Developer Larian Studios has shared another batch of fascinating player stats from Baldur’s Gate 3. It turns out that the game’s vaunted Honor Mode ended prematurely in over 1.2 million games, with only 141,000 of them successfully completed. We should stop there for a moment.
In case you forgot, Honor Mode is the hardest difficulty in the game and comes with a few extra nasty conditions. Continuously saving beyond one slot, wiping out your team in a grueling environment means deleting your entire run (or you can choose to shamefully continue playing, disqualified).
It’s one thing to get through something like XCOM 2 in Ironman mode, and quite another to get through a massive, reactive RPG like Baldur’s Gate 3 with those limitations. You’re looking at potentially dozens of hours wasted with each failure, often literally coming down to a single roll of the dice; that’s pretty grave stuff (relatively speaking).
Player ran the numbers and figured that roughly means that around 11.6% of Honor Mode attempts ended in success. Of those 1.2 million who attempted the Herculean task and failed, a disappointing 24% of players decided to keep playing; 76% had the decency to let the transition die as it should.
