10 Best Games Like Baldur's Gate 3 in 2026

You finished Baldur's Gate 3, Patch 8 closed the door on new content for good, and Larian is already busy with something else. Which leaves the obvious question: what now?

Straight answer first. Nothing matches BG3 on budget, so nothing will hand you that same mix of full voice acting, cinematic cameras and a party that judges your every move. But the pieces you actually fell for are scattered across a dozen other RPGs, and a few do their piece better. Ten picks, updated August 2026, each with a reason.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is BG3's older sibling. Same studio, same pour-the-oil-then-light-it sandbox, same tolerance for breaking quests in ways nobody planned for. Four players online, two in splitscreen, roughly 60 hours for the main story. The twist is that your co-op partners get their own origin agendas, so stabbing each other in the back is the design here, not a bug.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

If BG3's builds felt tidy, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is the deep end. Ten mythic paths let you finish the campaign as a lich, an angel or a literal swarm of insects, and each one rewrites big chunks of the story. Over 50 hours for the main run. The crusade army layer can be set to auto if map painting bores you, and you can flip between turn-based and real-time with pause whenever.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Same developer, no wizards, plenty of grimdark. In Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader you are basically a space CEO with a warship, deciding what happens to entire planets between fights. Co-op runs up to six players and patch 1.3 finally brought it to consoles. Void Shadows adds around 15 hours and a genestealer infestation aboard your own ship, then Lex Imperialis piles more on top.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Dragon Age: Origins was doing companion approval years before BG3 polished it, and six origin stories mean six genuinely different openings. Around 40 hours, closer to 80 with everything the Ultimate Edition bundles in. It looks its age, badly, so install a mod list first. Combat is real-time with pause, not turns. Worth knowing before you buy.

Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Want the rules exactly as written? Solasta: Crown of the Magister hugs the 5.1 SRD tighter than anything else here, and it treats verticality and light as real tactics, so rope and torches matter. Roughly 40 hours, with two to four player co-op added in the 2022 Lost Valley update and a Dungeon Maker that keeps new campaigns coming. Cheap voice acting, excellent tactics. The sequel has been in Early Access since March 2026.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

Now the curveball. Disco Elysium has no combat at all. Everything runs on dialogue and 2d6 rolls, while your 24 skills argue inside your own skull like a committee of terrible advisors. Ten in-game days, 60 to 80 hours if you poke at everything. Pick it if what you loved about BG3 was the writing and the catastrophic decisions, not the fireballs.

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire added a full turn-based mode in patch 5.0, which makes it a much softer landing after BG3 than it was at launch. You get a ship, a crew and an archipelago, about 40 hours for the story and 55 with the side work. The naval battles are text-based scripted scenes and easily the weakest part. The companions cover for them.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker

Owlcat's first attempt, and it shows. Pathfinder: Kingmaker hands you a barony to run, with advisors and events stacking up while the main quest ticks on a timer. That timer is exactly where a lot of players bail, which is why the kingdom layer can be dropped to effortless. Mostly Positive on Steam, around 26,000 thumbs up out of 33,000 reviews, which sums it up.

Tyranny

Evil already won. Tyranny casts you as a Fatebinder, the conquering overlord's legal enforcer, and opens with Conquest, a choose-your-own-adventure prologue that rewrites the world map before you take a step in it. Short for the genre at 20 to 30 hours, and built to be replayed rather than finished once. Obsidian at its most cynical, which we mean as a compliment.

Pillars of Eternity

The game that dragged this genre back. Pillars of Eternity came out of a 2015 Kickstarter with 77,000 backers and openly copied the old Infinity Engine classics. Around 36 hours for the story, 100 to strip it clean, plus the Endless Paths of Od Nua, a 15 floor megadungeon under your own stronghold. Real-time with pause only, so bring patience.

So which one first?

Playing with friends, Divinity: Original Sin 2. Rules straight from the book, Solasta. A week lost in a character sheet, Wrath of the Righteous. Never want to see another elf, Rogue Trader.

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