How to get the Baldur's Gate 3 epilogue

(Image credit: Larian)

The Baldur’s Gate 3 epilogue is a fantastic coda to the game, giving you a chance to give your long last pals a wonderful send-off. It was added in Patch 5 along with honour mode, a new Baldur’s Gate 3 difficulty, and is a wonderfully refreshing moment after all the horrors that your party has endured.

To see the epilogue, you’ll need to either load into an old save or keep playing your current one. This guide can’t really be spoiler-free due to its very nature, but we hope that it helps you witness one of the best goodbyes in gaming.

How to trigger the Baldur's Gate 3 epilogue

To trigger the BG3 epilogue scene, load into a save file that takes place either before, during, or immediately after the fight against the Netherbrain. You must choose to destroy the brain, or you won't get the epilogue. If you've started a new game since Patch 5, you don't need to do anything other than complete the game.

When does the epilogue happen in Baldur's Gate 3?

Baldur's Gate 3 bard — (Image credit: Larian)

The Baldur's Gate 3 epilogue happens right after the pier sequence at the end of the game, once the Netherbrain has been destroyed.

There is a moment at the end of BG3 where you make a crucial choice to either dominate or destroy the Netherbrain, and a lot of people might have saved beforehand to see what happens either way. Choosing to dominate the brain will not give you the happy epilogue (quelle surprise), but by destroying it, you will leave all your companions and the rest of the world alive to join you at a special party just before the credits roll.

The game used to end with a monologue from Withers (sometimes with BG3's Raphael interjecting, if you gave him the Crown of Karsus), but the new epilogue party scene seems here to stay for all future and past playthroughs.

You might also get to see the epilogue by loading into a save from the pier scene itself, post-Netherbrain final battle, but this caused some texture dropout and other performance issues when we tested it. Still, at least you now know what to look out for if you either want to reload a finished game to see the finale, or power through your current one!

Jasmine is a Senior Staff Writer at GamesRadar+. Raised in Hong Kong and having graduated with an English Literature degree from Queen Mary, University of London, she began her journalism career as a freelancer with TheGamer and Tech Radar Gaming before joining GR+ full-time in 2023. She now focuses predominantly on features content for GamesRadar+, attending game previews, and key international conferences such as Gamescom and Digital Dragons in between regular interviews, opinion pieces, and the occasional stint with the news or guides teams. In her spare time, you'll likely find Jasmine challenging her friends to a Resident Evil 2 speedrun, purchasing another book she's unlikely to read, or complaining about the weather.

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