Dragon Age Inquisition
Dragon Age: Inquisition is a PC role-playing game developed by BioWare. It centers on area and route exploration, character or equipment growth, and story, case, or mission progress, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
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- 8.0 / 10
About this game
Dragon Age: Inquisition is a PC role-playing game centered on area and route exploration, character or equipment growth, and story, case, or mission progress. 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.
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Collected in series
Dragon Age is BioWare’s fantasy role-playing series set in Thedas. Build a hero, fight alongside companions and make difficult choices about whom to trust or support. Conversations and personal quests give those companions a place in the adventure beyond their combat abilities.
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An expansive companion-driven RPG with uneven busywork.
Dragon Age: Inquisition on PC joins companion stories, political choices and large regions into a substantial fantasy journey. A four-person party can move between immediate combat and a tactical view, and different enemy compositions give room to adjust. Personal quests, advisory missions and contrasting landscapes help the Inquisition feel like an organization growing beyond a small band. The scale has a cost: gathering errands and timed war-table tasks can weaken the dramatic pace, while combat does not always reward the deeper tactics its systems imply. A direct PC review documents remappable controls, gamepad support and extensive graphics options. On its stated GTX 670 test machine, the reviewer adjusted settings below Ultra for comfortable play and still noted long loads between zones. Those observations describe that configuration, not a universal frame rate. The game is best for players willing to spend time with companions and the wider world. Someone focused mainly on the central plot can improve the experience by selecting side activities carefully.
Strengths
- Companions, political choices and flexible PC settings.
Weaknesses
- Fetch tasks, timed assignments and zone loading.
Who it is for: PC players who enjoy long party-based fantasy adventures.
Play notes: Performance refers only to the cited 2014 PC test configuration.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Rich regions and companion quests are diluted by optional errands and timers. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Action and tactical views offer options, though deep planning is not always necessary. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Companions, politics and distinct landscapes make the broad journey persuasive. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension PC options provide flexibility, while the reviewed rig needs tuning and zone loads linger. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- BioWare
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Release date
- 2014
- 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
- Third PersonExplorationMain Story 20–50 HoursTurn-based CombatLevel ProgressionSolo-friendlyWarLong-term ProgressionStory-drivenFantasy3D Graphics
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
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- Standalone
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- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
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Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2014
- Xbox 360Worldwide2014
- PlayStation 3Worldwide2014
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