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6. Mind Parasite, Make Yourself At Home - Baldur’s Gate 3

When most people picture Dungeons and Dragons, glorious tales of adventure spring to mind. Warm, welcoming taverns overflowing with delicious ale. Brave heroes facing off against noble, terrifying dragons. Solving fiendish riddles to gain entrance to ancient ruins.

Larian Studios, however, have decided that Dungeons and Dragons is all about a bloated, purple worm with approximately 40 billion teeth burrowing its way through the gap between your eyeball and your brain, and making itself as snug as a bug in the deep recesses of your skull. What’s worse, you get a front-row, first-person seat to watch this thing saunter on down to the back of the bus. In this metaphor, the bus is your head.

Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t going to let you forget you’ve got a disgusting, parasitical stowaway nesting in your cerebellum anytime soon, either. Barely a conversation goes by where the ticket-dodging worm doesn’t make itself known, whether by randomly granting you freaky psychic powers, or just causing you tremendously catastrophic migraines. We hope you bought some Ibuprofen.