Cover art for the video game
Cover art for the video game "Baldur's Gate 3."
  • People have spent 8,196 years making video game characters in "Baldur's Gate 3," its developer said.
  • That's a collective 3 million days since the game launched in August.
  • There's still the rest of the game to account for, with an average play-through taking up to 100 hours.

War, George Santos, and AI doomsday talk — there's a lot for the human mind to escape from this year.

And it turns out millions of people have been doing so through the video game "Baldur's Gate 3," spending a collective eight millennia crafting fantasy characters, according to new statistics from developer Larian Studios.