Steam survived the onslaught of players downloading Baldur's Gate 3

The huge RPG couldn’t be pre-loaded

Baldur’s Gate 3came out earlier this evening. It couldn’t be pre-loaded before launch and having already installed the Early Access versionwasn’t an alternative, which means a lot of people were trying to download the 122GB RPG at the same time.

Steam held up to the onslaught - mostly.

Steam makes various stats available, including bandwidth used in the past 48 hours. You can seethe Baldur’s Gate 3-shaped spikefrom the moment where bandwidth usage leapt from under 20,000Gbps (gigabits per second) to a peak of 146.3Gbps at the moment of release.

Baldur’s Gate 3 wasn’t available to reviewers until earlier this week, which means we need more time to bash through a game that’s apparently 80+ hours long. We do have amaking-of interview with Larian, instructions onhow to get the best performance, and a look athow it runs on Steam Deck, however. Plus, our guides team have a guide onhow to move that damned scuffed rock.