Someone has calculated exactly how many hours of recorded dialogue there are in Baldur’s Gate 3, a task so unnecessarily large that even Larian Studios hadn’t done it before.
As reported by PC Gamer, Everwhite-moonlight put together a spreadsheet breaking down all the dialogue in the game: who spoke it, how long the dialogue is, even how many files they speak in.
This survey results in some interesting facts surfacing: it’s unsurprising that the narrator, Amelia Tyler, has the most dialogue at 14 hours, 43 minutes, and 55 seconds. Behind her, though, is Astarion, voiced by Neil Newbon, with 13 hours, six minutes, and 23 seconds. And behind him is Shadowheart, with 12 hours, 25 minutes, and 26 seconds. The smallest amount of dialogue is a many-way tie between numerous NPCs that all have only one second of dialogue, including four different Mind Flayer NPCs. In total, the game contains 236 hours, 55 minutes, and 45 seconds of spoken voice lines.
Every voice actor is catalogued in here, including small lines by random NPCs and even cut dialogue. One mystery that’s arisen, per Everwhite-moonlight, is who exactly voices which Giant Rat NPC in the game. “There are four instances of a character named ‘Giant Rat,’ and there are four actors credited to have played ‘Giant Rat.’ I have separated the Giant Rat UIDs and could tell they are played by four different people, but I don’t know which one is which.” Those actors are Akbar Kurtha, Joseph Capp, Leemore Marrett Jr., and Sean Baker. Now we just have to sort out which actor is which rat.
Another fun bit that’s surfaced from this is that Larian Studios actually didn’t know how much dialogue, time-wise, was in the game. On Twitter/X, Larian boss Swen Vincke shared the news about the finding, saying, “We weren’t really keeping track which I think was for the better.”
Vincke did, however, know the word count of the game’s script, as we learned back in 2024, saying that Baldur’s Gate 3 has triple the word count of The Lord of the Rings, and its cutscene runtime is twice as long as HBO’s Game of Thrones. Holy moly.
For lovers of Baldur’s Gate 3’s particular brand of delightful wordiness, it might be worth tuning into The Game Awards tomorrow, as Larian seems to be teasing a brand new Divinity game for reveal at the show.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected].
