ESTIMATE: Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 23.2 million copies and generated over $1.2 billion in revenue, according to Alinea Analytics estimates published on October 22, 2026, by Rhys Elliott, the firm's head of market analytics. These are not official figures released by Larian Studios: they are Alinea estimates, and the gross revenue figure should not be read as profit, since it does not deduct development and marketing costs, store fees and taxes.
Steam accounts for most of the total, with about 18.7 million copies, or 80.6%. PlayStation 5 adds 2.9 million (12.7%) and Xbox 1.6 million (6.8%). Around 1.3 million players on Steam bought the game before version 1.0. Released for PC in August 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 reached PlayStation 5 about a month later and Xbox four months later, after technical difficulties with local co-op on Xbox Series S, according to Alinea itself.
The most striking figure, for a single-player RPG without a live-service structure, is audience retention. According to Alinea, monthly active users have never fallen below 2 million across platforms, reaching 2.2 million last month — 68.5% on Steam, 21.9% on PlayStation 5 and 9.6% on Xbox — with 280,000 to 400,000 players per day. About 1% of the Steam player base, just under 200,000 people, has passed 500 hours of play.
The survey is part of a retrospective on the Game of the Year winners of the past four years. In the same study, Elden Ring (2022) appears with 36.4 million copies and $2 billion in revenue; Astro Bot (2024) with 4.7 million and $291 million; and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025) with 8.7 million and $366 million. Together, the four titles total $3.8 billion across 73 million copies, always according to Alinea's estimates.
The context helps explain why Baldur's Gate 3 keeps being cited as a benchmark for long-lived premium RPGs: a complex narrative game, with no seasons or recurring passes, that keeps selling years after launch. Larian, meanwhile, does not plan to continue the Baldur's Gate series and is working on a new Divinity game, according to TweakTown's coverage of the study.
Sources: Alinea Analytics — How well have past GOTY winners sold?; TweakTown — Baldur's Gate 3 made over $1 billion in sales, analyst estimates
Image credit: TweakTown, Baldur's Gate 3 artwork (Larian Studios) published in its coverage of the Alinea Analytics estimate
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