Got time to play Humble's latest collection of CRPG classics? Actually, no one does. As of this writing, Baldur's Gate 3 is about 173 hours away from the end of Early Access (assuming it ends around 4 p.m. BST), and according to How Long To Beat, all six titles (plus one expansion) in the "Baldur's Gate and Beyond" bundle " Main + Extras" would take 421 hours to play.

Trying just the Baldur's Gate games would take 159 hours. That's doable if you don't sleep between now and August 3 (PC Gamer doesn't recommend this, but I personally would try it).

But even if you can't experience these blockbusters in their entirety before the so-called science of "Baldur's Gate 3" eats up your August, they're well worth getting. The full list of games included in the bundle includes: the Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Edition (plus the BG1 expansion Siege of Dragonspear), Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition, Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition, and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

If you are excited about BG3 but have yet to experience the masterpieces, you might want to play them again today, as game design in the late 90s and early 2000s was not as sophisticated as it is today.

The best games in this collection are BG1 and 2, and Planescape, some of the best D&D video games ever made, but all are more than worth playing and still have devoted fans today. Even a slightly transitional fossil in BioWare's catalog, such as Neverwinter Nights, has people who would sleep in mattresses for this game in 2023 (I won't name names, but it rhymes with Bed Sitchfield).

The odd duck is Pathfinder, but that's only because it's a modern game in a sea of golden oldies: while Wrath of the Righteous is pretty great: PCG's Jodi MacGregor gave Pathfinder a high score of 76% in her review There it is: in 2021, PCG's Jodie MacGregor gave "Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous" a high score of 76% in her review of "Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous" and wrote, "Finding the right path and solving the world's problems while jogging through fields with colorful friends, it's as if " Baldur's Gate 2' as if it had never ended," he said in his highest praise.