Summary
- Baldur's Gate 3 map is massive at 100 sq km.
- A fan-made map connects all game areas into one giant display, excluding some minor zones, impressing players and fans alike.
- Baldur's Gate remains a huge fantasy masterpiece in the vast world of Faerun.
A Baldur’s Gate 3 fan recently made a massive map that features nearly every in-game location. This huge project shows just how many places there are to explore in the journey that is Baldur’s Gate 3.
Like many CRPGs, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massive game. Though some Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunners have completed the campaign in minutes, most players will take anywhere from 25 to 125 hours to beat the game, depending on how much time they spend exploring the world, talking to NPCs, or completing side quests.
Now, Baldur’s Gate 3 fan and artist Jamelos_leopard has finished a project showing just how big the game world truly is. They combined the playable areas from nearly every corner of the game into one place by connecting the maps from the different act zones, plus the dungeons and instanced areas, into one giant map. A few areas, like the Astral Plane and various Camps from Baldur's Gate 3, are excluded, but all the other explorable locations are rendered together in an impressive display.
How Big is the Baldur's Gate 3 Map?
According to Jamelos_leopard, the game world for Baldur’s Gate 3 is about 100 square kilometers, or just under 40 square miles. While it is still dwarfed by some of the biggest open-world games in history, it does mean the Baldur’s Gate 3 map is larger than Grand Theft Auto 5, though the highly-anticipated sequel may eclipse it.
Despite its impressive scope, the Baldur’s Gate 3 map is a fraction of the region's actual lore size in the Dungeons and Dragons world of Faerun. One look at Baldur's Gate on the loading screen is proof enough that it had to shrink the game's eponymous city to make it more reasonable to render and explore in Act 3. Even so, Baldur's Gate is a great example of a fantasy game city, and players will still need hundreds of hours to see everything it and the rest of Baldur's Gate 3 has to offer.
Either way, players adored Jamelos_leopard’s impressive work, as evidenced by the hundreds of comments it got over the course of a single day. Jamelos_leopard explained their design decisions in their placement of certain locations, lamented the lack of official high-quality maps from Larian Studios, and theorized some of their favorite DLC ideas with their fellow fans. They have already printed their full game map as a poster, but there is still plenty of room to update the impressive display with additional zones if Larian Studios adds more locations in Baldur's Gate 3's potential DLC.
Baldur's Gate 3
- Released
- August 3, 2023
WHERE TO PLAY
Abducted, infected, lost. You are turning into a monster, but as the corruption inside you grows, so does your power. Forge a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, you and your party will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms.
THE ULTIMATE D&D EXPERIENCE
Choose from a wide selection of D&D races and classes, or play as an origin character with a hand-crafted background. Adventure, loot, battle, and romance as you journey through the Forgotten Realms and beyond. Play alone or as a party of up to four in multiplayer – and select your companions carefully.
A CINEMATIC STORYTELLING EPIC
Forged with the new Divinity 4.0 engine, Baldur’s Gate 3 gives you unprecedented freedom to explore, experiment, and interact with a world that reacts to your choices. A grand, cinematic narrative brings you closer to your characters than ever before, as you venture through our biggest world yet. Romance, deceive, aid, obstruct, and grow alongside your friends thanks to Larian's next-generation RPG engine.
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Larian Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Larian Studios
- Franchise
- Baldur's Gate
- Number of Players
- 1-4
- Split Screen Orientation
- Vertical Only
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, macOS
- Genre(s)
- RPG
- How Long To Beat
- 100+ Hours
- Metascore
- 96
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
- Local Co-Op Support
- 1-2 Players
