Baldur’s Gate 3’s ultimate challenge is Honour Mode — which not only turns the game’s difficulty up, but adds permadeath. If your character dies, the run is over. Eight months ago, just days after developer Larian Studios first released the mode, just 464 people had completed a run in Honour Mode out of 34,000 people who had tried and failed. Unsurprisingly, the number of completed Honour Mode runs has increased, but the people who’ve beat it make up a fraction of the folks who’ve tried it: 141,660 players beat Honour Mode out of 1,223,305 who have tried, according to an infographic published Wednesday. That’s just under 12% of completed Honour Mode campaigns. Yeah, it’s hard!
When you lose in Honour Mode, you have two options: Delete the save or move it into Custom Mode. Seventy-six percent of players chose to delete their saves, while 24% took their character into Custom Mode. (Taking your save into Custom Mode means you won’t have actually completed Honour Mode.)
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
Larian also published a bunch of other statistics, like it did eight months ago. The top three characters have changed: Previously, it was Gale, Astarion, and Karlach; now it’s Astarion, Gale, and Shadowheart. But, of course, 93% of players chose to make their own custom characters to play. The other very important statistic is that the number of players who were turned into a wheel of cheese has increased by 660,000. That was a huge percentage of the player base eight months ago, but that’s no longer the case: Baldur’s Gate 3 has “way over” 10 million players across platforms, according to Larian publishing director Michael Douse. (The 10 million number is from February, so it’s likely increased.)
However, the number of people who chose to have sex with Halsin in his bear form hasn’t changed much: It’s still around 30%. Overall, players have handed out more than 75 million kisses across the gamut, but with 27 million kisses going to Shadowheart, the most popular choice for smooching. (“Please give them a break, their lips are losing pixels,” Larian wrote on X.) She’s still the most popular romance option, with 48.8% of people reaching her “final romance scene,” according to Larian.
There are plenty more statistics published on X, including ones that discuss endgame spoilers. One choice — you’ll have to click over there to see, because major spoilers! — is so rare that only 34 people out of more than 10 players ended Baldur’s Gate 3 that way.