Larian Studios’ anticipated role-playing video game, Baldur’s Gate 3, surprised fans on Wednesday by dropping the game on Steam four weeks earlier than expected.

Well, it was four weeks early after spending six years in development, according to The Guardian. The latest version aims to offer players the freedom of a table-top game of Dungeons & Dragons, in which players make decisions on the fly and the dungeonmaster has to figure out how those decisions might play out. It’s incorporating all of those combinations and permutations of player choices into the game – along with all the non-player character responses – that took so long to flush out.

Players can play one of 12 player classes: barbarian, bard, cleric, druid, fighter, monk, paladin, ranger, rogue, sorcerer, warlock and wizard as they explore the world of Faerûn.

While the game came out on Steam for PC on Thursday – and not without its attendant first-day downloading problems – those who want to explore it on PlayStation 5 have another month to wait.

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