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Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot of quests that feel resonant around this particularly spooky time of year. It has an elaborate haunted house that unravels a sordid saga of love and betrayal. It has vampires and vampire hunters. It has shadow monsters that hide in plain sight until you trigger an ambush. But none of these segments got my heart pumping as much as my trip down to the Iron Throne.

Aesthetically, this return to our old pal Sarevok's sunken stomping grounds isn't nearly the creepiest or most unsettling part of the adventure. That would probably have to go to the Mindflayer Colony below Moonrise Towers. It's a murky prison full of evil fish men and some unpleasant surprises, but the somewhat BioShock-esque decor isn't doing the heavy lifting on its own.…