Baldur's Gate 3 player wins the game while playing as Cheese (2024)

A gaming YouTuber has captured the creativity of Baldur’s Gate 3 to the extreme by playing the entire game as a piece of cheese. This particular player used his gaming expertise along with stamina, luck, and mods to complete the campaign of Baldur’s Gate 3 with a party full of cheese wheels.

Baldur’s Gate 3like the other entries in the Baldur’s Gate Series based on the world of the classic TTRPG Dungeons and Dragonsand also adopts many of the rules, structures and mechanisms. Dungeons and Dragons has long been known as a game that allows for almost limitless creativity within its framework. As a result, there are so many ways to hilariously overbuff a Baldur's Gate 3 Party because it concerns certain aspects of the Baldur’s Gate History, and players like Bouch are constantly looking at what they can get away with.

In his video uploaded to YouTube, Bouch explains how to become cheese and what it takes to win the game this way. Normally, you can become cheese by getting to the Circus of the Last Days, but Bouch used a specific mod for a group spell but replaced the spell with Polymorph Cheese in the game's code. Cheeses don't have many abilities and can only jump, perform unarmed strikes, and use a spell called “Cheese Smell” which prevents enemies susceptible to nausea from attacking for two turns. The entire cheese party has an AC of 10, as well as 10 Strength, 10 Constitution, and 10 Dexterity. To make matters worse, each cheese only has 1 HP, making for a difficult adventure.

To counteract this, Bouch made his entire group into monks. He explains the bonuses that Baldur’s Gate 3's Monk class, including bonuses to AC and attacks when not carrying weapons, along with others granted as the Cheeses level up. As Cheese, they could still carry things, including explosives and treasure they picked up along the way, and while neither could cast spells, they could still use spell scrolls like Feather Fall and Thunder Wave. And while they couldn't interact with most characters, including shopkeepers, Bouch found a way around this by interacting with some of the items the shopkeepers sold. This allowed him to sell items to buy more spell scrolls.

Baldur's Gate 3 offers players more than just a way to play Cheese

But there were some areas of the game that Cheese simply didn't have access to. In order to interact with certain items that advance the story, the party was forced to temporarily abandon their milk disguise. Bouch also occasionally resorted to summons in situations that would have decimated each Cheese's one HP. Fortunately, there are a variety of useful summons in Baldur’s Gate 3especially for a cheese party. Bouch also noted that he had to rely on a fair amount of luck and timing to avoid certain areas and survive certain encounters. There were a few other soft-locking moments that required touching a character with your hands, but either way, Bouch was victorious.

One of the appeals of Dungeons and Dragons is that there are almost infinite methods to achieve a goal, and it actually feels like almost anything is possible in Baldur’s Gate 3. Although it is not advisable for new players to try to beat the game as a cheese wheel, it is definitely the most effective way to cheese Baldur’s Gate 3and certainly gives the term a new meaning.

Baldur’s Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3 is a Dungeons and Dragons-inspired role-playing game developed and published by Larian Studios. It features both single-player and co-op modes. Players create their character by choosing a starting class, taking on quests, leveling up, and engaging in turn-based combat following the D&D 5th Edition ruleset.

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Baldur’s Gate

Approved

3 August 2023

Local co-op support

1-2 players