The critically acclaimed and unashamedly queer fantasy RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 celebrated its one-year anniversary this week, and developer Larian Studios are partaking in the excitement by sharing loads of hilarious community data with fans. Some spoilers ahead. “It’s been a year since Baldur’s Gate 3 was released, and you know what we’ve realised?” asked the game’s official Twitter/X account .
“Over a quarter of you can’t be trusted to not pick a fight with a djinni, and a surprising amount of you enjoy bear sex and tentacles. Who’d have thought?” Of most interest to fans of the games were the romance stats, which Larian shared with delight. The 15 million-person playerbase has collectively administered over 75 million kisses to their digital companions, with God’s favourite princess Shadowheart (winner of Best LGBTQ+ Character at the Gayming Awards ) firmly in the lead at 27 million kisses.
It seems she’s the most popular character to romance by far, with 48.8% of players experiencing her final romance scene. Larian also shared some more.
.. interesting romance stats.
Turns out 658,000 players had sex with the druid Halsin, and almost 200,000 of those people chose to do so in his much-advertised bear form. Meanwhile, 1.1 million players chose to get down and dirty with the mind flayer known as the Emperor; 63% of those players chose a human form for the encounter, while 37% took him in his true form, tentacles and all.
.. Other interesting statistics in.