Is The Pope playing ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’? Hit game sells copies in Vatican City

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Baldur’s Gate 3 has sold copies in Vatican City, with fans wondering if The Pope has been playing the fantasy role-playing game.The Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with just 764 residents living there.

Each citizen has to be considered to be influential or significant within Catholicism to live there and residents include religious leader Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church.It’s perhaps why Larian’s director of publishing Michael Douse found it so funny that according to their data, two copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 have been sold in the country while another resident has it on their wishlist. “Sold two copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 in The Vatican, with one wishlist.

I’d like to think the latter is just the Pope waiting until he has a free minute. Wish I could see their mod list. Bet it’s absolutely gnarly,” he wrote on social media.Sold 2 copies of Baldur's Gate 3 in The Vatican, with 1 wishlist.

I'd like to think the latter is just the Pope waiting until he has a free minute. Wish I could see their mod list. Bet it's absolutely gnarly.— Very AFK (@Cromwelp) November 11, 2024The news has inspired a debate online about which Baldur’s Gate 3 character is the most religiously pure and what the pope would make of all the romancing options that are in the game.It’s not the only time gaming has crossed paths with catholicism this year either.