That’s Larian saying to WotC: your system sucks for video game.
BG3 87% positive reviews in EA. Solasta 93%. (Steam)
Both unpolished and somehow expensive games as they are in the early access, so we’re not comparing a finished game against an unfinished game.
Yes, I know that we’re not talking about the same audience. The fact is: Solasta customers are more happier with what they’ve got. That’s undeniable.
You are comparing 21,000+ reviews to <1000 reviews.
There is a whole legacy that the game has to live upto, not only does it have BG's legacy but it also has Larians legacy, as shown on the forums not everyone agrees they are fully compatible.
Smaller releases like Solasta are going to have more informed users generally with players who are more likely to consider it negative to simply skip getting it, so if the devs do a decent job (as it seems they have on Solasta) then it should have quite a strong positive rating. If Solasta saw the player numbers that BG3 had, I would expect it to also see a hit to it's rating.
Heck a large portion of the positive reviews for Solasta are just to dunk on BG3 - I feel like that indicates at least some of these reviews are not quite as about Solasta as you would hope.
I'm not saying Solasta is bad or anything like that, I'm just saying that I think this comparison isn't quite as revealing about the situation as it may seem.
