Divinity: Original Sin 2
Build a character without fixed classes, explore a world that responds to your decisions, and combine elemental effects in tactical turn-based battles as a prisoner wielding forbidden magic.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.4 / 10
About this game
Confined in Fort Joy for wielding forbidden magic, you begin by choosing an Origin protagonist with a personal history or creating your own character. Character building is classless: abilities and skills define your approach rather than a permanent profession. Origin characters bring their own questlines, while the world responds to your identity and decisions. Exploration and combat both use those character choices. Racial talents and skills offer different ways to resolve quests and puzzles, while battles take place in turns. Fire, ice, water and poison can form layered effects, making the combination of abilities part of your tactical planning. Preset classes provide an initial template if you want a starting point before shaping your own build.
Collected in topics
Turn-based tactics picks
Think through turns, positioning and commands, weighing immediate advantages against the risks that your next decisions may create.
Collected in series
Divinity is Larian Studios' fantasy franchise, inviting you to explore Rivellon, develop your characters and experiment with ways through a quest. Its role-playing games span action combat and tactical party battles, with a strategy-focused branch adding another way to visit the setting.
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AI review
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Best considered by players who enjoy inventing builds and testing tactical solutions.
Classless development and layered elemental effects could make experimentation the main attraction rather than merely a way to increase damage. Quest solutions that use character talents extend that freedom beyond combat, rewarding an interest in how systems interact.
Strengths
- Elemental combinations give build choices a concrete role in battle planning.
- Talents that affect quest solutions may help a chosen character identity matter outside fights.
Weaknesses
- Open-ended character building may feel demanding if you prefer a tightly prescribed class progression.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy turn-based decisions, unusual ability combinations and finding their own way through role-playing situations.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Personal Origin quests and alternative quest solutions may encourage detours and deliberation rather than a single prescribed approach. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Combining character abilities with elemental effects should appeal most when experimenting with a solution is part of the fun. | Reviewed | 9.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension A protagonist persecuted for forbidden magic, in a world that reacts to identity and decisions, offers a coherent basis for role-playing that outsider position. | Reviewed | 9.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Preset class templates offer a useful starting point for players who find unrestricted initial character setup daunting. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Larian Studios
- Publisher
- Larian Studios
- Release date
- Dec 15, 2025
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
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- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Main Story 100 Hours or MoreFantasyClass BuildsTop-downOnline Co-opStory-drivenBranching ChoicesExplorationTurn-based Tactics
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
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- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2017
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideDec 15, 2025
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
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