Baldur’s Gate III

RELEASING BALDUR’S GATE III into Early Access might be a masterstroke. It’s going to be there for about a year, and while it gets the 25-hour first act into players’ hands in a playable state, it also lets developer Larian off the hook for any glitches—like the fact we couldn’t get the game to run under its default Vulkan renderer, backing off to DirectX 11 instead. There’s a disclaimer up front and a darn great watermark on all screenshots to the effect that, yes, this is still an early build.

Look at it, then, as a valuable opportunity