Baldur's Gate 3 hasn't stopped winning yet. It's won the most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy.

You'd think that after more than a full year of release, Baldur’s Gate 3 had finally stopped winning awards. You would be wrong. Larian's epic role-playing game has won a Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive work, the most prestigious award given in science fiction and fantasy.

The Hugo Awards were first presented in 1953. They are voted by the World Science Fiction Convention. They recognize excellence in a variety of categories, such as Best Novel, Best Novella and Best Short Story.

In 2021, a special category for videogames was added to recognize the increased impact videogames had during the early days of Covid-19. However, it was only a one-off. No Hugos were awarded in 2022 and '23.

In 2023 however, Worldcon voted that the Best Game or Interactive Work be a permanent category in 2024--and wouldn't you know, it was just in time for Baldur's gate 3 to smash through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, and run away with it. BG3 won the prize over Alan Wake 2 (again), Chants of Senaar Dredge, The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and Star Wars Jedi Survivor.

Swen Vincke, the Larian boss, said in his acceptance speech that "the Hugo nominees have determined my reading lists since forever."

"Videogame writing often gets underrated." It's very, very hard work. We had to create 174 hours of cinematics for Baldur's Gate 3 just to respect the choices made by the players, and to ensure that every single player would have a story that reflected their choices and agency. It takes a long time and a large team to create a game. It takes a great deal of talent and perseverance. "I'm so happy for them all and for the entire team back home, that we can achieve this. And I am very grateful to the fans."

Vincke is not kidding when he claims Larian wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to be as reactive as possible to the player's choices. The studio revealed recently that only 34 players have unlocked the rarest ending of the game--and this is a title that has sold over 10 million copies. (For some context, 1.9 millions Baldur's Gate players were transformed into a wheel of cheese. It's fine: The man with the most cheeses has more friends than anyone else.

I wouldn't dare to make any predictions, but I think Baldur's Gate 3 will stop winning awards very soon. We're surely reaching the point when someone somewhere will say look at us, we need to start awarding trophies to other people . Vincke may not mind, but I doubt it. He stated in July that Baldur's Gate 3's award haul had become a problem, and that the studio began sending "rotating" teams to ceremonies so as to avoid disrupting development.

Vincke, the studio's director, said that they did not want to abandon any of the events. "Because we value them," he said.