{"slug": "baldur-s-gate-3", "name": "Baldur's Gate 3", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 2.294, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-19", "latest": "2026-09-15", "why": "Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me", "kind": "game", "icon": true, "domain": "larian.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://baldursgate3.game/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Baldur's Gate 3"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 769376274, "item_id": 48086017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086017", "by": "frostbyrne", "date": "2026-05-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me", "excerpt": "Greetings! I've been working on something in the vein of a indie game for a little over a year now. It has been a passion project, but I'm starting to come around on showing it to people. I am a big fan of Telltale style narrative games. I think Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me. Taking that branching dialogue and freedom of choice, and tacking it on to a fun combat system was just everything.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)"}, {"id": 764012161, "item_id": 47750760, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750760", "by": "frostbyrne", "date": "2026-04-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation", "excerpt": "Greetings! I've been working on something in the vein of GTRPGs for a little over a year now. It has been a passion project, but I'm starting to come around on showing it to people. I am a big fan of Telltale style narrative games. I think Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me. Taking that branching dialogue and freedom of choice, and tacking it on to a fun combat system was just everything. When ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"}, {"id": 763108448, "item_id": 47694278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694278", "by": "mkjs", "date": "2026-04-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I wouldn't really say it was niche until BG3 though", "excerpt": "Nice to see people discovering these games. I wouldn't really say it was niche until BG3 though, there were plenty of highly acclaimed games long before that. You might like this blog, the author plays through CRPGs in chronological order. Currently they're at the mid 90s. https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?"}, {"id": 735790400, "item_id": 45986900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986900", "by": "jakebasile", "date": "2025-11-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's hard to go wrong with Baldur's Gate 3", "excerpt": "I keep meaning to go and play the Underworld games, since I love the subgenre they pioneered (Immersive Sim). I'll get around to it... one day. It's like you say, not exactly the same, but for CRPGs it's hard to go wrong with Baldur's Gate 3. It's similar enough to later Ultima in some ways that it might scratch the itch.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ultima VII Revisited"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 743419968, "item_id": 46463748, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463748", "by": "ThatPlayer", "date": "2026-01-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "with similar Nvidia GPU issues and a fix.", "excerpt": "Those are mostly reports for the Windows build of Baldur's Gate 3, running through Proton. He's talking about the newer Linux native build of the game from 3 months ago. There's a few reports there for the native version of the game: https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940#9GT638Fuyx , with similar Nvidia GPU issues and a fix.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": [], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700661", "title": "Steam Frame starts at $1059", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993", "title": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741527", "title": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? 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This is the top-10 from https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/US, half of them are collecting data to share (and one to sell) to advertisers. The fact that this is surprising you is kind of the point, Valve's not providing enough transparency or doing enough (any?) policing of this. You won't even find the disclosures in the EULAs, at best they link to a separate p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Steam Frame starts at $1059"}, {"id": 769376274, "item_id": 48086017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086017", "by": "frostbyrne", "date": "2026-05-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me", "excerpt": "Greetings! I've been working on something in the vein of a indie game for a little over a year now. It has been a passion project, but I'm starting to come around on showing it to people. I am a big fan of Telltale style narrative games. 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Currently they're at the mid 90s. https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?"}, {"id": 748833524, "item_id": 46802095, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802095", "by": "some_random", "date": "2026-01-28", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "BG3 also seems to require a custom Proton and tweaked settings for some people", "excerpt": "Rust on Linux only works for Linux based servers https://www.protondb.com/app/252490 Apex Legend used to work but doesn't anymore (still marked Silver) https://www.protondb.com/app/1172470 Delta Force used to work but also doesn't anymore (still marked Bronze), people are tinkering with config files but nothing seems to work https://www.protondb.com/app/2507950 NARAKA: BLADEPOINT is working but requires custom Proton", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 743419968, "item_id": 46463748, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463748", "by": "ThatPlayer", "date": "2026-01-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "with similar Nvidia GPU issues and a fix.", "excerpt": "Those are mostly reports for the Windows build of Baldur's Gate 3, running through Proton. He's talking about the newer Linux native build of the game from 3 months ago. There's a few reports there for the native version of the game: https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940#9GT638Fuyx , with similar Nvidia GPU issues and a fix.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it"}, {"id": 735790400, "item_id": 45986900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986900", "by": "jakebasile", "date": "2025-11-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's hard to go wrong with Baldur's Gate 3", "excerpt": "I keep meaning to go and play the Underworld games, since I love the subgenre they pioneered (Immersive Sim). I'll get around to it... one day. It's like you say, not exactly the same, but for CRPGs it's hard to go wrong with Baldur's Gate 3. It's similar enough to later Ultima in some ways that it might scratch the itch.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ultima VII Revisited"}]}