.6% have finished the game – not even every 10th person.
What percentages are excluded? For Baldur’s Gate 3, it must also be noted that a small percentage is excluded, such as when modding the game – in that case, no achievements are awarded.
Also included in the percentage are people who bought the game and then returned it during the 2-hour refund window. Even these players are already counted in the achievement statistics.
Community sees many reasons why players don’t finish
If you look at the comments in the related Reddit post, you will find many reasons in the community why players never reach the end of Baldur’s Gate 3. Some theories and excerpts from it:
- “Most games, especially big RPGs, have very low completion rates. You’d be surprised how many people buy a full-price title, play it for an evening, and then never touch it again.” – Kalecraft
- “Sorry, I’m currently playing Act 1 for the 90th time.” – MrRightHanded
One argument is that Baldur’s Gate 3 loses a bit of momentum in Act 3. The city of Baldur’s Gate has so much to offer that the prevailing urgency suddenly finds an end, and one can get overwhelmed by side quests, potentially losing interest:
- “The Lower City [of Baldur’s Gate] is just too big, and you know it.” – WWnoname
Are you also among the people who never finished Baldur’s Gate 3? Or are you even among the 10% who never even made it out of the tutorial and are still chilling on the Nautiloid, hoping it eventually lands by itself?
Sometimes even the developers wonder what players are doing with their characters and ask: Are you okay?
