Baldurs Gate III Preview (Steam Early Access)

Gather your party, and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power.

Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 84502MB download size.
• Vulkan or Direct X11 option.
• Larian account signup-links your Steam account and enables cross saves.
• Use its own launcher within Steam.
• Dungeons and Dragons RPG gameplay.
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, frame rate cap, frame rate slider, gamma correction slider, overall graphics preset (custom/very low/low/medium/high/ultra), auto-detect graphics settings, model quality, instance distance, texture quality, texture filtering, lighting quality, shadows, light shadows, shadow quality, anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, depth of field, God rays, bloom, contrast adaptive sharpening, contrast slider, and subsurface scattering.
• Saves-auto saves, number of quicksave slots slider, number of autosave slots slider, and cross-save support.
• Player profile setup with support for many.
• Can skip cutscenes.
• Highly rendered and detailed cutscenes.
• Player creator-origin, race, appearance, class, skills, and abilities.
• 13 player backgrounds-folk hero, guild artisan, noble, hermit, outlander, sage, sailor, soldier, urchin, Acolyte, charlatan, criminal, and entertainer.
• Eight races-Elf, Tiefling, Drow, Human, Githyanki, Dwarf, Half-Elf, and Halfling. Each has a handful of subraces.
• Six classes-Cleric, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Warlock, and Wizard.
• Opening tutorial.
• Uses the Dungeons and Dragons 5e ruleset.
• Turn-based combat.
• 2-4 player online multiplayer.

Cons:

• No controller support.
• Doesn’t have Steam achievements.
• Long initial load time.
• The tutorial feels like it’s lacking in direction and guidance.