Summary
Hard to believe, but we are fast approaching the first anniversary ofBaldur’s Gate 3. This time last year hype for the game had shifted up multiple gears when Larian revealedplayers would be able to have sex with a bearin the game. Baldur’s Gate 3 was released a month later and well, the rest is history. A year later, the hype still hasn’t died down all that much. The game has so much to offer that you can play it for hundreds of hours and keep experiencing things you’ve never seen before, and now you can do that while listening to its soundtrack on cassette tape.
The Baldur’s Gate 3 OST cassetteoriginally went on sale exclusively to attendees at PAX Eastback in March. Larian promised the unique version of the Game of the Year’s soundtrack would be available to everyone else and four months later, it has delivered on that promise. The double-sided cassette tape is available to buy now and while $50 might seem like a lot for a tape, it does come with an exclusive set of enamel pins.
This particular version of the OST also comes with an exclusive track that you can’t find online - a synthwave version of Down By The River called Down By The Synthwave. Play that in the background the next time you check in on Karlach and Shadowheart and it’ll feel like you have been transported back to the 1980s, a time not only before streaming, but when tapes were the primary way of listening to music before CDs were popularized.
Cassettes Are Cool Again
Baldur’s Gate 3 Soundtrack Cassette
Larian has put the Baldur’s Gate 3 soundtrack on a double-sided cassette tape. The special edition OST comes with a set of enamel pins and includes a track you won’t hear anywhere else - a synthwave version of Down By The River called Down By The Synthwave.
The two sides of the tape combine for 60 minutes of music from Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s not the first game to have had its soundtrack transferred to cassette tape recently.The lo-fi version of the Kingdom Hearts OSTis also available on cassette. Clearly that particular method of listening to music is back in vogue and we may be on the cusp of almost everything getting a special release on tape. Being old enough to remember when tapes were still a thing, I’m starting to think this is what the generation above me felt like when everyone started listening to records again.
Continued support for Baldur’s Gate 3, not just via updates but new ways to experience the game, its music, and more, is great to see, especially afterLarian confirmed if there’s going to be a Baldur’s Gate 4, it will be handled by another studio. The studio will create something else via whatever its next game will be,citing the constraints of D&D combatas one of the reasons why it wants to move on from Baldur’s Gate despite its success.
