Baldur's Gate 3

How many games can say they've been decades in the making? None that are as eagerly awaited as Larian Studios' RPG epic, which arrives 20 years on from the last entry...

- Alan Wen

You needn't have mulled over thick rulebooks and perfected your D20 dice rolls to immerse yourself in Baldur's Gate 3. Even newcomers to Dungeons & Dragons will appreciate some of the most epic and absorbing role-playing stories ever conceived.

Things kick off a century after the events of the previous game, with an (almost) entirely new cast. Moulding your own character is part of the experience, or you can play as one of the fantastic pre-set ones such as sneaky vampire Astarion, Githyanki warrior Lae'zel, or half-elf cleric Shadowheart.

They're a terrifically diverse mismatch of personalities and loyalties with one commonality: they've all been abducted by an eldritch race of Mind Flayers and infected with a tadpole that will eventually transform them into tentacled slaves. Time for swords and spells, then?