Baldurs Gate III is a role playing game rooted in Dungeons & Dragons rules, offering a richly reactive story where player choices shape quests, relationships, and outcomes across a sprawling fantasy campaign.

Players build a custom hero or gather a party of companions, engaging in turn based combat that draws on tabletop mechanics for spells, abilities, and positioning. Its depth of choice and consequence, combined with extensive character customization, has earned it widespread acclaim within the RPG genre.