I Made EVERY BAD CHOICE in Baldur's Gate 3 So You Don't Have To...

How evil can you truly be in Baldur’s Gate 3? This is something I wanted to see for myself so in my last playthrough I decided to make every bad decision I possibly could.

What’s up everyone - Big Dan here - and in this video we’re going to analyze every bad choice you can make in Baldur’s Gate 3. But this one is going to be a bit different from my other worst playthroughs.

As I was planning out my run - I realized something. It wasn’t going to be possible to cram every bad choice into a single playthrough because some of these choices are mutually exclusive.

For instance - if you raid the Emerald Grove - then Wyll leaves your party - locking you out of some juicy evil outcomes later in the game. Or the fact that we can kill Lae’zel like 8 times throughout the course of the game.

So instead of doing a single run, I’ll be incorporating choices from multiple different characters - to show you as many bad outcomes as I possibly can. This is going to be a LONG video so I’ve put timestamps in the description if you want to explore a particular choice. So buckle up - grab some iced coffee and let’s take a look at every bad decision you can make in Baldur’s Gate 3.

0:00 Introduction
2:39 Character Creation - Dark Urge
3:18 Having Gale's Arm for Lunch
4:13 Lae'zel Death No. 1
4:42 Tormenting the Tieflings
5:24 Kagha vs Arabella
6:45 Alfira :(
7:21 Gnome Tossing
7:48 Karlach and Scratch :(
9:27 Lae'zel Death No. 2
10:07 Shadowheart vs Lae'zel (Death No. 3)
11:08 Astarion's Fatal Midnight Snack
12:00 What Happens If You Refuse to Give Gale Artifacts
12:58 Princess Gut
13:40 Killing Halsin
14:18 Raid the Emerald Grove
15:11 Kill Minthara (Dark Urge)
16:14 HAG EYE
18:42 Betray Mayrina
20:53 Lae'zel Death No. 4
21:32 Lae'zel Death No. 5
22:17 Lae'zel Death No. 6
23:51 Blow Up Githyanki Creche
25:07 Underdark Shenanigans
26:43 True Soul Nere and Philomeen
29:59 ACT TWO - Killing Isobel and Jaheira
33:55 Moonlantern
34:21 Betraying Minthara
35:53 Wulbren Dies in Prison
36:12 More Bad Choices in Moonrise
37:12 Nightsong vs Shadowheart (GONE WRONG)
39:46 Confronting Ketheric & Zevlor Death
40:30 Kill Mizora and Doom Wyll
42:10 Gale's Secret (BAD) Ending
43:50 Don't Lift Shadow Curse
44:27 ACT THREE
44:53 Kill the Emperor (Game Over)
46:51 Eat Astral-Touched Tadpole
48:31 Betray Shadowheart
49:31 Shadowheart Kills Her Parents
50:59 Astarion Bad Endings
55:45 Sell Wyll's Soul
56:58 Act 3 Side Quests
57:36 Wulbren vs Gondians
1:00:54 Osker's Bad Endings
1:03:09 Sacrifice Volo
1:04:31 Betray Nightsong
1:07:01 The Hag Returns
1:07:50 Confronting Orin
1:10:07 Confronting Gortash
1:10:46 Raphael's Deal
1:12:30 Kill Orpheus & Lae'zel Death No. 7
1:14:48 Karlach Becomes Mind Flayer
1:16:21 Betray Karlach and Seize the Crown
1:19:08 Seize Crown as Dark Urge
1:21:34 Gale's Sacrifice
1:25:24 Karlach's Bad Endings
1:25:38 Conclusion

[TheBerryChocolate]

I love how trough this vile and monstrous playtrough you always have a little "astarion approves" flair in the corner whenever you do something evil. Astarion truly is the most reliable moral compass of the game.

[narfoshin]

At the end of the game if you let the emperor kill the netherbrain and you are a mindflayer, there’s a prompt where you can kill him and eat his brain with the dialogue option “there can only be one.”

[mitchcane]

Not killing Nightsong and Isobel in act 2 lets you backstab them in such a spectacular and awful fashion in act 3 that even Bane would be envious.

[Fucisko]

Missing arguably the most evil choice in Act 3, where if you are Dark Urge and accept the deal with Bhaal, Jaheira and Minsc will confront you outside the Temple of Bhaal, and not only can you kill them during the fight, you can use the Tadpole to MIND CONTROL MINSC AND HAVE HIM KILL JAHEIRA.

[epli]

"The death of a child: A timeless tragedy that never grows old" - dang, I just got that line :'D

[leleortega]

karlach's VA performance when you let Wyll get taken to the hells by killing Mizora is so heartwrenching, her work is so good

[vincemcgaj]

In act one you missed the opportunity where you can just take the idol of Silvunas from the grove. This causes the tieflings and the druids to fight and kill each other. This is indeed the easiest way to destroy the grove. no goblin horde needed.

[vincemcgaj]

I absolutely love how your other "I made all the bad choices so you don't have to" videos are only 10-30 minutes but this one is a hour and a half long. I'm supposing the reason why is because there are SO many decisions to make in RPG ever hands down.

[Jenn-lqyu]

Interestingly, if Mayrina is killed by your hands, either accidentally from AoE or directly, when you use the Bitter Divorce to bring back Connor he smells the blood on you and breaks the control of the wand screaming Mayrina's name before attacking you. It was pretty chilling to encounter by accident when I fried her unintentionally with the electric AoE damage from my Storm Sorcerer/Tempest Cleric playthrough.

[haylee_savage]

I think a worse choice for the end of act 2 is letting Shadowheart spare nightsong, then turning over nightsong to lorrokan and turning Shadowheart over to Viconia in act 3. Those are both more deliberately evil

[kittydaddy]

Truly a masterpiece when the game requires multiple "bad choice" runs. This is not a joke when I say a game like this hasn't been made for 20 years. Promised, yes, but actually delivered? No. This game will be a high water mark for most people when it comes to comparing RPGs of the future. That's why other developers are so upset.

[alexanderhavetta]

There is also suprisingly bad ending for Laezell I got on my first playthrough. If you dont go into creche at all, Laezell will never learn about Vlakith being evil. At the start of ACT 3 Vlakith appears in camp and orders Lazeal to kill prince Orin. When you then get to the part where emperor munches his brain. She actually approves with its my quens will to let him die and than after you defeat Elder brain she recites the oath and red dragon comes for her at takes her to Vlakith. As she doesnt know that ascended are immidietly killed and eaten by Vlakith.

[KuroKitsune]

The fact that there are some choices you missed in a video of this length is a testament to how much the game has to offer

[kokokala]

As someon3e who's too much of a wimp to even hurt fake character's feelings i appreciate this as also being someone who want's to see everything a game has to offer.

[cryptic]

Gale just absolutely deleting the big bad of Bg3 is pretty badass not gonna lie.

[krip]

after that scene with the drow's blood, you also have the option to coerce a romanced astarion into sleeping with you immediately after he tells you he doesn't want to anymore because it brings up too much trauma from being used that way in the past :|

[connor]

making karlach transform just to stab her to death is absolutely brutal, wow
“this was all i had…”

[rhaaka]

Honestly there's something just heartwrenching about Gale's Act 3 Solo finale. He never once lets his tone falter in the confrontation, he holds that dry wit until the very end, probably thinking of Tav n gang in the final moments too. Him n Karlach are some of my favorite characters in recent years of games, I genuinely hope I never forget my first playthrough with them. I know I would have never seen this ending, even if I wanted to, so thank you for this video and for making me cry.

[KenadianKenough]

I’m surprised Ethel actually tries to remove it! I figured she was lying so I never let her try, but you actually learn a good bit of information from her attempt and analysis of the power behind your parasite.

[taelion]

Giving the noblestalk to the husband is the most evil thing tbh