Someone Has Beaten Baldur’s Gate 3 With the Worst Possible Ending for Everyone

A Baldur’s Gate 3 participant has simply shared their detailed notes from a playthrough of the sport wherein they tried to get the absolute worst story outcomes for each single character. All besides for Scratch the canine.

In a Reddit thread, u/Sparkism offered an in depth information to ruining the day of each single Baldur’s Gate 3 character systematically by means of all three acts. Surprisingly, that is extra complicated than it appears: whereas it could really feel like the easiest method to do that is to simply homicide everybody, some characters even have a greater time if sure different characters are useless, in order that they needed to get artistic to make issues as abysmal for everybody as doable.

Warning: Light spoilers for act one in every of Baldur’s Gate 3 are detailed beneath. Read on at your personal danger!

For occasion, Sparkism’s information recommends saving Oskar from the Zhentarim of their hideout. Him being alive performs an necessary function later in the sport, because it makes one other character depressing who would in any other case be pleased if he by no means comes dwelling. Similarly, whereas gamers are suggested to kill Karlach and Gale early on (or, by inaction, allow them to die), Astarion, Wyll, and Lae’zel have to be recruited to trigger additional distress down the line.

Other interactions are just a little extra apparent, although. Sparkism recommends smashing the bard Alfira’s lute, saving the Tiefling from the Bugbear murderer solely to throw her off a cliff, and tenting exterior the burning inn whereas everybody roasts to demise inside. It’s a fairly grim playthrough!

We do not need to spoil something farther in than that for those that are nonetheless working their approach by means of the sport, however suffice to say, Sparkism’s playthrough actually does go away everybody utterly sad. Many characters are useless after struggling their worst nightmares, whereas these left alive are caught cursed, depressing, and mourning varied losses.

Scratch and the Owlbear cub are wonderful, although

Notably, the information has gamers recruit each Scratch the canine and the Owlbear cub, after which mercifully spares them from any hurt the remainder of the run. After all, neither of them did something unsuitable ever. Everyone else in the sport, although, has sinned no less than as soon as and deserves retribution.

Sparkism’s run is a wonderful instance of the degree of participant freedom accessible in Baldur’s Gate 3, and it seems like much more could also be on the approach. A significant patch is deliberate for later this week that Larian says will repair efficiency points in addition to add in some beforehand unavailable content material for sure characters’ epilogues. This is all satisfiying since gamers have been complaining that characters similar to Minthara and Karlach have unsatisfying late-game tales.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is on its option to PS5 on September 6, with the Xbox Series X|S model coming someday later this 12 months. And for those who’d moderately have a nice playthrough than one the place you make everybody hate you, you’ll be able to try our listing of the most rewarding romances in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a narrative tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.