Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the best games to come out in recent memory, featuring a fantastic blend of Dungeons & Dragons elements with some of the finest RPG mechanics and world-building ever displayed. While BG3 is a truly memorable game, several other titles on the market offer a similar experience in one or more ways. Whether it’s through unique Dungeons & Dragons aspects, RPG features, or how a game goes about its characters and world, you can find other games to scratch all of these itches that BG3 satisfies so well.
Today, we’ll be counting down the games that are most like Baldur’s Gate 3. These games aren’t ranked in any order and are all easily playable in some form in 2025.
Divinity Original Sin 2
- Developer: Larian Studios
- Release Date: September 14, 2017
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS
It’s hard not to start off this list with anything other than Divinity Original Sin 2. This game was developed by the same team behind Baldur’s Gate 3: Larian Studios. You can think of Divinity Original Sin 2 as a spiritual prequel to BG3, even though the games are set in completely separate universes with different lore and characters. However, you’ll immediately notice plenty of similarities between the two games after you start Original Sin 2. There’s a whole cast of characters to pick from, all with full backgrounds, skills to pick from, and unique abilities.
With your character, you can form a party with three other characters you pick up throughout your travels. Your party travels across a dangerous world where your kind, a Source user, is being hunted down and killed. Like BG3, turn-based combat is standard, so it’ll be instantly recognizable. You’ll also get to complete dozens of deep quests, explore a massive world, and make constant decisions that drastically affect your ending. Sound familiar at all?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Developer: Sandfall Interactive
- Release Date: April 24, 2025
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took different elements that make Baldur’s Gate 3 great, and innovated upon those elements to create a totally new experience. While it’s still an RPG that features turn-based combat, a deep world, and charming characters, you’ll find that Clair Obscur scratches gaming itches that you didn’t even know existed. The game cranks up the difficulty of turn-based combat by adding in difficult boss fights and combo attacks that change up every single fight you get into. If that wasn’t enough, combat also changes on a dime with reactive elements that can occur at any time. You’ll find yourself invested in the main characters, which is a testament to how charming, heart-wrenching, yet hilarious the story is. Clair Obscur is another gaming masterpiece, and any RPG fan needs to experience it.
Pillars of Eternity
- Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
- Release Date: March 26, 2015
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch
If there’s another development studio that knows how to make RPGs aside from Larian, it’s Obsidian Entertainment. Obsidian is responsible for RPGs like Avowed, Fallout New Vegas, and The Outer Worlds, but Pillars of Eternity is the game that most resembles Baldur’s Gate 3. Similar to BG3, Pillars of Eternity is a CRPG that takes place from a top-down perspective and involves assembling a party of characters and using turn-based combat. However, one large difference between PoE and BG3 is that PoE doesn’t follow a D&D ruleset. While the RPG does utilize a similar system for using spells, creating builds, and leveling characters, it uses a completely unique ruleset. If you’re okay with learning a new ruleset, then Pillars of Eternity is one of the best CRPGs on the market, and it also has some sequels you can play.
Dragon Age: Origins
- Developer: BioWare
- Release Date: November 2, 2009
- Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC
The Dragon Age series has a lot in common with Baldur’s Gate 3, as you can make your own character, assemble a party, and go on an RPG adventure full of difficult decisions and in-depth world-building. However, the largest difference between the two games lies in combat, as Dragon Age Origins isn’t turn-based. Instead, you’ll fight enemies one-on-one or in a group, as the game often has you mowing down hordes of monsters. Some terrifying bosses will challenge your skills, though, so there’s plenty of variation with the combat. Aside from that, Origins is a complex RPG where you can level up your characters to learn new skills and abilities and craft each member of your party to be the perfect version of themselves.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Developer: CD Projekt
- Release Date: May 19, 2015
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch
While The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt isn’t the same kind of RPG as Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s still a game that features a similar amount of depth and charm as Larian Studios’ masterpiece. Right up there with BG3 as one of the best RPGs of all time, The Witcher 3 picks up the story of Geralt of Rivia, who you play as for most of the game. You don’t need to play the first two games in the series, but they will help you understand more of the lore behind some characters and the world. Throughout The Witcher 3, you’ll take part in third-person combat with swords, spells, and equipment and get the chance to explore a huge world jam-packed with sights to see. You can visit sprawling cities filled with NPCs to dangerous islands where one wrong step means the end of your life. The Witcher 3 isn’t a game you want to miss out on, and it features plenty of the same aspects that BG3 players love.
Planescape: Torment
- Developer: Black Isle Studios
- Release Date: November 30, 1999
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch
Planescape: Torment can be seen as one of the grandparents of the RPG genre, as it was originally released in the 90s and implemented many first-time mechanics that games still use to this day. As you might expect from a 90s game, the graphics aren’t going to be cutting-edge, but as soon as you get past the primitive pixels on your screen, you’ll be captivated by a tactical and engrossing RPG. Planescape: Torment places a major emphasis on the story, but combat is at the forefront as well. The game features a real-time combat system, but there’s a pause feature to allow you to strategize your next move. Pair all of this with dozens of complex puzzles to solve and a lore-rich world to explore, and you have one of the best RPGs of all time that still stacks up to Baldur’s Gate 3 today.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
- Developer: Owlcat Games
- Release Date: September 2, 2021
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch
The Pathfinder franchise is another series of CRPG games that features a similar combat system and character progression to Baldur’s Gate 3. While Pathfinder doesn’t implement a true D&D ruleset, it does use one that’s heavily inspired by the 3.5 ruleset. The series has a few games to play, but the best overall is Wrath of the Righteous. This is the most recent Pathfinder game, and it’s a blast to play through. Your job in Wrath of the Righteous is to clear the land of demonic monsters, and you can assemble a party of unique companions to do so.
The game allows you to pick from either turn-based or real-time combat and gives you a choice in just about everything you do, so no two adventures will be the same. It also has 25 classes to pick from, 12 characters, and nine Mythic Paths that allow you to further customize your character. Oh, and there’s a good bit of romance, so what’s not to love as a BG3 fan?
Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition
- Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
- Release Date: October 31, 2006
- Platforms: PC
We’re just going to say it: Obsidian Entertainment knows how to make RPGs. We’ve already talked about Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity series on this list, but let’s take it back to the early 2000s with the studio’s Neverwinter Nights 2. Unlike PoE, Neverwinter Nights 2 is based on Dungeons & Dragons, so you’ll be right at home if you’ve familiarized yourself with the 3.5 ruleset at all. Even if you haven’t, the ruleset will be somewhat recognizable to any BG3 fan. Neverwinter Nights 2 is another CRPG that features all of the same genre mechanics you’d expect.
However, the game also allows you to be the Dungeon Master of your adventure. You can create solo or multiplayer adventures right inside the game, or you can choose to go on an adventure created by another player. Even if you want to stick with the main story, though, you get to go through four campaigns that last for dozens of hours each and offer fun, turn-based combat and a full city to explore that houses plenty of secrets to find.
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
- Developer: Tactical Adventures
- Release Date: October 20, 2020
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
If you’re looking for another CRPG that utilizes a true D&D ruleset, then look no further than Solasta: Crown of the Magister. Using the SRD 5.1 ruleset, which is the system reference document for the D&D 5e ruleset, BG3 fans will recognize plenty of skills, abilities, and classes in Solasta. Also like BG3, Crown of the Magister allows you to create your own character or choose from existing ones and features strategic, and at times difficult, turn-based combat. Dice rolls decide the outcome of combat and dialogue choices, but as long as you have the right skills, you’ll usually get the result you’re looking for. Crown of the Magister allows you complete freedom of choice, allowing you to navigate the deep world as you see fit. It’s a perfect stepping stone from BG3, and there’s also a sequel, Solasta II, arriving in the future.
Wasteland 3
- Developer: inXile Entertainment
- Release Date: August 27, 2020
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
If you thought Baldur’s Gate 3 could get a little too relaxed at times, then you might want to check out Wasteland 3. The Wasteland series is legendary in the RPG genre, and the third installment is one of the best from developer inXile Entertainment. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world, and you have control over a party of law enforcers who go from place to place trying to scavenge for supplies to survive a harsh and dangerous world. Wasteland 3’s environments are difficult to navigate, but so are the relationships you make along your travels. Depending on your decisions, you’ll affect the outcome of your party and the surrounding region. If all that weren’t enough, the turn-based combat in Wasteland 3 can be equally brutal, forcing you to strategize around your different party members’ abilities and strengths.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Developer: Intelligent Systems
- Release Date: July 26, 2019
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is arguably the best iteration of any game in the Fire Emblem series, and that’s certainly saying a lot. Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch, Three Houses is a tactical RPG where you begin as a professor of one of three esteemed houses within a continent’s ruling body. You’ll be tasked with teaching a group of students both academics and combat, with the latter eventually taking over as your primary subject. Three Houses uses exciting turn-based combat, and you can use your students in battle to subdue the enemy. The game offers you plenty of choices, from picking your house to how to go about combat to what kind of subject you teach your students. It’s a completely different RPG from Baldur’s Gate 3, but there are still some parallels that fans will pick up on.
