Baldur's Gate 3 smashes Steam record for biggest CRPG and turn-based game ever

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Baldur's Gate 3 continues its frighteningly rapid ascent to the top of the Steam charts

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Baldur's Gate 3 has continued setting new records on Steam in the wake of its massively successful launch, with its latest peak concurrent player count beating that of every other CRPG and turn-based game by a large margin.

As is being discussed on Reddit, that places Baldur's Gate 3's highest concurrent player peak well above that of the next highest turn-based game, Dota Underlords, at 202,334 peak concurrent, and that's with the reach of it being more of an auto-battler. In the CRPG category, Larian's Divinity Original Sin 2 has the next-highest peak concurrent player count at 93,701 - a respectable figure that's still hundreds of thousands lower than Baldur's Gate 3's. 

Putting aside the huge caveat that Steam itself has become exponentially bigger in recent years and thus will naturally bring in more players to newer games, it's still safe to call Baldur's Gate 3 a roaring success on PC, and it's shaping up to be a big hit on PS5 when it launches there on September 6. 

If you're a new fan checking out the game without a ton of knowledge of the series, here's everything you need to know about D&D before playing Baldur's Gate 3.

Jordan Gerblick
Jordan Gerblick

After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.