Divinity: Original Sin
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. In Divinity: Original Sin you take on the role of a young Source Hunter: your job is to rid the world of those who use the foulest of magics. When you embark on what should have been a routine murder investigation, you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a plot that will rattle the very fabric of time. 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!
Game Discussion
Steam User 13
Some RPGs make you feel godly by battling big bosses or making heady choices. In Divinity: Original Sin, it's about discovering how you affect the world. I realized the power at my disposal when I used my mage's rain spell to douse the flames afflicting a boat in the starting town of Cyseal. Piff, down went the flames and up went the cheering arms of the rescued sailors. No yellow question marks or blathering NPCs bid me do it; it simply seemed like a good idea at the time. And praise the sun, it was. That's the kind of rewarding experimentation that lies at the heart of Divinity: Original Sin. Discovering how its many complex pieces interact with each other and how its complex and amazing spell system can be used to your advantage is what keeps it going for the majority of its outstanding 60-ish hours of questing.
Steam User 10
Since this is the same game as the Enhanced Edition, I'll simply copy and paste my Enhanced Edition review here:
This game has some of the strangest and some of the funniest steam reviews I've seen but before I get into that, yes I'd recommend this title. Both my gf and myself have loved this game for years. We played and completed this years ago on 2 player and recently started to play our own solo campaigns. This game has literally hundreds of hours of fun to be had.
Important things to note is that:
* it's turn-based combat
* the devs poured humour throughout the game
* the tone of the game changes very often i.e. way more so than other titles of this genre
I mention this as it's easy to see gameplay or read reviews for this however these three things will kill the game for you or sell it to you.
Okay back to the steam reviews! I strongly suggest if you haven't played this before to ONLY check out the reviews that have 100 plus hours of game play on record because offft a LOT of peoples negative reviews is literally based on things that are figments of their imagination or nothing to do with the game.
So a lot of people down vote because, "this game is different from another game" i.e. Divinity 2. Surprising eh? two different games are... different.
Another thing people comment on is the games aesthetics and how they believe it's too "cartoony" > why did you buy it then? Surely you didn't just buy something without looking at it?
I've seen reviews that the writers has stated that they, "understand what I'm supposed to do" however clearly don't have a clue at all. Sometimes, it's because the thing they are trying to do literally doesn't exist in the game. One example of this is that a reviewer literally wanted to talk to a character that isn't in this game and moaned when they couldn't find him.
Lots of people saying it's too hard or they have no idea what they are supposed to do > pro tip, listen to dialogue and read text. Most of the time - if not all of the time - you are point blank told what to do and where to do it. There is player agency duh but progression is never hidden like these players allude/inform. I mean if someone was curious about something particular or was needing help, the fandom wiki is a fantastic resource > use it.
I've never read such delusions before.
Don't get me wrong everything is subjective when it comes to the question of "is this game good enough for you to recommend?" > I get that. I've just never seen so much dishonesty and/or irrelevance before in reviews. The same could be said about what I'm typing sure, that's cool. I'd disagree - obviously - as I'am typing this as a warning to new comers > skip reviews that have less than 100 hours of play time.
BTW the steam mods are awful for this game.
Steam User 2
I played the second one and fell in love with the game. I thought ''why dont i play this one too'', oh boy. It felt harder that the second for some reason. Also the lack of indicators for the quests and the general QOL that was present in the second game is apparent. It's still a good game but i don't know if i will ever finish it. I would rather replay the sequel or BG3 instead.
Steam User 4
The less feature-complete and refined version of D: OS 1
Steam User 0
It's a really good RPG. It may not be the most stable (one particular wheel of cheese in certain cave crashed the game three times until I decided I will pass on it) and the most balanced (Leech x Zombie build RLZ XD) but it certainly is very fun. Highly recommend you play it.
Steam User 0
interesting rpg but i prefer divinity original sin 2. original sin is a very fleshed out and self contained story, but I didn't feel like that story ever did enough to capture or hold my interest to finish it. the gameplay is fine but similarly lacks enough depth to be fun from turn to turn. both are greatly improved in the sequel, which makes this entry obsolete for me.
Steam User 0
Have to second all the positive reviews for this game. I thouroghly enjoyed it. The story was fun, the mechanics were cool and unexpected. The characters and dialoug a delight.