Baldur’s Gate 3’s First Weekend Stats Reveal A Lot Of Players Failed To Romance Astarion

Baldur’s Gate 3 is off to a pretty great start in terms of its, thus far, glowing reception and player engagement. Developer Larian Studios has released a fun infographic accumulating player data gathered from the game’s first weekend, and the results are a mix of surprising, amusing, and flat-out staggering.

You can view the fun infographic in the embedded tweet above, but we’ve summarized each bullet point below:

• 368 players completed the game on the first weekend.
• Over 93% rolled their own custom character
• The players spent an average of 88 years creating characters
• Character creation takes an average of one hour for nearly 10%.
• Gale has been selected as the top Origin Character by 27,784 users.
• Gale is the seventh cause of death in players
• Paladins were the top choice of class for over 200K gamers
• Half-Elfs were the top race selection for more than 250K players. (Humans came in second and Elfs third, just barely edged out by Humans).
• Astarion has rejected almost 100,000 players
• On Sunday, when the game was at its peak (815,000 concurrent players), one NPC fell into a deep chasm.
• In 2012, friendly fire caused 12% deaths among players
• 65.1% of players saved Emerald Grove
• Scratch is a pet that has been pampered over 750,000 time
• The players spoke with over 1,400,000 bodies and more than 2,400,000 animals
• The players have played for at least 10,000,000 (over 1225 years).

Baldur’s Gate 3 is clearly a hit with many gamers. We are eager to see how the statistics change over time. Especially when the PlayStation 5 launch next month takes place. Keep an eye on Game Informer to see our upcoming review of Baldur’s Gate 3. Let us know your thoughts in the comments!