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Baldur's Gate 3 Fan Creates Incredible Map Showing Almost All the Locations in the Game
26.02.2024 - 21:53 / gamerant.com / Eric Law
A Baldur’s Gate 3 fan recently made a massive map that features nearly every in-game location. This huge project shows just how many places there are to explore in the journey that is Baldur’s Gate 3.
Like many CRPGs, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massive game. Though some Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunners have completed the campaign in minutes, most players will take anywhere from 25 to 125 hours to beat the game, depending on how much time they spend exploring the world, talking to NPCs, or completing side quests.
Now, Baldur’s Gate 3 fan and artist Jamelos_leopard has finished a project showing just how big the game world truly is. They combined the playable areas from nearly every corner of the game into one place by connecting the maps from the different act zones, plus the dungeons and instanced areas, into one giant map. A few areas, like the Astral Plane and various Camps from Baldur's Gate 3, are excluded, but all the other explorable locations are rendered together in an impressive display.
According to Jamelos_leopard, the game world for Baldur’s Gate 3 is about 100 square kilometers, or just under 40 square miles. While it is still dwarfed by some of the biggest open-world games in history, it does mean the Baldur’s Gate 3 map is larger than Grand Theft Auto 5, though the highly-anticipated sequel may eclipse it.
Despite its impressive scope, the Baldur’s Gate 3 map is a fraction of the region's actual lore size in the Dungeons and Dragons world of Faerun. One look at Baldur's Gate on the loading screen is proof enough that it had to shrink the game's eponymous city to make it more reasonable to render and explore in Act 3. Even so, Baldur's Gate is a great example of a fantasy game city, and players will still need hundreds of hours to see everything it and the rest of Baldur's Gate 3 has to offer.
Either way, players adored Jamelos_leopard’s impressive work, as evidenced by the hundreds of comments it got over the course of a single day. Jamelos_leopard explained their design decisions in their placement of certain locations, lamented the lack of official high-quality maps from Larian Studios, and theorized some of their favorite DLC ideas with their fellow fans. They have already printed their full game map as a poster, but there is still plenty of room to update the impressive display with additional zones if Larian Studios adds more locations in Baldur's Gate 3's potential DLC.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a Dungeons and Dragons inspired RPG developed and published by Larian Studios. Featuring both a single player and cooperative element, players create their character by selecting a starting class, take on quests, level up, and engage in turn-based combat using the D&D 5th edition rule set.
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