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Baldur's Gate 3 quickly became one of my favourite games and is one of the best ones I ever played.

In no other single player game in recent history have I invested so many hours into. Started playing it during Early Access, however not on Steam, and due to it have another 125 hours not accounted for here. Usually, no matter how much I enjoy the game, I just play games once (exceptions are games which require multiple playthroughs) and playing anything more than that just gets really tedious and a chore to me. This game managed to bypass that. I am doing several separate playthroughs and having so much fun in every single one because of the sheer amount of varied content it contains as well as all the ways combat can be resolved, you could say only your imagination is the limit. There is just so much to experience.

I have not played first two Baldur's Gate games, what I had played was Larians' Divinity: Original Sin 2 which saying I enjoyed it is an understatement (still can not get some of the music there out of my head and I might slightly prefer it over music in this game, however incredible it is) and is a main reason why I started the third part. I was not at all disappointed. Game more than delivered and largely expanded on almost everything good DOS 2 did.
You can enjoy this game without having any prior experience with the series. There are characters appearing from previous entries, some even can be your companions. There is some mention of events that transpired, so having prior knowledge is a bonus, but it's nothing major and you will not have missed much otherwise.

First time I started the game, I just spent a few hours in the character creator, partly due to trying to create a perfect character, partly deciding which class to pick and how I wanted to play and partly just listening to its amazing music. In all this time I still did not get to experience every class, subclass and content hidden behind them. Not only do classes provide different experience concerning combat, they also give you special prompts in dialog (same as races), so for example sorcerer might be all "I am magic incarnate and you measly creatures cannot contain me!" while also taking every opportunity to tease wizards; as a paladin people might ask you to judge criminals; as a bard you can just take a break from adventuring, pick your stage and perform music (you can pick it as a feat for other non bard classes, but it will take a while), nearby characters will come nearby and listen to you and even give you gold, it is one of the ways to make gold (however excruciatingly slow one), if your really wanted to you could make your whole party being proficient with instruments and create a band and you can actually hear all the different instruments used by them.

There is so many routes you can take your character on. On one hand you can be a hero trying to protect innocents, fighting evil, preventing bad guys from their goals, helping everyone as much as possible, not wanting to do anything with mind flayers, while on the other you can be the polar opposite, you can be like the ultimate evil one, you can betray, steal, kill and do things that will leave even the games' evil characters dumbfounded. You can also be anything in between. Game is written so well that no matter the path you take it is fully fledged and makes sense. In most games doing evil things and picking evil choices is just you being rude towards other people and feels really bad picking them, here there is a certain excitement to them, they are more complex and it is like you are experiencing another layer of the game you were not even aware of.
I think Dark Urge is the best way to play the game if you are mostly interested in the story of the game, resisting it or not, there is so much content connected to it you otherwise miss about the story and so many little bits and pieces that suddenly make sense.

Game is consisting of three chapters. Each chapter has multiple zones connected to it with a plethora of content. They are all closely interwoven, meaning that saying something while in a dialog to character in chapter one will have consequences with that character in chapter three. Saving someone in chapter one may just see that character in chapter two willing to help you with something you have a need for, or you might just find that character in the last chapter while exploring houses, or suppose you did not save them in chapter one or even killed them, you may just find their relatives in the last chapter wondering what happened to them. Or some of them might help you and make things easier for you. You might just get quests and items you otherwise would not, but you might also miss alternate routes. There is so much content it is impossible to see everything in just one playthrough, or even several.

Saying that, first and second chapter are as close to perfection as they come while i feel like the last, third chapter of the game is the weakest point of this game. Compared to first two it just feels like it missing something, even though it is filled with content there is a certain emptiness to it. It just feels like it needed a bit more time, for example there is ton of npcs and you can speak with most, however you will just get their one line and that will be the end of it, I understand not every npc could get a full on life story and dialog, but I never felt like this with them in earlier chapters, they are just missing something.
That said, chapter also has many positives, I particularly like how you get a base camp in a rough part of the city, but if you want to pay you can get yourself a whole floor in a tavern and use that as a camp instead. You can rob a bank, help a necromancer (or not), meet zombies (and help them instead), shapeshifters, vampires, obscene cults, even print your own version of towns newspapers with you in it and read them the next day...

I seriously can not recommend this game enough. If you like games, try this one. If you do not like games, try this one.
Rarely did a game deserve a 10/10 more than this one.

You should consider yourself lucky this game is no longer available.
My experience with it has to be one of the worst I ever had with any game.

When you try launching it, first thing you get is a screen telling you "If game is not launching please look for help in the game forum" which was already a red flag.. especially as game indeed was not launching, so i went to the game forum and found a solution which required me to put the game into beta. That did help with it, though whether I should be happy about being able to actually play it or not is another question altogether.
I started a new game and I was instantly on day 6, not sure if that was intended, but if yes, there was little to no explanation why you just skipped so many days, felt like you were just thrown in the midst of things happening, which some games have done well, but this is anything but.
Art felt really low effort, writing was weak and makes it extremely hard focusing on it or really caring at all about reading it or the story which as this game claims to be a visual novel is a huge issue.
Nothing is explained well; UI looks and feels so bad that it alone just makes me want to uninstall the game.

Do not waste your time on this one, there are infinite numbers of better games out there.
Overall score 1/10.

Great Star Wars game.

Great point & click game with a very dark atmosphere.

Very fun survival horror game. Starts a bit slow. Atmosphere was exceptionally well done, it was just what I wanted and expected out of it. Had a great time collecting all the achievements, even though it requires multiple playthroughs game never gets dull or annoying. DLC with extra content is free and includes achievements which are a bit more difficult than in the base game, but nonetheless doable.

100% the game. I would recommend it if you are into The Expanse series and like Drummer, but as a Telltale game it's a bit eh. Most of the episodes feel really slow as you constantly walk around searching for collectibles which most of just don't matter other than for the achievement, I feel like game is seriously lacking on the cinematic scenes which for me is kind of the point of a Telltale game :D Graphics and voice acting were really great. It is a very easy 100%, only minus is that it requires you to buy the DLC.

Full run takes about 3.5 hours, unfortunately it has a game breaking bug where you just get stuck inside a room and all interactive objects disappear, reloading doesn't work, so you either had a backup save or you have to restart the game and hope it doesn't happen again, not sure why they didn't fix it yet as I see a lot of people encountered the bug, including me.

That aside it's a nice little detective game, lots of puzzles that require thinking and paying attention to what's happening in the story, finding clues, decent dialogs with great voice acting, story itself is kind of, well, lets say not making a lot of sense :D My favourite thing was the comic look of the game. I'm a bit disappointed it doesn't have achievements, but alas.

Overall a decent short game I'd recommend, but only if they ever fix the bug.

Great game.

10/10

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