Not only have more than half of players not beaten the first act of Baldur’s Gate 3 but almost 10% haven’t even completed the tutorial.
When someone says they’ve played a video game, that could mean almost anything. They might have spent half an hour getting the gist of a multiplayer game or they might have spent 200 hours looking for every last secret in an open world title.
Or they could’ve spent good money on a massive role-player like Baldur’s Gate 3 and yet only got halfway through the first act, which seems to be the case for 50.7% of players of the PC version.
By examining the achievements on Steam it’s possible to get a very accurate picture of how far people have got in the game and it seems for many they’ve barely even turned the game on.
In fact, while 64.2% of players have never beaten Act 3 and only 17.6% have completed the whole game, a not inconsiderable 9.3% of player has never even got to the end of the tutorial.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a long and difficult game, so not beating it is understandable, but to not even get to the end of the tutorial suggests that the game turned out to be something a significant number of people were not expecting.
That’s perhaps understandable given what an unexpected hit the game was and it’s more than likely a number bought it assuming it was an action title, or at least not as hardcore as it is.
Except, none of this is actually that surprising and it’s fairly normal for most people not to beat mainstream action games, let alone hardcore role-players.
It’s obvious from looking through the achievements on Steam that the majority of people never beat any game they play (Act 1 had a less than 10% completion rate back in August) and often only spend a few hours on it at most.
The question that cannot be answered by stats though is why, which is going to have a multitude of answers. The most common though, apart from the game not being what you expected, is simply time.
As publishers are only gradually beginning to appreciate, the reason things like subscription services and live service titles are not turning out to be the surefire hits they expected is because people just don’t have enough time for everything… and that goes for award-wining games like Baldur’s Gate 3 as well.
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