7. Baldur's Gate 3 – the iconic RPG is back. The best video games coming in 2022

Darius Matusiak

7. Baldur's Gate 3 – the iconic RPG is back

  1. Release date: 2022
  2. Genre: isometric RPG
  3. Developer: Larian Studios
  4. Platform: PC Windows

What will Baldur's Gate 3 be about?

This is the third installment of the iconic RPG series, launched in the 1990s. by BioWare studio. One hundred years after the events of the Throne of Bhaal , Baldur's Gate becomes the site of the raid of the Illithid Mind Raiders who kidnap the inhabitants to infect them and eventually turn them into similar creatures. This is how our hero gets infected. After escaping the kidnappers, he not only tries to find a cure for this ailment, but most of all discovers that the virus gives him special abilities unavailable to ordinary people. How will his story end?

Why are we waiting?

Baldur's Gate is a legendary and one of the best, most iconic RPGs that have appeared on computer screens. It's no wonder then that the sequel is attracting a lot of attention. For veterans, it is a way to make a nostalgic trip to a land where they spent a lot of time many years ago, for novices – an opportunity to plunge into an extraordinary world that every RPG fan should know. There is another studio behind the sequel, but they are the creators of the recognized Divinity series, following a rather similar formula as the one upon which Baldur's Gate is based. So it can be assumed that they know what they are doing and they will not spoil the atmosphere of the original.

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Darius Matusiak

Author: Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.