Baldur’s Gate 3 is a sprawling RPG that took years to develop and takes 75–100 hours of “normal” play to complete, according to developer Larian Studios.
So the team might be pretty annoyed to learn that someone has figured out a way to complete the whole thing in just four minutes and 15 seconds.
In the video above, gaming and speedrunning YouTuber Mae uses a technique known as “shadowboxing” (basically killing the character Shadowheart, placing their body in a box, and launching them all the way to a cut scene trigger point for the end of the game’s second act) to essentially skip right the way through to the end credits (for a full breakdown of the bugs that let Mae accomplish this, check the pinned comment in this video).
Does the video make the game look hilariously silly? Yes. Does it undermine the immensity of choice in the game? Absolutely. But is it undeniably impressive? You can’t deny it.
