New Baldur’s Gate 3 one year anniversary stats reveal widely unknown Dark Urge outcome

Baldur’s Gate 3 is officially a year old. Although it entered early access way back in 2020, the full release didn’t materalize until August 2023. Following its launch, BG3 went on to win game of the year and is adored by millions. It’s one of the greatest RPGs of all time, and Larian has shared more amusing Baldur’s Gate 3 player stats in celebration of its one year anniversary.

Although BG3 came out last year, it’s still one of the most exciting games of 2024 thanks to the highly-anticipated release of patch 7 and its mod toolkit. The RPG is still seeing 100,000 concurrent players on a daily basis on Steam, and we can only imagine the player count will increase even more once patch 7 is fully released in September. Not only will it launch the mod toolkit on PC, but it will also bring the ability to download mods on PS5 and Xbox.

We absolutely cannot wait to return to the world of Baldur’s Gate 3 once mods are out. There isn’t too much longer left to wait, and, for the time being, Larian has shared some new interesting player stats, including a widely unknown avoidable outcome for the Dark Urge.

New Baldur’s Gate 3 one year anniversary player stats

Larian has shared the following Baldur’s Gate 3 player stats in honor of the game’s one year anniversary:

• 1.9 million players were turned into a cheese wheel
• 3.5 million players paid a visit to some friendly dinosaurs
• 2 million players freed Us from the Colony
• At least 377,000 Dark Urges figured a way to spare Alfira and are now directly to blame for the proliferation of lute rock

The most surprising stat from all of the above is that you can actually spare Alfira as The Dark Urge. This is a widely unknown outcome as most have just accepted that her death was unavoidable as part of the Dark Urge storyline.

However, unbeknownst to millions as evidenced by the low figures, there is a way to spare Alfira. Per a guide shared on the game’s subreddit, you need to non-lethally knock her out before triggering her arrival at camp, and this will result in an NPC named Quill Grootslang taking her place.

Below are the rest of the interesting stats revealed by Larian:

• 141,600 players conquered Honor mode
• 1,223,305 Honor mode playthroughs ended in defeat
• 76% of Honor mode players honorably deleted their save
• 24% Honor mode players continued their adventure in Custom mode
• Top 3 origin characters as avatars:
  • Astarion – 1.21 million
  • Gale – 1.20 million
  • Astarion – 0.86 million
• 93% of players chose to play as a custom avatar, with 15% of those players picking Dark Urge
• Top class picks from most popular to least:
  • Paladain
  • Sorcerer
  • Fighter
  • Barbarian
  • Rogue
  • Warlock
  • Bard
  • Wizard
  • Monk
  • Druid
  • Ranger
  • Cleric
• Top race picks from most popular to least:
  • Elf
  • Half-Elf
  • Human
  • Tiefling
  • Drow
  • Dragonborn
  • Half-Orc
  • Githyanki
  • Dwarf
  • Gnome
  • Halfling
• Over 75 million companion kisses
  • 27 million kisses with Shadowheart
  • 15 million kisses with Astarion
  • Minthara comes last with 169,937 kisses
• In Act 1 celebration night, 32.5% players romanced Shadowheart, 13.5% players romanced Karlach, 15.6% players slept alone
• For Act 3, 48.8% players experienced Shadowheart’s final romance scene, 17.6% of players had a romanctic dinner with Karlach, 12.9% of players held hands with Lae’zel
• 658,000 players had sex with Halsin
  • 70% in human form
  • 30% in bear form
• 1.1 million players got down with the Emperor
  • 63% players chose Dream Guardian form
  • 37% discovered the pleasure of mind flayer tentacles
• Scratch was petted over 120 million times
• The Owlbear cub was petted 41 million times
• 141,660 players attempted to pet His Majesty
• 1,498 players hugged Good Gale goodbye at the Epilogue
• 1.1 million players hugged Halsin at the Epilogue
• 2,185 God Gales chose to transform Tara into a hairless cat
• 54,000 players petted Tara
• 1.8 million players betrayed the Emperor
• 329,000 players convinced Orpheus to live as a Mindflayer
• 3.3 million players killed the Netherbrain, 200,000 of those had Gale blow himself up
• 34 players playing as Lae’zel chose to kill themselves at the end of the game after Vlakkith rejected their ascension

You can find all of the above stats and graphics in the embedded baldursgate3 Twitter thread below:

It’s been a year since Baldur’s Gate 3 was released, and you know what we’ve realised?

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? pic.twitter.com/kU9fAH6tnZ

— Baldur's Gate 3 (@baldursgate3) August 7, 2024

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