Baldur's Gate 3 shipped with one of the deepest companion rosters in RPG history, and yet the community's wishlist has never gone away. Years after launch, players are still lobbying for a set of beloved NPCs who were never recruitable — and Polygon has rounded up ten of the most-requested.

Among the names fans keep coming back to is Alfira, the tiefling bard whose brief role left players wanting far more — a sentiment echoed across community discussions since the game's release.

It speaks to something unusual about Larian's writing: even characters with limited screen time landed hard enough that players imagined entire companion arcs for them. Where most RPGs struggle to make their actual party members memorable, BG3's side characters generated recruitment campaigns of their own.

With Larian having moved on to new projects, these wishlist companions will likely stay wishes — barring the modding community, which has already proven willing to build what the base game didn't. For a game this far past launch, the fact that the debate is still active is its own kind of achievement.