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Baldur's Gate 3 is a story-rich RPG with turn-based combat and significant player choice. Released in 2023, it boasts 740,807 Steam reviews with a 97% positive rating. Larian Studios self-published this title.
Overview
Baldur's Gate 3 is a 2023 Adventure game developed by Larian Studios and published by Larian Studios. On Steam it has gathered 741,766 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer Larian Studios with publisher Larian Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 37.8 million to 88.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Baldur's Gate 3 can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
741,766
Positive
97%
Steam appid
1086940
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.037.8M to 88.3M
units (median: 63.1M)
≈ $1296.3M to $3024.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Baldur's Gate 3 at roughly 37.8 million to 88.3 million copies, with a median around 63.1 million, derived from its 741,766 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2160.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $33.00Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $33.00 to $59.99, averaging $54.80 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $33.00 on 2026-05-19.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
RPGCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterStory RichTurn-Based CombatDungeons & DragonsCRPGFantasyAdventureSexual ContentRomanceOnline Co-OpMultiplayerStrategySingleplayerCo-op CampaignNudityClass-BasedDark FantasyCombat
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Baldur's Gate 3 sold?
- indielist estimates Baldur's Gate 3 has sold between 37,830,066 and 88,270,154 units (median 63,050,110), derived from its 741,766 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Baldur's Gate 3?
- Baldur's Gate 3 was developed by Larian Studios and published by Larian Studios.
- When was Baldur's Gate 3 released?
- Baldur's Gate 3 was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Baldur's Gate 3 have on Steam?
- Baldur's Gate 3 has 741,766 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Baldur's Gate 3 within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Larian Studios's other releases and Larian Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Baldur's Gate 3 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Baldur's Gate 3 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.