Baldur's Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn't make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion's worth of free updates into 2025

Two years on and it's still Baldur's Gate 3's world we're living in. Every new RPG is measured against it, and Larian's next game, Divinity, is still hotly anticipated even amid criticism of the studio's admission of experimenting with generative AI.

Until Larian unveiled Divinity, we didn't know what it was doing next—only that it wouldn't be Baldur's Gate 4. At GDC 2024, about nine months after BG3's release, Larian boss Swen Vincke dropped a bombshell: The studio would not make an expansion...