Baldur’s Gate 3 nabs ninth GOTY accolade (including mine) | Kaser Focus

The BAFTA Games Awards happened this week, in which Baldur’s Gate 3 (surprise) took home another Game of the Year award — or Best Game, as BAFTA calls it. In total, Larian took home four awards for their RPG, with a fifth, Performer in a Supporting Role, going to Andrew Wincott, the actor who played the villainous Raphael. If my calculations are correct, this means that Baldur’s Gate 3 has taken home ten Game of the Year Awards, those being:

• BAFTA Games Awards: Best Game of 2024
• The Game Awards: Game of the Year
• Golden Joystick: Ultimate Game of the Year
• The Steam Awards: Game of the Year
• New York Game Awards: Big Apple Award for Game of the Year
• DICE Awards: Game of the Year
• Game Developers Choice Awards: Game of the Year
• GLAAD Media Awards: Outstanding Video Game
• GamesBeat: Rachel Kaser’s No. 1 Game of 2023

I’m sure you’ll all agree that that last accolade is by far the most important. I’ve actually started a new Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough (though I likely won’t get very far with Dragon’s Dogma 2 still on my plate) with one of my TTRPG characters in the role of Tav, as you can see in the picture above. In addition to Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dragon’s Dogma 2, I think I’ll be checking out Botany Manor this week. I’ve had quite enough big feast-like games lately — I think a smaller, comfier bowl of soup sounds like more my speed in my downtime.