Baldurs Gate 3 is 0 off and still the best Black Friday gaming deal
With Baldur’s Gate 3, you get what you pay for — and more!
You won’t find Baldur’s Gate 3 on sale this Black Friday. And yet, we believe it’s still one of the best video game deals this holiday season. Across the Polygon team, we’ve collectively put hundreds — if not thousands — of hours into the CRPG. Considering the current bleak forecast for big video game releases in 2024, we expect to invest a few thousand more.
If you’ve somehow resisted the charms of Baldur’s Gate 3 to this point, you presumably have a few questions before making a purchase. Is Baldur’s Gate 3 really that good? Is it too complex for someone new to the genre? Do I need experience with D&D?
Yes. No. Definitely not. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the perfect entry point for role-playing games broadly and Dungeons & Dragons specifically. On our team, it has consumed the lives of our most weathered gamers and gaming-dabblers alike.
Here are a few stories we’ve published over the past couple of months to give you an idea of what the game (and its community) has to offer:
- Help! My partner accidentally had clown sex (in Baldur’s Gate 3)
- I’ll miss the Baldur’s Gate 3 where Gale was a horny disaster man
- The best Baldur’s Gate gifts
- The best ‘class’ in Baldur’s Gate 3 is ‘barrelmancer’
- Astarion’s charms convinced me to play Baldur’s Gate 3
- The Baldur’s Gate 3 cast love their characters so much that they made them playlists
- If you’re not talking to animals in Baldur’s Gate 3, what even is the point?
- You’ll never play every part of Baldur’s Gate 3 — that’s where TikTok comes in
- Baldur’s Gate 3 feels tailor-made for its boisterous fandom
- The Baldur’s Gate 3 cast love their characters so much that they made them playlists
- Baldur’s Gate 3 gets even better when you make a new character
- We brought a third into our marriage and it’s Astarion
Yes, Baldur’s Gate 3 is full price this Black Friday, but in terms of value, this game has more ideas, more ambition, and for the time-concerned, more hours of entertainment than 99% of its contemporaries. I suppose it’s not a surprise then that Baldur’s Gate 3’s developers would take the Nintendo approach of making games so good, you don’t need to put them on sale.