Once upon a time, the release of Baldur's Gate 3 was delayed so as not to collide with Starfield. However, it then turned out that Bethesda's game was not that good. Nevertheless, attentive people managed to find a remarkable RPG achievement
The Starfield community paid attention to the metrics of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Bethesda games. It turns out that Starfield, in a sense, beat the Larian game.
The fact is that Starfield became the most “played” (popular) role-playing game of 2023. Indeed, the ratings for Bethesda's new product are not very high and there are not as many awards as Baldur's Gate 3, but there is one outstanding indicator – the number of hours played.
As far as we know, Starfield The hour counter has reached 534,823,944 (the game was released directly on Xbox Game Pass), while Baldur's Gate 3 is at 452,556,984, i.e. clearly less.