Baldur’s Gate 3 mods have been downloaded more than a billion times, as Larian celebrates new milestone
Yesterday, the developers behind Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios, celebrated a total of 500 million downloads across 13,000 mods on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. But that’s only half the picture. This milestone only counts for mods downloaded directly through the in-game mod manager. There’s another 500+ million downloads online, bringing the total to more than a billion.
The in-game mod manager arrived with official mod support in Patch 7 for Baldur’s Gate 3, back in September 2024. The game’s modding scene has flourished even more since these official tools were published, and there have been a number of large-scale mods in production that are still yet to be released – the biggest of which is set to be Path to Menzobarranzan.
A billion downloads and a recent Baldur’s Gate 3 modathon
Glance over at the Nexus Mods homepage, and you’ll see that Baldur’s Gate 3 currently has the seventh-most mod downloads on the site, with over 509 million. Unsurprisingly, Skyrim still leads the pack by a long way, across two different versions of the game. Either way, BG3 remains an active modding community. In fact, there was a month-long community modathon throughout July. Nearly 200 new mods were uploaded to the site with the BG3 July Modathon 2026 tag.
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The CEO and founder of Larian Studios, Swen Vincke, proudly posted on X to celebrate the one billion milestone after it was pointed out online, not long after he was celebrating the half-a-billion figure from the in-game mod manager.
Baldur’s Gate 3 received its final major update, Patch 8, back in April last year, so it’s the modding community that keeps the game alive and kicking. As it stands, Larian Studios will not be developing Baldur’s Gate 4 and is instead working on its next Divinity game; Vincke says BG3 will “continue to do well” without them thanks to the thriving mod support.
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