Some people believe that a score of 96 means that if you would take 100 random gamers, 96 of them would like the game. That is complete nonsense. There is absolutely no mathematical correlation between a game's review score and it's probability that somebody will like it. The fundamental reason for that is that any review score has an invisible "within its genre" qualifier attached to it. Elden Ring has the same review score as Baldur's Gate 3, and there are a *lot* of people who like one of these much more than the other, because the other just isn't their style / genre. If you strongly dislike the inherent slow speed and fiddliness of complex turn-based CRPGs, and much prefer simpler action games, even a mediocre game of the right genre might very well be a better fit for you than Baldur's Gate 3. There simply aren't 96% of gamers that like turn-based games.

The other problem with review scores is the imperfect process of people reviewing games. For example Baldur's Gate 3 has an extremely polished Act I, due to that being the part that got all the user input during 3 years of early access, and less polished Acts II and III, with reportedly some serious bugs in Act III. But Act I is so big that a typical reviewer who wasn't already playing early access probably never left Act I before writing his review. If in an alternate universe Baldur's Gate 3 would have lots of bugs in Act I and have an extremely polished Act III, it's review score would be a lot lower. On the other hand, you should probably dismiss my complaints about Baldur's Gate 3, because they are coming from somebody who has played that game for over 200 hours now. After such a long time, certain things in any game start to grate on you. These are complaints at an extremely high level, which aren't relevant for you if you are still asking yourself whether you should buy the game or not.

If you generally like turn-based tactical and role-playing games, you probably should buy Baldur's Gate 3. There is no guarantee that you will like every aspect of it, but overall it is not only a very good game in its genre, but is at a point where it will be used as a reference for years to come. If you never played a turn-based CRPG before, there is no saying whether you will like BG3 or not. Unlike Elden Ring (where I had to use a cheat mod to be able to play it), you can turn down the difficulty level of BG3 to a point where you'll be fine even if you haven't got a clue about D&D combat. You don't need to "git gud" to play Baldur's Gate 3, you can just play it as a story experience. Then it mostly depends on whether you like story experiences; BG3 has tons of cinematic cut-scenes and voiced-over dialogue, but again not everybody likes these things. In general, watching some Twitch streams or YouTube playthroughs for a while is probably going to give you a better response on whether this is the game for you than any review score.