You May Never See The Baldur's Gate 3 Ending Everyone Wanted

The best ending is incredibly rare. There are something like 17,000 possible endings to in the wide variety of quests, dialogues, and epilogues that can play out in its final chapters. Some are good, some are bad, and some are neutral, but they all come with at least a little bit of sacrifice. Whether it's choosing one lover over the other or one side of the central conflict, players are always missing out on something; there's no way to see absolutely everything on a first playthrough.

[Warning: This article contains story spoilers for BG3's Act Three, and one potential ending.]

A few endings, though, are even worse: they require players to commit to huge choices that change the entire game. It's only sensible — there's a good reason why, say, the Dark Urge endings are exclusive to Dark Urge playthroughs. This isn't always a bad thing, as the specificity of these rare endings makes them a better fit for the particular choices that trigger them. However, while most of these endings are niche, the best possible ending to is locked behind a highly unpopular decision

There's a highly rare ending that'll let players have their Illithid cake and eat it too, but this ending is only available when playing Gale as an Origin character. The first and second act of the game are centered on the Illithid tadpoles inside the main party's heads. They're supposed to turn them into Mind Flayers eventually, but for some reason, they don't. In Act Three, a larger conspiracy is revealed: the Netherbrain, a highly evolved Mind Flayer, intends to implant the entire population with parasites, turning them all into Mind Flayers made to do its bidding.

But in order to beat the Netherbrain, the party needs a Mind Flayer to help them. They can side with The Emperor, but doing so meanskilling Orpheus in , which is unpleasant and can draw Lae'zel's ire. Alternatively, someone in the party can become a Mind Flayer. This results in a pretty significant power boost, but again, it's very