Baldur’s Gate 3 Still Has “About A Year Left Of Development” Before Leaving Early Access

Though it’s been in early access since October 2020, Baldur’s Gate 3 won’t be officially launching any time soon. Larian Studios says that the game won’t be leaving early access until sometime next year.

In a panel interview, Baldur’s Gate 3 Director Swen Vincke told Fanbyte, “We’re at the end-stage of development, but we still will release a number of patches. We think we have about a year left of development at this point. So, it’s not going to be for the next couple of months at 1.0 stage, but we’re dealing with burndown charts that are going down rather than up.”

Larian Studios most recently released Patch 7 for Baldur’s Gate 3, which adds the Barbarian class to the tabletop-inspired RPG. That brings the game’s total number of classes to nine.