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Divinity: Original Sin

2014

Audio: English

  • puzzle
  • role-playing (rpg)
  • turn-based strategy (tbs)
  • adventure
  • indie
  • fantasy
  • historical
  • open world
  • single player
  • multiplayer

The story

Gather your party and get ready for a new, back-to-the-roots RPG adventure! Discuss your decisions with companions; fight foes in turn-based combat; explore an open world and interact with everything and everyone you see. Join up with a friend to play online in co-op and make your own adventures with the powerful RPG toolkit. Divinity: Original Sin is a game that gives you a lot of freedom and plenty of gameplay mechanics to use or abuse. The game's epic story may drive you toward your ultimate end-goal, but how you get there is entirely up to you. Or up to you and a friend, because Divinity: Original Sin can be played completely cooperatively, and features both online and local drop-in/drop-out multiplayer. Great adventures become even greater when shared with a trusted comrade-in-arms!

What it’s like

Isometric fantasy rendered in rich, painterly colour: mossy forests, lantern-lit dungeon halls, and cave systems glowing with fungus and magic. The camera hangs at a fixed angle over the world, so the scenery reads like a storybook map you can rotate and zoom. Combat is slow and deliberate, with turn-based grids where oil, water, and fire interact and stone, bones, and spectral figures crowd the frame. Sound is a wash of orchestral fantasy and ambient tavern chatter, punctuated by spell-cast flourishes and the clatter of crafting. The mood is witty and warm, with a dry, bantering tone that undercuts its darker supernatural material. Violence is frequent and stylised, with skeletons, orcs, and demons falling in bursts of colour rather than realistic gore, and there's plenty of cruelty and danger in the dungeons but little that lingers. Pacing is unhurried: long stretches of exploration and dialogue give way to tense, tactical fights. It suits long weekend sessions, co-op nights with a friend, and players who enjoy experimenting with systems and reading NPCs for clues. Fans of tactical RPGs and clever, playful worldbuilding will feel most at home here.

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