Baldur’s Gate 3’s Honor Mode Responsible for Over a Million Failures

Developer Larian Studios has released another fun treasure trove of fascinating player statistics collected from Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s emerged that the game’s much-vaunted Honor mode has prematurely ended over 1.2 million games, with only 141,000 successfully completed, which is something we should dwell on for a second.

In case you forgot, Honor Mode is the game’s hardest difficulty setting, and it comes with a few additional nasty conditions. Constantly saving on a single slot, a party wipe in this grueling setting means your entire game is deleted (or you can choose to continue playing in shame, disqualified).

It’s one extremely difficult thing to complete a game like XCOM 2 on Ironman mode, and it’s another to complete a massive, reactive RPG like Baldur’s Gate 3 with such restrictions. You risk losing dozens of hours every time you fail, often due to a simple roll of the dice. It’s a pretty serious problem (relatively speaking).

The Gamer crunched the numbers and determined that this means that, roughly, about 11.6% of Honor Mode attempts were successful. Of the 1.2 million players who undertook this herculean task and failed, 24% chose to continue playing; 76% had the dignity to let the attempt end, as it should.