Baldur's Gate 3 is now among the top-selling RPGs on Steam, and coincidentally, none of the others let you have sex with a grizzly bear

Baldur's Gate 3
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Riding the high of a big reveal event and preview flood, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 has quickly shot up the charts to become one of the top-selling RPGs on Steam and, at the time of writing, the seventh top-selling game in general. Apropos of nothing, I can't help but notice that none of its competition will let you have sex with a🐻 grizzly bear.  

If you're too pure to know what I'm talking about, prepare to be corrupted: last week, developer Larian Studios revealed, to rapturous applause, that Baldur's Gate 3 will let you sleep with a Druid who's currently turned themselves into a grizzly bear via W🐈ildshaping. Coincidentally, it's risen 18 spots on the Steam charts since. 

Have a gander at the other top-selling games on Steam and you'll notice a distinct lack of bear love. The only RPGs currently beating Baldur's Gate 3 are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dave the Diver, which I'd call RPG-lite but it is a fair tag for it, and Elden Ring. Dave the Diver is all about fish, so it gets a pass here. But Elden Ring? 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FromSoftware's open-world epic is notoriously full of bears, yet none of them꧂ are suitable partn💫ers on account of being 1) actual bears and 2) more interested in mauling than cuddling. 

Red Dead Redemption 2 is less of an RPG, but it comes in at number eight on Steam and it's chock-full of grizzly bears, yet again,𒅌 none can be romanced. For shame. The other RPG in the upper echelons is Cyberpunk 2077, and while it features plenty of chromed-up burly men who might reasonab꧑ly be described as bears, true-blue loveable bears are in short supply. 

You might be thinking that Baldur's Gate 3's surge in popularity should be attributed to the many other interesting, non-bear things we've heard since its high-profile preview event, like its lead writer 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:fielding Starfield comparisons and convincing us that Monk is actually the best class. You may also argue that this kind of event, especially in the lead-up to the already well-received RPG's official post-early acces𓆏s launch, would inevitably ignite some hype no matter how many bears were involved. 

You would admittedly have a point, but Larian's claim that releasing an RPG with "tender, consensual romance𒈔 with a man temporarily transformed into a grꦍizzly bear" is "giving the people what they want" is looking less absurd by the day. 

Here are some 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 tips to help you survive this unbelievably dense adventure. 

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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced 🥃for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree.🌠 He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.