Baldur’s Gate 3 is an incredible role-playing game experience, a gift for RPG fans and a wonderful introduction to the genre for newcomers. It’s got everything a good RPG needs: memorable characters, exciting, strategic battles, and a textured world to get lost in as your party goes questing across the map. It’s a showcase for just how good RPGs are when they really connect, and fortunately for us, there’s plenty more where that came from.

So, in the event that Baldur’s Gate 3 has inspired you to explore the genre further, here’s a list of games that similarly nail the RPG experience in ways that will leave you itching to get back to the character you’ve created — provided, of course, you didn’t immediately roll a new one to take into Baldur’s Gate 3 all over again.

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

About the level of writing I've come to expect from a listicle, but I take particular issue with the fact that they list Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 as separate items but clump the three Dragon Age games together into one, when the Dragon Age games have much more variation between each game than the POE games do.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that blanket rec for Dragon Age is kind of not great, especially since I don't think 2 in particular is very similar to BG.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I haven't played 3, but yeah I'd agree with that. DA:O is basically the source of the formula used to make BG3