Baldur's Gate 3 and Larian Studios lead Swen Vincke declares that single-player games are, in fact, not "dead" at all – "they just have to be good"

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing Astarion, a pale male elf with short curly white hair and red eyes, looking over his shoulder with a smirk on his face
(Image credit: Larian Studios)

As Larian Studios wraps up its work to release the long-awaited 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Patch 8 for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3, CEO Swen Vincke has shared some much-needed wisdom with the broader gami🧜ng community – no, single-player games are not "dead."

Vincke makes the declaration in a recent online , explaining that people just need to "use your imagination" and try to see the bigger picture – single-player games are still very much alive indeed, bu෴t, unsurprisingly, they've got to be good to actually gain significant traction. "That time of the year again when big single-๊player games are declared dead," writes the lead. "Use your imagination. They're not. They just have to be good."

The Baldur's Gate 3 director's statement rings especially true in an era arguably boasting the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best RPGs to date, from Larian's own 2023 banger to more recent releases like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and a personal favorite of mine from last year, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metaphor: ReFantazio. There's also 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avowed, an immersive single-player gem from renowned studio 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Obsidian Entertainment our review describes as filling "a f🐓irst-person void" within th🅷e genre.

There's more to come from Larian Studios after the Baldur's Gate 3 developers wrap up their work on Patch 8, too, with the company previously admitting it's placing its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"full attention" on its next RPG – which, while it won't be Baldur's Gate 4, doesn't mean a sequel isn't also coming. After all, Dungeons & Dragons' parent company Hasbro stated that it's currently 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"talking to lots of partners" about the next Baldur's Gate game.

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Anna Koselke
Staff Writer

After spending years with her head in various fantastical realms' clouds, Anna studied English Literature and then Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, going on to specialize in narrative design and video game journalism as a wꦇriter. She has written for various publications since her postgraduate studies, including Dexerto, Fanbyte, GameSpot, IGN, PCGamesN, and more. When she's not frantically trying to form words into coherent sentences, she's probably daydreaming about becoming a fairy druid and befriending every animal or she's spending a thousand (more) hours traversing the Underdark in Baldur's Gate 3. If you spot her🌺 away from her PC, you'll always find Anna with a fantasy book, a handheld video game console of some sort, and a Tamagotchi or two on hand.

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