It might not have been the best kept secret in the world but now it’s ironclad official: Larian Studios, the creator of the superb Divinity: Original Sin role-playing games, is making Baldur’s Gate 3.
It’s been in development for a while – work was underway even before Divinity: Original Sin 2 shipped in September 2017 – but there’s no word on when Baldur’s Gate 3 will be released, and the only platforms Larian will talk about are PC and, wait for it, Google’s stream-dream, Stadia.
I learnt this talking to Larian founder and creative director Swen Vincke earlier this week. But first, below, the Baldur’s Gate 3 announcement trailer.
Here’s what you’re seeing: the city of Baldur’s Gate and the remnants of a bloody battle, and a member of the iconic Flaming Fists staggering through it. He’s not well, to put it mildly, and soon his body starts to mutate. It’s a grotesque process called ceremorphosis, which begins with a tadpole being inserted into the eye (omg puke) and then feeding off the host until it eventually grows and overwhelms it and… a mind flayer emerges.