{"id":379265,"date":"2026-09-29T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=379265"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:50:21","slug":"baldurs-gate-3-steam-data-shows-many-players-restart-before-act-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/baldurs-gate-3-steam-data-shows-many-players-restart-before-act-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldur\u2019s Gate 3: Steam data shows many players restart before Act 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steam<\/a> achievement stats for Larian Studios\u2019 RPG Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/a> suggest a lot of you are hitting restart<\/strong> before the game really gets going.<\/p>\n

\r\n
\r\n
\r\n
\r\n \"Steam\"\r\n <\/div>\r\n
\r\n Steam<\/span>\r\n Download<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
\r\n <\/path><\/path><\/text><\/svg>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
\r\n <\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The numbers on Steam tell the story: 89.1%<\/strong> of players made it through the Nautiloid tutorial, but only 50.2% got out of Act 1. That’s not a perfect way to measure drop-off, since some people buy the game and never boot it up, and some mods turn achievements off, but it still lines up with the very Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 habit of starting over.<\/p>\n\n

A lot of that comes down to plain old restartitis<\/strong>. It’s not always that people get bored and walk away. Sometimes you just decide a Bard sounds more fun than the Paladin you picked, or that Dark Urge suddenly feels like a better idea than a custom Tav.<\/p>\n\n

And Act 1 really does make that easy. With 12 classes<\/strong>, subclasses, races, backgrounds, moral paths, and changes to dialogue, companion reactions, quest outcomes, and smaller story beats, it can feel like a full game by itself, stuffed with companions, major quests, hidden encounters, and choices that actually matter.<\/p>\n\n

Then Act 2 arrives with the darker Shadow-Cursed Lands<\/strong>, and that can kill your momentum a bit. If you’re still getting used to D&D 5e, a clunky build or shaky resource management, stealth, and combat can make starting fresh feel like the better call.<\/p>\n\n

For Larian Studios, that isn’t necessarily bad news. Running Act 1<\/strong> again can still count as engagement, and patches, epilogues, balance updates, official mod support<\/a>, and mods that add classes, spells, companions, and cosmetics keep handing players new excuses to reroll. You can get Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 on Steam.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steam achievement stats for Larian Studios\u2019 RPG Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 suggest a lot of you are hitting restart before the game really gets going. The numbers on Steam tell the story: 89.1% of players made it through the Nautiloid tutorial, but only 50.2% got out of Act 1. That’s not a perfect way to measure … Continue reading “Baldur\u2019s Gate 3: Steam data shows many players restart before Act 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":379264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-379265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379269,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379265\/revisions\/379269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379265"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=379265"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=379265"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=379265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}