I used to dismiss all earlyaccess games, but titles like BaldursGate3 and Hades got me to change my mind.
Until recently, early access games — which allow players to buy, play and provide feedback on games during development — still had a bad rap in my mind. Half-baked games that took advantage of the process are what still came to mind whenever I’d see an early access label on Steam or the Epic Games Store. I’d refused to even play many early access games because I was worried they’d go unfinished or not live up to expectations.
Now, I’m starting to more easily accept the strengths of the practice and what it can do for developers. It allows them to earn some revenue back earlier in the development process and lets them work with the community to balance and refine the game’s core ideas. While Larian Studios declined to discuss Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access process with Digital Trends, these sentiments are still reflected in the public early access messaging for games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Hades.
Both of those games have heaps of dialogue, deep RPG systems, and impressive player freedom — all things that require a lot of iteration and fine-tuning to perfect. Of course, they go about those things differently because Hades is a roguelike and Baldur’s Gate 3 is a CRPG, but the fact that both games have such player-focused systems made them prime candidates for early access. There’s no better way to playtest than by releasing the game to thousands of players.
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