Baldur’s Gate 3’s honor mode is so hard that less than 12% of people complete it

Baldurs Gate 3‘s ultimate challenge is Honor Mode — which not only ramps up the game’s difficulty, but also adds permadeath. If your character dies, the run is over. Eight months ago, just days after developer Larian Studios first released the mode, just 464 people had completed a run in Honor Mode out of the 34,000 who had attempted and failed. Unsurprisingly, the number of Honor Mode completions has increased, but those who have completed it are a tiny fraction of those who have attempted it: 141,660 players have completed Honor Mode out of the 1,223,305 who have attempted it, according to an infographic published on Wednesday. That’s just under 12% of completed Honor Mode campaigns. Yeah, it’s tough!

If you lose in Honor Mode, you have two options: delete the save or move it to Custom Mode. Seventy-six percent of players chose to delete their saves, while 24% moved their character to Custom Mode. (Moving your save to Custom Mode means you have not completed Honor Mode.)

Larian also published a bunch of other stats, just like eight months ago. The top three characters have changed: before it was Gale, Astarion, and Karlach; now it’s Astarion, Gale, and Shadowheart. But of course, 93% of players chose to create their own characters to play. The other terribly important statistic is the number of players that turned into a wheel of cheese has increased by 660,000. That was a huge percentage of the player base eight months ago, but that is no longer the case: Baldurs Gate 3 has “well over” 10 million players across platforms, according to Larian publisher Michael Douse(The 10 million figure is from February, so it’s probably higher.)

The number of people who chose to have sex with Halsin in his bear form hasn’t changed much though: it’s still around 30%. Overall, players have given out over 75 million kisses across the spectrum, but with 27 million kisses going to Shadowheartthe most popular choice for kissing. (“Please give them a break, their lips are losing pixels,” Larian wrote on X.) She’s still the most popular option for romance, with 48.8% of people reaching her “final romance scene,” according to Larian.

There are many more statistics published about Xincluding those discussing endgame spoilers. One choice — you have to click there to see itbecause there are major spoilers! — is so rare that only 34 out of 10+ players have finished the game Baldurs Gate 3 in this way.