‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ creator teases “big” new game with advent calendar
“This thing, it needs a lot more time in the oven”
by Ali Shutler · NMEBaldur’s Gate 3 developers have teased their “big” new game with a festive advent calendar.
A Very Larian Christmas returned over the weekend, with a twelve-day countdown featuring a daily puzzle. Today’s (December 16) challenge is a jigsaw that ends with a gorgeous image of The Red Prince from 2017’s Divinity: Original Sin 2 and some accompanying lore.
The first puzzle (December 13) was an image of Baldur’s Gate 3’s Shadow-Cursed Lands while the reward was a playful video direct from Larian Studios. The 90-second clip started with the studio’s senior communications developer Aoife Wilson decorating a Christmas tree before a series of festive messages from Larian’s global studios. “Before I forget, I got you one more thing,” she continued, picking up a present labelled “Larian’s next game”.
Director Sven Vinke then tackled Wilson and took the present away from her. “Sorry about that. This thing, it needs a lot more time in the oven. But by the time it’s finished, it’s going to be so big. For the time being, you’re going to have to wait,” he explained.
Back in March, Larian confirmed it had scrapped work on an expansion for Baldur’s Gate 3 and a sequel. Instead, the studio announced it had started two “ambitious” new titles based on original ips. “I don’t know if we’re going to pull it off, but looking at our narrative, visual and gameplay plans, I think what we’re working on now will be our best work ever. Yes, it’s hype but it’s hype because it really looks and feels good,” said Vinke.
“One of the biggest problems we have now is that, whenever we’re talking about things, we say we did that in Baldur’s Gate 3,” admitted writing director Adam Smith. “We did a lot of things in BG3 when we think back to it.”
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Next year, Larian will release its final major update for Baldur’s Gate 3 that will include a new photo mode, cross-play and new subclasses for all existing classes before it “moves on”. However Wizards Of The Coast, which owns the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Baldur’s Gate ip, has confirmed it will continue the series.
In other news, “definitive” Squid Game video game Unleashed will be free for everyone when it launches tomorrow (December 17).