The year was 1998, when the role-playing game Baldur's Gate, developed by BioWare, came onto the market. Expansions, spin-offs and revisions followed, as well as the successor Baldur's Gate II: Shadow of Amn two years later (2000). Another part was actually planned by Interplay and BioWare with Baldur's Gate 3: The Black Hound. But when it came to the end of… License agreement between Wizards of the Coast and Interplay came, the work ended.
In 2017, however, there was good news again, because Larian Studios from Belgium had taken on the role-playing game series. Since 2020, fans have been able to play Baldur's Gate 3 in early access and It has been on the market since 2023.
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When is Baldur's Gate 4 finally coming?
But now the all-important question: When can we look forward to the fourth part of the series and will it take that long again? Larian has already commented on this and announced that that they are not working on a sequel.
The license holders Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro) but would like to continue the series. The situation is currently being “explored” and people are talking to many partners.
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Baldur's Gate 4: Will it take over 20 years again?
Between Baldur's Gate 2 and 3 are almost 25 years have passed. Of course, according to Eugene Evans (Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy and Licensing at Hasbro), it shouldn't take that long this time. However, you still want to take your time so that you can find the right partner.
For the Dungeon & Dragons fans And that's good news for Baldur's Gate too. It should continue, that much is certain. It should be clear that it will take some time, but if the fans have already shown so much patience, a few years are no longer important, or are they?
Which studio will develop Baldur's Gate 4?
According to Hasbro, the selection of a developer should be a success still a bit difficult design. Larian, who developed part 3, rejected them at the first attempt because the studio didn't have enough experience. So expectations are likely to be quite high.
That's not surprising, because Baldur's Gate 4 has to be equal to its predecessor and ideally even better. That should be difficult in itself, because Baldur's Gate 3 broke numerous records (the all-time high The number of simultaneously active players on Steam, for example, was over 875,000) and also won at the Game Awards 2023 named game of the year.
Source: SteamDB, VG247.com