Baldur's Gate 3 dev secretly wrote the D&D RPG's release date on a whiskey bottle in a bar 5 years ago, but somehow "nobody found it" and it "never leaked"

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing Astarion, a pale male elf with short curly white hair and red eyes, looking over his shoulder with a smirk on his face.

Nearly two years have passed since Baldur's Gate 3 released in August of 2023 and became a pillar of the RPG genre – but apparently, its launch date was out in the wild long before then.

Larian Studios publishing director Michael "Cromwelp" Douse reveals as much in an online post, admitting that he sneakily wrote the Baldur's Gate 3 release date down on a random bottle of whiskey in a bar five whole years ago – pre-pandemic and all. "5 years and a pandy ago," writes the lead, "I wrote the BG3 release date on this bottle of whisky and let it hang at the bar, and nobody found it."