This is a full walkthrough of all the quests in Baldur's Gate 3 (BG 3). Read on to see walkthrough guides for the main campaign, side quests, companion quests, origin walkthroughs, and more!
List of Contents
- Main Quest Walkthrough
- Act 1 Walkthrough
- Act 2 Walkthrough
- Act 3 Walkthrough
- Companion Quests
- Side Campaigns
- Main Campaign FAQs
- Related Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3) Guides
Main Quest Walkthrough
Baldur's Gate 3's story is split across main quests in three acts. Check our full main quest walkthrough guides across all three acts below — from the Prologue, all the way to act 3's finale!
All Main Quest Walkthroughs
Act 1 Walkthrough
Prologue: Escape the Nautiloid
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►How to Free Shadowheart |
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Note: Players can opt to help the Mind Flayer take on Commander Zhalk in the bridge to obtain a powerful early game weapon called the Everburn Blade. ► How to Beat Commander Zhalk |
You start your journey as captive within a Nautiloid, an Illithid ship. Opportunities to meet most of the Origin Characters are present throughout Act 1. Basic tutorials are spread in Act 1 as well while you try to remove the parasite implanted on your head by a Mind Flayer.
Escape the Nautiloid Walkthrough (Prologue)
Chapter 1: Find a Cure
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From here, you can explore the Ravaged Beach to pick up Shadowheart and Astarion and Roadside Cliffs for Gale to add them in your party. |
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While optional, exploring the Dank Crypt allows Withers to join your camp and offer respec and hirelings. ► How to Unlock Withers: Dank Crypt Guide |
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After wiping out the Goblins with Wyll, you gain access to the Druid Grove and a lead that the healer Nettie may be able to help you with a cure. Note: Although your main objective is to find a cure, it's a good idea to explore the Druid Grove and complete sidequests such as Saving the Tiefling Refugees, Stealing the Sacred Idol, and Exposing Kagha to gain experience for your party. ► Save the Refugees► Steal the Sacred Idol ► Investigate and Expose Kagha ► Save Arabella |
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► Save the Druid Halsin ► Find Auntie Ethel ► Find Priestess Gut ► Rescue Volo from the Goblin Camp ► Omeluum Location ► Find the Githyanki Crèche |
The Find a Cure questline spans several sidequests where your character chases after leads and people who may know how to get rid of the illithid parasite festering in your brain.
Along the way, you'll meet several important characters, find new companions to join your party, and uncover a sinister plot centering around infected True Souls and the mysterious entity known as the Absolute.
Act 1: Find a Cure Walkthrough
Act 2 Walkthrough
Chapter 2: Infiltrate Moonrise Towers
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From here, you can make it to the Moonrise Towers by seeking out Kar'niss's Moonlatern. But the Last Light Inn mainly provides one way to get protection from the Shadow Curse through saving Isobel. ► Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse► How to Get to the Moonrise Towers ► How to Beat Kar'niss |
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Isobel will be able to provide you some protection from the Shadow Curse if you save her. If not, you must find another way through finding a Moonlantern. More answers are to be found by infiltrating the Moonrise Towers, so you must make your way there after wrapping up business at the inn. Note: Halsin has a quest tied to the Last Light Inn if you have him in your camp by saving the Emerald Grove. Make sure to find Art Cullagh in the inn for lifting the Shadow Curse. ► Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse► How to Lift the Shadow Curse ► Help He Who Was ► Find Zevlor ► Rescue Wulbren ► Rescue the Tieflings |
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Find this relic in the Gauntlet of Shar to progress the main story. If you sided with Minthara and she is alive after defeating the Emerald Grove, she can be potentially recruited to your party (when saving her from the Moonrise Towers prison) Note: Entering Shadowfell where the Nightsong resides is a point of no return. Make sure to wrap up all of your quests in the Shadow-Cursed Lands and previous areas. ► Gauntlet of Shar► How to Solve the Silent Library Puzzle ► Find the Nightsong ► How to Kill Yurgir ► How to Beat Gerringothe Thorm ► How to Beat Malus Thorm ► How to Beat Thisobald Thorm ► How to Beat Balthazar |
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Completing this objective will reveal more about the Mind Flayers, and will point the player to Baldur's Gate. Leaving the Shadow-Cursed Lands through the road to Baldur's Gate is another point of no return. ► How to Beat Ketheric Thorm► How to Solve the Necrotic Laboratory |
After learning more about a potential cure and the increasing presence of Mind Flayer Parasites leading to the Moonrise Towers, you make your way to the Shadow-Cursed Lands via the Underdark or the Mountain Pass.
Infiltrate Moonrise Towers covers the beginning of the Shadow-Cursed Lands, from making it to the Last Light Inn up to taking down Ketheric Thorm. It is here that you meet new potential allies, a large amount of fiends and undead monstrosities, as well as learn how to navigate around the dangerous Shadow Curse affliction.
Act 2: Infiltrate Moonrise Towers
Help Your Protector
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Fend off the Githyanki ambushers and enter the portal to the Astral Prism within 3 turns before the Absolute commands you to undergo ceremorphosis. Note: Failing to enter the portal within 3 turns will result in the Absolute dominating your mind. This allows it to command you to undergo ceremorphosis, resulting in a Game Over screen. |
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Note: Killing your Dream Visitor will result in a Game Over screen. It is not possible to kill the Dream Visitor and continue the game as normal. |
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Note: Opening your mind or consuming the tadpole will change the appearance of your character. As of Patch 1, you will get both a blackened visage as well as rotting teeth if you undergo partial transformation. ► List of All Illithid Powers |
The end of Act 2 will finally allow you to meet your Dream Visitor, face-to-face. During your time on the road to Baldur's Gate, you will be assaulted by the command of the Absolute which triggers the protection of the Astral Prism.
However, due to your Dream Visitor getting overrun by Githyanki inside the prism, it is up to you to help them in order to prevent your protection from the Absolute from going out. Fail, and you risk a Game Over.
Act 2: Help Your Protector Walkthrough
Act 3 Walkthrough
Get Gortash's Netherstone
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► Solve the Open Hand Temple Murders |
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Note: Teaming up with Gortash is possible. However, he won't be much help as all he does is die during your confrontation with the Elder Brain. ► Investigate the Murders► How to Rescue Orin's Victim ► Get Orin's Netherstone |
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► Avenge the Ironhand Gnomes ► Rescue the Grand Duke |
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After arriving at Rivington at the start of Act 3, your next order of business will be to deal with Gortash and Orin. To retrieve Gortash's Netherstone, players will need to disable his Steel Watch before confronting him inside the Flaming Fist headquarters known as Wyrm's Rock Fortress.
Get Gortash's Netherstone Walkthrough
Get Orin's Netherstone
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Upon completion, you will gain access to the Lower City of Baldur's Gate and learn the name of one of Bhaal's chosen killers - Dolor the Red Dwarf. ► Solve the Open Hand Temple Murders |
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Note: Regardless of your decision regarding the deal, Gortash will mention that one of your camp followers is a Shapechanger. ► Should You Invite Yenna to Your Camp?► How to Rescue Orin's Victim |
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Prevent Dolor from killing Cora Highberry and Figaro Pennygood to obtain his Hand Bag and the Torn and Bloody Page quest items that allow access to the Murder Tribunal. ► Investigate the Murders |
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Find the hidden button behind the Butterfly on Skull painting to reveal the cellar door leading to the Murder Tribunal. |
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Become an Assassin of Bhaal or defeat Sarevok to get the Bhaal Amulet - the key needed to reach the Temple of Bhaal underneath the city. |
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After arriving at Rivington at the start of Act 3, your next order of business will be to deal with Orin and Gortash. To retrieve Orin's Netherstone, players will need to unravel the Bhaalist plot in the city. Track down Dolor the assassin and defeat him to access the Murder Tribunal. Pass Bhaal's tests and enter the Temple of Bhaal to challenge Orin for her Netherstone.
Act 3: Get Orin's Netherstone Walkthrough
Confront the Elder Brain
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This is the final main quest of Baldur's Gate 3 and it is a point of no return. Wrap up your business in the Lower City before confronting the Elder Brain at the Morphic Pool. Side with either the Emperor or Orpheus and dominate the Crown of Karsus to end the Absolute threat once and for all.
Act 3: Confront the Elder Brain Walkthrough
Companion Quests
Companion Quests are quests that are tied to specific characters that join your party throughout Baldur's Gate 3. While split into Origin and Non-Origin characters, all of them have distinct questlines that unravel as players journey through all three acts of the game.
Companions Guide
Origin Characters
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Astarion | Gale | Karlach |
Lae'Zel | Shadowheart | Wyll |
Non-Origin Characters
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Halsin | Minthara | Jaheira |
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List of All Side Quests
Side Quests are optional events that players can encounter throughout Baldur's Gate 3. Click the link below to see a full list of all the Side Quests available across all three acts of Baldur's Gate 3!
List of All Side Quests
Prologue Side Quests
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How to Free the Intellect Devourer | How to Free Shadowheart |
Act 1 Side Quests
Druid's Grove Quests
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How to Steal the Sacred Idol | Should You Save The Goblin Sazza? | How to Avoid Tiefling Pickpockets |
Save the Refugees | How to Save Nadira | How to Save Mirkon |
How to Save the First Druid Halsin | How to Open the Stone Slab | Request Help from Nettie |
How to Investigate and Expose Kagha | Save Arabella | - |
The Risen Road Quests
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Find the Missing Shipment | How to Rescue the Grand Duke |
Rescue the Trapped Man | How to Free Oskar Fevras |
Blighted Village Quests
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How to Beat the Goblins: Blighted Village | How to Open the Necromancy of Thay | How to Recruit the Ogres |
How to Finish the Masterwork Weapon | That Barn: Avoid Killing Buthir | Rescue the Gnome and Stop the Windmill |
Goblin Camp Quests
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How to Get Volo's Ersatz Eye | Defiled Temple Puzzle |
Find the Nightsong | Ask the Goblin Priestess for Help |
Nautiloid Crash Region Quests
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Dank Crypt Guide | The Dying Mind Flayer | Auntie Ethel Quest Guide |
How to Get Owlbear Cub | Spiderling Nest Guide- | How to Open the Selunite Chest |
How to Get Scratch | Should You Heal Pandirna | Underground Passage Guide |
Underdark Quests
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Arcane Tower Guide | Defeat the Duergar Intruders | Save the Grymforge Gnomes |
Find the Adamantine Forge | Deliver Nere's Head | How to Find the Mushroom Picker |
How to Cure the Poisoned Gnome | Help the Cursed Monk | Omeluum Location |
Mountain Pass Quests
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Steal a Githyanki Egg | How to Beat Gremishkas | How to Access Guardian of Faith Room |
Dawnmaster Puzzle Guide | Where to Find the Githyanki Creche | - |
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Act 2 Side Quests
Last Light Inn Quests
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Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse | Rescue the Tieflings | Rescue Wulbren |
How to Lift the Shadow Curse: Where to Find Thaniel | Find Zevlor | Help He Who Was |
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Gauntlet of Shar Quests
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Gauntlet of Shar: All Trials and Umbral Gems | Kill Raphael's Old Enemy |
Mind Flayer Colony Quests
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How to Solve the Necrotic Laboratory |
Act 3 Side Quests
Rivington Quests
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Investigate the Suspicious Toys | Solve the Open Hand Temple Murders | Find the Missing Letters |
How to Get to Wyrm's Rock Fortress | How to Find Dribbles the Clown | - |
Lower City Quests
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How to Get to the House of Hope | How to Get to Cazador's Palace | Rescue Orin's Victim |
Aid the Underduke | How to Get to the House of Grief | Investigate the Murders |
Main Campaign FAQs
How Long to Beat Baldur's Gate 3's Main Campaign?
Game Length Clocks In at 75-100 Hours
According to Larian Studios, Baldur's Gate 3's main campaign will take about 75 to 100 hours to complete. It is also important to note that the developers claim that the game will have 17,000 possible endings, all depending on the player's dialogue choices, companion interactions, and character background (origin).
What's the Optimal Quest Order?
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