I don't see Baldur's Gate 3 praised enough for it's couch co-op support. I completed a full playthrough with my partner and it served as her first introduction to CRPGs and has unfortunately set the bar too high. It was really nice for us to be considered different full characters in a game especially when you're both sat next to each other, and being turn based means the pace is chill (mostly) for hanging out and roleplaying as a team!! The devs clearly took great care to allow for independence in decisions and character building together and bouncing off of each other, and I was extremely impressed our separate choices were reflected in the epilogue!

Co-op praise aside, the game will probably hook you from the word and puts you on a rollercoaster that will at minimum take you 60 hours to get through most of the content you feel you want to see. Fantastically written characters and really endears you to them. I will make no attempt to hide the fact that we played through on Easy/Story and still found it challenging enough at times to keep us on the edge of our seats in high stakes combat.

Highly highly recommended as a singleplayer campaign, but also as a game to play if you have yourself a dedicated RPG partner who is willing to commit the time to a campaign with you, which much like real DnD is the hardest part of the whole thing.

Reviewed on May 11, 2024


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