Summary
There’s still very little information to go on about what developer Larian Studios plans to follow upBaldur’s Gate 3with, but at least one clue to the next project is apparently already within reach. Although the potential for a fourthBaldur’s Gategame or DLC is obvious, Larian is choosing to go in a different direction, with the studio working on multiple games that have nothing to do with theDungeons & Dragonslicense. Although it may be some time yet before they’re revealed, that certainly won’t stop speculation about what could be coming next.
Baldur’s Gate 3is a game with plenty ofhidden secrets and Easter eggs, from references to prior games from Larian to nods toward pop culture at large. The game’s approach to its references is generally done tastefully, with a large focus on maintaining strong writing and a believable world rather than tossing things aside to score points based on familiarity or simple gags. It makes sense that some Easter eggs would be used to tease future projects, but it isn’t necessarily something that most of the community has been looking for until now.
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Larian CEO Swen Vincke Confirmed A BG3 Easter Egg
A Writer Included A Clue For The Next Game
As noted by Reddit usertruebma, the information about teases withinBaldur’s Gate 3comes courtesy of a Future Games Show interview with Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke, available on the officialFGSYouTube channel. When asked about undiscovered Easter eggs within the game,Vincke answers that one of the writers included a reference to the next game. If this has been discovered, he isn’t aware of it, setting up a tantalizing challenge for the community.
“One of the writers told me that she put something in there that was talking about our next game. And so the interesting thing is that we did the same thing with DOS 2 — Divinity: Original Sin 2 — we put in references to BG3 in there. Nobody found them. At least not that I’m aware. So I’m not sure if people found the one in reference to our next game in there.” — Swen Vincke
Regarding theBaldur’s Gate 3references inDivinity: Original Sin 2, some fans of the games have uncovered apparent connections, but they’re not teases that anyone would have been likely to notice before the reveal of the newer game. A YouTube comment fromDr_Slashlays out some potential teases, all of which tie into the mind flayer plot that results in the party’s infection with parasitic tadpoles. These references establish a plot from mysterious tentacled creatures, and Mind Maggots and references to “the Grand Design” seem like prototypes for central aspects of Baldur’s Gate 3.
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Easter Egg Will Be Challenging To Find
There’s Way Too Much To Sift Through
Although it’s easy enough for an attentive player to recognize these links in hindsight, doing so withBaldur’s Gate 3’s Easter egg before the reveal of the next game could prove more challenging.Baldur’s Gate 3is dense with information and dangling threads, and not every concept mentioned is always resolved or elaborated on.Picking out which idea might actually connect to the next Larian project could be like searching for a needle in a haystack, and extrapolating an understanding of what the next game will look like might be even harder.
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With theDivinity: Original Sin 2teases, there was also the possibility of linking a couple of ideas together, which may not be the case this time around. Swen only mentions a singular Easter egg, and although it’s not impossible that other writers threw in their own clues that he’s not aware of, it’s best to assume for the moment that it’s simply a lone hint. In an adventure as huge asBaldur’s Gate 3, that could be anywhere, and it might not even be something that would crop up in the average campaign.
Finding Baldur’s Gate 3’s Easter Egg Might Be Possible
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That being said, it’s still possible that someone with the right intuition could figure things out ahead of time. ExtensiveDnDknowledge is one tool that can be useful in picking apartBaldur’s Gate 3, as a lot of the smaller pieces of information scattered throughout the game are familiar parts of thelore of the Forgotten Realms.Being able to narrow down potential clues to things that didn’t already exist within theDnDuniverse definitely refines the search, even if there’s still a lot to work with.
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There’s also an interesting question of just when this Easter egg might have been added toBaldur’s Gate 3, as it’s not clear how long the studio might have been working on ideas that could have been tossed in. Vincke previously confirmed thatLarian Studios had started work on DLCfor the game before scrapping it over the holidays, with moving toward new projects seeming like the more exciting option to keep things fresh and maintain morale.
Larian Studios leavingBaldur’s Gate 3behind doesn’t mean the franchise is necessarily over, as the story and characters could ultimately continue under another studio’s leadership.
Although the company likely already had some concepts in place,this could mean that the Easter egg is something added in a more recent patchrather than an inclusion at launch. The consistently significant lists of changes in every patch would make it difficult to identity anything not marked in the notes, but considering when the clue might have been inserted could still prove helpful.
If theBaldur’s Gate 3community does fail to figure out the Easter egg, it certainly won’t be the end of the world. A reveal of what Larian Studios is working on will have to come eventually, even if it does end up being a long way off, and there are plenty of other RPGs and fantasy games to provide reasonable distractions for the time being. For the naturally inquisitive, however, trying to figure out whatBaldur’s Gate 3might be teasing could be a fun scavenger hunt as long as anyone embarking upon it accepts that they may never find any answers.
