News Baldur's Gate 3 Reveals Utterly Ridiculous Player Stats for One Year Anniversary

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If you can believe it, it's (almost) been one whole year since the release of Baldur's Gate 3 on PS5. Crazy! But you know what's even crazier? The player-related stats that developer Larian Studios has just unleashed upon the world. Needless to say, they make for a richly entertaining read.

Please note that spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 lie ahead.

Let's start with the character creation stuff, which isn't all that surprising, but still throws up some pretty eye-opening numbers.

• Over 93% of players chose to make their own character
• 15% of players chose Dark Urge
• Astarion is the most popular origin character to play as (chosen 1.21 million times)
• Gale is second (chosen 1.20 million times)
• Shadowheart is third (chosen 0.86 million times)
• Paladin is the most popular class, followed by Sorcerer, Fighter, Barbarian, Rogue, Warlock, Bard, Wizard, Monk, Druid, Ranger, and finally Cleric
• Elf is the most popular race, followed by Half-Elf, Human, Tiefling, Drow, Dragonborn, Half-Orc, Githyanki, Dwarf, Gnome, and finally Halfling

Next, we've got companion data. Again, there's nothing too surprising here, but the stats still tell us a lot about Baldur's Gate 3's community...

• Shadowheart is the most kissed companion with 27 million kisses
• Astarion is second with 15 million kisses
• Out of all the possible companions, Minthara is the least loved, with only 169,937 kisses
• 32.5% of players spent the night with Shadowheart in Act 1
• 13.5% players slept with Karlach
• 15.6% of players slept alone
• A whopping 48.8% of players saw Shadowheart's final romance scene at the end of the game
• 17.6% of players took Karlach to dinner
• 12.9% of players held Lae'zel's hand (awww)
• 658,000 players had sex with Halsin (you know, the guy who can turn into a bear)
• 70% bedded him in his human form
• ... Which means 30% told him to turn into a bear
• 1.1 million players got, er, physical with The Emperor
• 63% told him to use his Guardian form
• 37% told him to keep the tentacles

And then there are all the mental gameplay stats, some of which have to be seen to be believed.

• 1.9 million players got turned into a cheese wheel at the circus
• Scratch the dog has been petted over 120 million times
• The owlbear cub has been petted over 41 million times (people like dogs better, we guess)
• 141,660 players at least tried to pet His Majesty the cat
• 1.8 million players decided to betray The Emperor
• 329,000 players somehow convinced Orpheus to become a mind flayer
• 3.3 million players killed the Netherbrain
• 200,000 of those Netherbrain deaths were caused by Gale going nuclear
• Just 141,660 players have beaten Honour Mode (very well done if you're one of them)
• 1,223,305 Honour Mode playthroughs have ended in a game over
• 76% of players who failed decided to delete the save and start over (impressive discipline)
• 24% continued the run via a custom playthrough (fair enough)

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Bonkers, eh? Baldur's Gate 3 has obviously been a bigger hit than anyone ever imagined — including Larian Studios itself — and a lot of these stats really help put things into perspective. One year later, and the RPG's impact is still being felt — and we can only assume that it'll continue to be measured against for years and years to come.

What do you think of these player stats? Did any of them make you do a double take? Tell us all about who you've been kissing in the comments section below.