Question Can You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 Without EVER Being Seen?

[Zane276]

I’ve been experimenting with a stealth-only challenge in BG3. The rules: never be seen—cutscenes, failed sneaks, dialogue triggers all count as invalid. Halfling wizard for max stealth/mobility, and yes, I already had to glitch past some early walls. XP is tough to gain without kills or social checks, but I'm working on creative ways.


If you're curious how I'm tracking or planning it, I’ve written up a few notes and tricks I’m using – feel free to check it out.


Would love to hear if anyone else has tried something like this.

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[Zed Clampet]

I’ve been experimenting with a stealth-only challenge in BG3. The rules: never be seen—cutscenes, failed sneaks, dialogue triggers all count as invalid. Halfling wizard for max stealth/mobility, and yes, I already had to glitch past some early walls. XP is tough to gain without kills or social checks, but I'm working on creative ways.


If you're curious how I'm tracking or planning it, I’ve written up a few notes and tricks I’m using – feel free to check it out.


Would love to hear if anyone else has tried something like this.

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Always interested in hearing about playthroughs like this. Don't have the patience to try it myself, but it's fun to hear about. Good luck with it and let us know how it goes.

 

[Pifanjr]

Always interested in hearing about playthroughs like this. Don't have the patience to try it myself, but it's fun to hear about. Good luck with it and let us know how it goes.

I did find someone who attempted and (mostly?) succeeded already:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCidaWmmZhQ

 

[Zed Clampet]

I did find someone who attempted and (mostly?) succeeded already:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCidaWmmZhQ

I don't see me succeeding with this strategy. I tried to sneak the little goblin girl out of the grove and failed spectacularly, and that was with dice rolls to convince people of the truth, which was that she was going to lead me to their camp for purposes of attacking it (which was probably a terrible idea to begin with anyway).

 

[Pifanjr]

I don't see me succeeding with this strategy. I tried to sneak the little goblin girl out of the grove and failed spectacularly, and that was with dice rolls to convince people of the truth, which was that she was going to lead me to their camp for purposes of attacking it (which was probably a terrible idea to begin with anyway).

I do sneak pretty much everywhere, but only to get the drop on enemies, not to avoid them entirely. If you ungroup your party and trigger a battle with just one character, every other character can sneak up on the combat and get an attack in before all/most of the enemies get a turn and you get advantage on attack rolls as well.

By the way, the creator of the video I posted before has done a bunch more crazy challenge runs of Baldur's Gate 3, like playing the game without using any actions or bonus actions, not using any movement speed or playing the entire game as a wheel of cheese.