Baldur’s Gate 3 players are disappointing their parents by romancing monsters

Sorry to tell you this, Baldur’s Gate 3 fans. It’s too late to hit Alt+Tab. Your family already know how weird you are.

Top-class storytelling and expansive combat system aside, one thing that Baldur’s Gate 3 fans really love about the game is its eclectic roster of possible love interests. Even vampires and tieflings start to seem vanilla when compared to some of your in-game sweethearts.

Thankfully, your beloved’s virtual nature means you’ll never have to worry about bringing them home to the parents. However, one poorly-timed over-the-shoulder glance at your gaming session could leave your family with an eyeful of the most intimate moments of your fictional dalliances. Yikes.

Baldur’s Gate 3 player’s parent finds them in questionable Mind Flayer scene

One player took to the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit to share an awkward account of their father walking in on them while their character was locked in a tender-tentacled moment with The Emperor. Understandably, their first reaction was a state of humiliated panic. As they put it, “I think it’s time for me to either die or move out. My relationship with my father is forever tainted.”

Turns out, they’re not the only one who regrets not leaving a tie on the door handle while playing Baldur’s Gate 3. A commenter on the thread admitted they had their mother interrupt them during their The Emperor scene too.

Scenes with Karlach the big red babe are not immune to parental exposure either. In one case, the player’s mother was oddly inquisitive about the whole affair: “Her asking me “Why are you two naked? Why is she picking you up? What is she doing?” and then going “Oh.” and fleeing my room was equal parts embarrassing and hilarious.”

Of course, there’s also the rarer case of role reversal, where parents wind up getting caught by their children. One father explained: “I live in absolute horror of my kid walking in on a romance scene. He plays the game too, but he doesn’t need to know that I would leave his mother for Bae’zel [bae Lae’zel] without a second thought.”

Despite OP’s fears of having permanently damaged their father-daughter relationship, their dad was apparently “super chill” about the whole situation in the end. So take that as full permission to let your freak flag fly, monster lovers.