The last main replace for Baldur’s Gate 3 launched final week, introducing cross-platform play, 12 new subclasses, and a great deal of different little tweaks and fixes. The launch of the long-awaited Patch 8 has led to a resurgence in recognition, with gamers flocking again to the sport to check out the brand new subclasses and play with mates on different platforms for the primary time. In the wake of Patch 8’s launch, Larian Studios founder and CEO and Swen Vincke says he is pleased with the trail the studio took to get the sport the place it’s now, and hopes that its success will assist Larian sort out its subsequent sport.
“Feeling good at present about the place we’re with BG3,” Vincke stated on Twitter (formally X), sharing a screenshot of the sport’s Steam participant rely, which reached over 169,000 concurrent gamers following the newest replace. “Patch 8 acquired lots of people enjoying once more. It took quite a lot of improvement effort however I am completely satisfied we did it.”
Feeling good at present about the place we’re with BG3. Patch 8 acquired lots of people enjoying once more. It took quite a lot of improvement effort however I am completely satisfied we did it.
With mod assist thriving , I feel the sport will now proceed to do properly for fairly a while. It provides us room to give attention to… pic.twitter.com/a6J5wQk6bE
— Swen Vincke @the place? (@LarAtLarian) April 22, 2025
“With mod assist thriving, I feel the sport will now proceed to do properly for fairly a while,” he added. “It provides us room to give attention to making our subsequent massive factor pretty much as good as we are able to, and that focus is greater than welcome. We have got massive sneakers to fill.”
As for what the studio can be filling these sneakers with, phrase on the road is that Larian is engaged on no less than two tasks, one in all which is an RPG anticipated to dwarf Baldur’s Gate 3 in measurement. Past that, particulars are sparse, however the studio has made one factor clear: Baldur’s Gate 4 just isn’t at present on the menu.
“That is not what we have been made for,” Vincke stated when requested a couple of potential Baldur’s Gate 4. “That is actually the alternative of what Larian is about. We wish to do massive, new issues. We do not wish to rehash the factor that we have finished already.”
On the intense aspect, Vincke beforehand indicated that gamers could see a new Larian title as soon as 2028 or 2029, however shortly backtracked a bit, including that the sport would launch “when it is prepared.” However no matter how lengthy it takes for Larian to provide one other masterpiece, one factor is for certain after the discharge of Patch 8: There may be nonetheless loads of enjoyable available in Faerûn (particularly with mods).