Baldur’s Gate 3 Fans Love That It Gives You Enough Time To Play With Level 12 Powers

Level progression in video games needs to be well balanced. If a game allows you to level up too soon, you become too overpowered and there’s nothing challenging left. If the levelling up is too slow, then you’re forced to bang your head against a wall over and over again. However, it seems Baldur’s Gate 3 has managed to perfect the levelling system.

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The game is built in such a way that you don’t blast through the levels and become a walking god, nor does it make you grind so much that you can only use your most powerful abilities in the last few encounters – many games do this as a way to justify New Game+. It’s tweaked in such a way that you can reach level 12 with just enough content left that you can actually enjoy being so powerful.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Handles Levelling Up Perfectly

This well-thought-out balancing hasn’t gone unnoticed by fans, who are glad that Larian took its time on the progression system. “This game does something a lot of games don’t,” noted Grandkahoona01 on Reddit. “You reach max level (12) while still having a good number of hours left in the game.

“You can easily get up to level 12 fairly early in act 3 (and some can reach max level even earlier) meaning you get to play with the game’s most powerful spells and abilities for like 10 hours left in the game,” they added.

“I don’t do all the big fights until I’ve hit 12. So fun to go all out with big numbers and control against the tougher act 3 bosses,” agreed one comment. With regard to overlevelling, one player noted, “It does its best to not overdo your power. Some spells, more hit points, a few other classes get improved versions of things they can already do. Some feats. It doesn’t actually give you the spells from the book from those levels.”

Even tabletop RPG players agreed that Larian handled it well. “Coming from DMing the TTRPG, I thought the level cap was 100% good as it was.” The added that going past level 12 in D&D gives you some world-breaking powers that the video game would probably struggle to cope with.

Of course, there were those who used mods to break the level cap and make the numbers go higher, but that’s only when you want to mess around.