One Year On and ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’s Honour Mode Has Claimed More Than One Million Souls
More people have had sex with Halsin in bear form than have beaten Baldur’s Gate 3 on Honour Mode, and other surprising numbers one year on.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is celebrating its 1st anniversary release with a reveal of some surprising numbers from Larian Studios. It turns out Honour Mode remains the ultimate challenge, with fewer people having beaten the game’s hardest mode than have had sex with a hot Elf druid transformed into a literal bear. And that’s just one conclusion you can draw from the information.
Curious how many people decided to play an Elf Rogue or just how deviant you are for deciding to bone down with the Emperor? Larian has revealed these details and more as part of Baldur’s Gate 3’s first anniversary celebration.
Now you can find out that you aren’t alone, even a little, in becoming a wheel of cheese. But, did you find one ending that only 34 people across the millions of BG3 playthroughs have found?
The Players are THIRSTY and Other Fun Facts About Baldur’s Gate 3
Over on Twitter, Larian Studios posted a series of infographics that outlined the peculiar tendencies of the Baldur’s Gate 3 playerbase. For instance, did you know that 1.9 million players were transformed into a cheese wheel? Almost as many as those who freed Us, the newborn Intellect Devourer, from the Colony. Did you know you could? I didn’t, but now I’ve got reason to play through again.
If you even attempted Honour Mode, it seems like you’ve got some serious bragging rights to your name. More than one million playthroughs have ended in defeat (which is still a small number considering the size of BG3’s playerbase).
And if you actually succeeded at Honour Mode? You are in rare company. A small, small percentage of players (something like 1.6%) have managed to beat the game on Honour Mode: only 141,660 players have done it. Some might even have done it more than once.
Okay but for the stats that real gamers are interested in: Shadowheart has gotten the most kisses. The raven-haired elf who is god’s favorite princess is also the playerbase’s favorite princess, walking away with 27 million kisses. Meanwhile Astarion isn’t far behind with 15 million kisses for the twinky elf vampire. What is surprising is that around a third of the playerbase are honest about their deepest desires: some 30% of players chose to have sex with Halsin as a bear, and 37% put the Emperor’s Mind Flayer tentacles to uh… good use. That’s a total of almost 600,000 players who have really Dungeoned some Dragons.
How popular was your class choice? One year out, and still 93% of players have gone with the Custom Avatar, meaning there’s a whole lot of Tavs out there. Most of whom are Paladins or Elves of some stripe or another. But Astarion and Gale are the most popular Origin Characters, with Shadowheart trailing behind. Not surprising. Can’t kiss Shadowheart if you are Shadowheart.
But perhaps most interestingly of all are the number of endings players have explored. There is, apparently, an ending for Lae’zel that is so rare, only a grand total of 34 players have unlocked it. 34 out of the millions of players! Apparently you can get Vlaakith to reject your Ascension (presumably by keeping Orpheus alive) and then have the option to end it all. But you’d have to actually be playing Lae’zel in the first place, and most people won’t.
You can find even more fun facts over at Larian’s thread.
Guess it’s time to start another playthrough. Maybe try to find an even rarer ending!
