Divinity: Original Sin 2
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a PC role-playing game developed by Larian Studios. It centers on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.9 / 10
About this game
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a PC role-playing game centered on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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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Exceptional systemic freedom with demanding quest tracking.
The 2017 Windows Original Sin 2 repeatedly allows unlikely plans to work. Teleportation, elemental reactions, custom skills and distinct origin characters give battles and quests meaningful alternative routes. Companion stories make the race toward divinity personal, while co-op, an Arena and Game Master tools extend play beyond one long campaign. Writing and voice work move confidently between absurd humor and grim stakes, helping a reactive world feel inhabited. The cost of so many connected possibilities is information overload: the contemporary PC review finds the journal difficult to parse when objectives cross over. Its reported test system is Windows 10 with an i5-3570K, 8 GB of RAM and GTX 970; that evidence says nothing about the protected Switch 2 edition. The assessment is deliberately bounded to the original 2017 PC build, excluding later Definitive Edition revisions.
Strengths
- Flexible combat, origin stories and cooperative creation.
Weaknesses
- Intertwined quests burden the journal and newcomers.
Who it is for: RPG players eager to read, experiment and plan.
Play notes: Only the 2017 Windows original; Switch 2 is separate.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Considerable scope rewards commitment despite quest-tracking friction. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Flexible systems create substantial tactical and role-play agency. | Reviewed | 9.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension A reactive world gains force from its writing and performances. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension PC flexibility comes with a significant information-management burden. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Larian Studios
- Publisher
- Larian Studios
- Release date
- 2017
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- 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
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsSolo-friendlyExplorationLong-term ProgressionTurn-based CombatStory-drivenFantasyMain Story 20–50 HoursLevel ProgressionThird Person
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- 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.com