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Happy birthday, gang!
Baldur's Gate 3 turns two - hard to believe, isn't it?

It feels like only yesterday we were streaming our launch-day Panel From Hell from a cathedral in Ghent and earning a TikTok ban in the process for our druidic love crimes.

But time flies. Two years later, Baldur’s Gate 3 has grown into something far beyond what we could have ever imagined back then - it’s become a shared universe shaped just as much by your imaginations as ours. You've embraced the characters, rewritten the rules, and made the world your own - and it’s been a joy to watch.

Swen’s shared words couldn’t ring more true, and while we’ll spare you our soppy sentimentality, because of Baldur’s Gate 3 and your love for the game, we can now bring you a whole new craziness that we hope you will love just as much.
So let’s celebrate the story so far with the only thing more powerful than magic: cold, hard stats.

2 Years of Baldur’s Gate 3

Since the introduction of mod support in September 2024, you’ve uploaded over 8,500 mods to mod.io and hit 265 MILLION mod downloads (of which over 248,000 are Withers Big Naturals, by the way - we just thought you’d like to know).

We love seeing what you create, and the recent Modathon held by The BG3 Modding Community last month was no exception.



The month-long community-run modding event saw 85 mod authors create over 160 new mods that have been downloaded over 150,000 times! Whether you’ve been hankering for an ability that lets youfeed Gale his own magically enchanted underwear, or a pair of wearable whittled duck earrings[/u], you can check out the full list of mods available in-game by clicking here or filtering the search with the Modathon filter option. A big congratulations to everyone involved, from the organisation to the achievements awarded!

You’ve raised the bar with every mod, and we want to match that energy. That’s why we’re working on expanding the official toolkit to give you even more freedom. More on that soon! In the meantime, tag us in your creations @larianstudios and share your creations with us in the official [u]Larian Studios Discord server!

Baldur’s Gate 3 In Numbers

After celebrating the big numbers last year, we’re sharing some of the smaller stats, because honestly, does size really matter? Check out the rare achievements and the even rarer choices that you’ve been making in-game.

With the way you keep asking about goblin romance, we’d have expected more of you to rescue Sazza from all her predicaments, just saying.

Approach with caution, there may be spoilers ahead!





Of the half a million masochists brave heroes who finished the game in Honour Mode, a few of you decided to go about it in creative ways:



We released Patch 8 (The Final Patch) in April this year, bringing you both cross-play, a photo mode, and 12 new subclasses, which we can only assume sparked many an argument between friends about whether Shadowheart gives Life Cleric or Death Cleric vibes (turns out the results are balanced, like all things in life and death).







Photo Mode Creations

We’re happy to see you’ve used your new tools for good, evil, rabbits, and butts. There were too many creations for us to show off, but we still wanted to share our recent favourites!

Missed out on what was included in BG3’s Final Patch? Check it out over here!


Now that’s a real Dragonborn. Posted to Reddit by Rhoken

The creation of a very bad dragon. Posed to X by MoaksMg


Contemplating whether tentacles would be worth it. Posted to Tumblr by ruby-cloud


Just out of reach. Posted to the Larian Studios Discord Server by Tauri


Hey look, it’s the Lord of Bones. Posted to Reddit by a user who has requested to remain anonymous, how very mysterious.


Daughter of Darkness. Posted to X by zzenerva


A weary respite. Posted to the Larian Studios Discord Server by swat1793


Just a baby. Posted to the Larian Studios Discord Server by chaosfahrer

Larian Streams

Have you ever wondered how we at Larian would go about playing our very own Dark Urge?

Well, wonder no further, you’re cordially invited to take up the role of the devil on Aoife Wilson’s shoulder, ask our dev guests questions about their creative processes, and relive the chaotic vibes of Panel From Hell.

Catch up on what we’ve been up to so far by watching the video below!



Join us every Wednesday at 2pm BST as we try to survive, maim, and kiss our way to Baldur’s Gate:

Larian at PAX West

And last but not least: we’re returning to PAX West this September (Seattle, we love to see you), complete with Larian castle, merchandise, cosplaying party, and Baldur’s Gate 3 stations and Divinity Original Sin: The Boardgame demos!

When: Aug 29 – Sept 1, 2025

Where: Seattle Convention Center (Arch Building & Summit Building)

Swing by and say hi!



We hope to see you there! Until then, look after yourselves and we’ll talk soon.

Congratulations. I'm still playing it, since EA. 2700+ hrs. spent in this game so far.

Same! Playing since early access, 1000 hours in pc full build and another 1000 in playstation full build, no mods used yet and still play it often to this day!
I hope one day the Pyroquickness Hat will work again though... lol.

Hi Salo. I don't want to play "party pooper", but I do have a question, and since I can't send a PM to ask it, let me just do it here.

You rightly boast about the huge amount of work that enthousiast modders have spent to keep the game fresh, flexible and replayable. So here I am puzzled why one particular and popular mod seems to be off the radar as far as allowance for console is concerned.

I am particularly referring to the mod "Big Busty Body" made by Sindae ( https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/big-big-body#description ) and available on PC since 24 september 2024. When all windows mods on mod.io are listed in order of "highest rated", this mod stands at position 30 ! with nearly 380K downlads.

Boobed Withers, who you bring to our attention, stands 10 positions lower with its 255K downloads.

Now I realize everyone has their preferred mod and wants them to go to console as soon as possible, and I realize that there's a queue and it takes time.

So, I finally come to the point. Looking at the "highest rating" ranked mods, this one is a "hole" with respect to console availability. The few others that are missing in, say the first 150 or so ranked, cannot be released on console because of technical issues, that is clear. But this is not the case for number 30, who's been sitting there for almost one year now, completely ignored.

I support this author on Patreon, and know that she has reached out to Larian several times by now to ask if someone had already looked at the mod and if there was a problem with it. But she gets no answer. Sometimes just the link to the rules. So not only is this mod skipped over, when ranked by user rating and time of release, but the curators do not even care about this rather remarkable case, or seem not to realize that it is not a great thing for the creator to be left in the dark like this.

So would it be possible for someone from your community to just send a message to the author telling her that she must no longer wait because for some reason it will never be released to console, or, we've not looked at it yet, but then give some kind of explanation why it is systematically skipped over, despite its high status in the rating and long waittime

Sorry for the long rant, but Sindae is quite a popular modder, also on nexus, and many people are scratching their head about this strange event. It does seem very "un-Larian"-like IMO.

You are amazing and we LOVE this game forever!

Some statistics from me. Since EA (3250.3k hours), I'm still dithering and dabbling exclusively at Act 1 (without Rosymorn Monastery Trail).

I'm glad that Patch 8 was the last major (mod-breaking) Patch and that we can now hopefully enjoy the “enhanced” gameplay without constant Patch interruptions. We should now support the mod community, e.g. here: Visible Shields Mod Thread

Happy anniversary. I'm still playing the game and love it since I started early access in 2020.