Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

It is rare for me not to finish a game, but this is one of the few I didn't.

Just didn't grab me at all, gameplay is alright but the characters are unmemorable and the story uninteresting. If you want to see what this studio can do play Original Sin 2 or BG3 instead.

I would recommend new players to just use google for the first story quest about solving a murder. It's honestly not fun at all and takes way too long. The game really picks up after that and is actually really good. I do think the way quests can be solved is sometimes really unclear, but I believe this is partly just because of somewhat outdated quest UI.

I forgive Larian for this game, as the sequel is excellent. This one has the bare bones but is let down by some major problems, like tedious quests, linear solutions that you will get bored of finding and the combat did need trial and error at times.
If you're patient, it's nothing special. Not sure how this CRPG ended up overrated, but there's various better CRPGs

takes a bit of time to figure out the mechanics and the crafting system but then the game becomes quite fun.

Except for the targeting in combat, this game is excellent.

This is where the foundations which contributed to the greatness of BG3 were laid down.

It was good. Played DOSII and BG3 before this one, so with it being an older game it was still a wonderful game. Is it as good as the others? No, but all legacies have humble beginnings. There are several points in the game where youre stuck in a dungeon and youre trying to solve your way out but there is no obvious clues or theres a VERY obscure switch... For me that was a huge irritation, also ally NPC characters were terrible in combat.

The voice acting is excellent, combat familiar, story was good, and progression balanced.

DOS: 7/10
DOSII: 8/10
BG3: 10/10

Thought my game autosaved, but it had not, lost over an hour of progress because i accidentally shot a chest and too many people got mad at me to handle, good game. remember to hit save.

Perfect time investment, especially with a multiplayer mate. Easily sank over 21 hours in only a few days, and still in act 1. Can't wait to spend 200+ hours more!

It's a little buggy at times, but extremely enjoyable game!

My first Larian game was Divinity Original Sin 2. I thought it was absolutely fantastic and so I bought Baldurs Gate 3 the day it left early access. It went on to become one of my favourite games of all time and I needed more. Rather than wait for Larian to put out a new game, I decided to give their back catalogue a chance. Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition may be older and lacking in production values, but it was still a fantastic experience that really felt like a Larian game. Like all of the Larian CRPGs I have played, not only is it fully voice acted, but the voice acting is fantastic.

The game has you create 2 characters and then throughout the first act allows you to recruit 2 additional companions. You play as source hunters, essential the magic police, who are sent to investigate a magical murder. This is done both by talking to people and fighting enemies in a turn based combat system. Like all Larian games, the combat is really great and it was neat to see a persuasion system that doesn’t just rely on a simple skill check, although this does mean you can quick save and reload to guarantee a win if you so choose. Overall I don’t think my dialog choices mattered all that much, which was a bit disappointing, but I enjoyed the game more than enough to make that a non issue for me.

Of course the game is missing some QOL features of newer Larian games, but it is much less than I was expecting. The biggest annoyance I have is how slow healing is. I have a healer in my party and I understand why they cannot spam their healing spell during battles, but making me wait 30 seconds between healing each character after every battle does get a bit annoying, especially when I cannot control any of my characters or view their inventories for the first 5 or so seconds after casting the spell. Additionally, I thought that several of the puzzles was not well designed. There were a handful of times that I had to give up and google the solution, only to find something I’m not sure how anyone would have solved without spending literal hours trying hundreds of completely random things.

There was also some wired bugs, like teleportation spells not working in most areas, or attacking an enemy resulting in my charterer walking towards the enemy instead of attacking them like the UI indicated would happen. There was also a small handful of random dialog that had no voice acting, even though the sentence before and after had voice acting. Nothing that I would consider super major, but thees issues were a bit annoying to deal with.

Overall Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition is a fantastic experience. While it may be shorter, taking me only 65 hours to beat, I actually think I may have enjoyed it more than Divinity: Original Sin 2. However, that very likely is recency bias since it has been a number of years since I played the sequel, and I will fully admit my memory of it is quite foggy. This game definitely is not be as good as Baldur’s Gate 3, but it’s also about a decade older and still holds up very well. You can totally see how this turned into Baldur’s Gate 3 and for anyone who played that and wants more or is interested but cannot afford it, I would highly, highly recommend this game.

Ah this game... How can I even describe it? It's amazing. The story is nice, the characters are fun and well written.. And the gameplay its cool and satisfying once you aren't 1-2 lvls under LOL. That was mostly my only problem but once I got used to the game itself it was so rewarding.

But before anything I just want to let everyone know...

Bairdotr queen of MISS ♥

Now go and get the game. It's worth it. Trust me.

Despite it's many virtues game overall is unbearable slog.

Story starts up strong with a detective premise - then almost instantly switches to generic "save the world" formula.

Combat only tries to appear tactical and is too number based to be engaging. All combat scenarios devolve into 3 types depending on your powerlevel:
1.you steamroll everyone with basic attacks
2.you use very specific rotation of ability/elemental combo to CC crowds.
3.you get steamrolled no matter what tricks you use
If you try to use more gimmicky approach to combat, like using teleport pyramids it usually breaks ai completely, making them suicide in numerous enviro hazards.
Enemies often kitted to be as annoying as possible, and prolong encounters instead of providing challenge.

But worst offender has to be pacing. You never really do quests, as any attempt to do so will usually result in you getting steamrolled. Instead - you methodically clear map, killing everything you CAN kill to get those numbers up, to kill more, occasionally getting a popup message that quest is complete. While sidequests offer some variety with puzzles and such - main story comes to a dead stop after you get somewhat acquainted with the first town.

Tone of the game is all over the place, with generally very depressing backdrop, while all characters making jokes left and right (admiteddly, hilarious ones)

I imagine if i played this first, perhaps i'd have a different opinion. but for the people who played the second first like me, you've been warned. definitely one of those games where if you played divinity original sin 2 you're going to be too spoiled for this game. the amount of quality of life made going through this unprepared grueling.

so incridible game, but they remove puzzle of choice decision in second game. i hope it's still there. everyone must be play i recommended.

Must play on hardest dificulties and with less party members.

Ok, I am probably done playing the game. I didn't finish it, but I enjoyed the 40 hours I did spend on it a lot. Unfortunately, the endgame just seems very weak. Early on, you get a look at some of the master spells/skills that your characters will be able to use later in the game, and I found them quite underwhelming. Yes, they are strong and do a lot of damage, but they aren't game-changing. They don't feel like something new, and without something new, the combat gets really repetitive really fast. I found a good setup, and most encounters were just about stunning and charming my enemies. Since the AI seems to be quite stupid, they aren't able to deal with these attacks at all. Just to note, I did play on the tactical difficulty that is supposed to present a challenge, but I found myself struggling mostly in the early game.

The story is somewhat interesting, and the voice acting is on a great level, but there isn't much freedom in the sense that you can change the outcomes—at least I didn't see any options that could lead to that. Still, I didn't find it enough to keep me going.

One thing I did enjoy a lot was the lack of hand-holding. You have to pay attention, actually think, and search the map instead of just blindly following quest markers. This was a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of other games I played.

Overall, I recommend it at a discount, but I would not pay full price for it.

It's a good game (apart from the super annoying source temple part with useless puzzles) and you can really see the groundwork for future Baldur's Gate here.

But compared to it, everything here feels half-way through - characters, story, quests, puzzles, impact of decisions, ... Still worth playing though

I could not judge this game fairly as it is because I've already played the 2nd game beforehand and it's so much better in every way. I'd rather replay that than finish this game. They should drop the price way down.

I was aware of this game's existence way before, but I never gave it a try. I wasn't familiar with what kind of games Larian Studios develops and I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy them or not, so their existence was just a fact in my mind. After the massive success of Baldur's Gate 3 release and after Larian Studios received the Game of the Year award in 2023. I just had to try one of their earlier games before playing my first non-console Baldur's Gate game and so I played Divinity: Original Sin.

In this game, you're playing as two Source Hunters, members of a society founded to hunt down Sourcerers, users of a dark and dangerous type of magic called Source. Your journey starts in Cysel, where a murder was done and since it's suspected that Source was used, you're the one who has to investigate it. Upon entering the crime scene you encounter a weird magical stone later known as Star Stone which activated in your vicinity and teleported you to a world beyond regular spacetime, the End of Time. Slowly you discover that you're somehow connected to these Star Stones and that to be able to find out more about the past of the Source, you need to find more Star Stones. Throughout your journey, you find out that the murder in Cysel wasn't just an ordinary murder and that behind the murder was a powerful Sourcerer who wants to unleash an evil force, the Void Dragon, on the world of Rivellon. From solving a murder to stopping evil from taking over the world, you take the role of Guardians once more.

The writing in this game was very consistent through the story and side quests and I was sometimes confused with what type of quests I was completing. In most games the main story has the best writing and side quests are filler content (like Ubisoft games) or it's the opposite (like Bethesda games), so this is the first time where I felt that both story quests and side quests were of equal quality. The game also has some humour in it, for example, the most evident was when picking items you probably won't need with „What is one man's trash is another's trash.“, there are more examples, but this one was the most evident.

Unlike many other games, where the quests are listed in your journal where you have a brief description and your next objective, the journal in this game is written like a proper journal. The only thing you have are the Source Hunters' thoughts of what they discovered. It's not pointed out what to do next, but it's up to you to understand it, which can be hard sometimes, especially if you end up starting a quest somewhere from the middle, at that point you don't know whom to talk to or where to go and in that case, you have a great walkthrough of all the quests that was supposed to be used if you get stuck (link after the review). You can also use it if you get stuck in one of the game's puzzles.

Before you start your journey, you need to define the look and class of your two Source Hunters. The character creation system offers a plentiful amount of abilities, talents and skills to choose from, where you can truly define what type of character you want to create. Your party can have up to 4 members, which means that you can choose two more companions for your party.

There are 4 different companions to choose from (Madora, Jahan, Bairdotr and Wolgraff) and all of them can be found in Cysel. This allows the player to choose which of the 2 companions will join the Source Hunters' party early in the game. All of them have their background story, but Madora's past is the most connected to the main story. She was a Source Hunter herself and she was posted in Hunter's Edge (a village you're going to visit in the last chapter of the story), but one day the orcs invaded, she got captured, but later managed to escape and from that point since, she tried to seek assistance from the Legion to help her retake Hunter's Edge.

The combat is where this game shines the most, it gives you the freedom like no other game has ever given yet. The combat is based on a DnD tabletop game and it's turn-based, you have action points at the beginning of your turn and it's up to you to see how to spend them wisely. Do you want to teleport an enemy on a lava surface to get an insta-kill or would you like to freeze him for some time? Do you want to make enemies unable to see you by putting a smokescreen in front of them or do you want to set them on fire? A huge amount of different grenades, arrows, spells and skills just wait to be used, offering many other ways to attack an enemy. The goal is simple and how you want to get to it, it is up to you to decide. Make also use of the environment around you and gain an advantage whenever you can.

Unfortunately, the combat isn't perfect, two things stood out as negatives, one irritating and the other immersion-breaking. All characters, both allies and foes are in motion all the time, they don't stand like chess pieces. This is great and adds to the immersion, but what happens quite a lot is when you have to decide which enemy to attack or aim at, you might click just next to it at the last millisecond and you end up spending at least one action point on walking (if you're fast enough to cancel the order with the right mouse click). In the worst case the enemy can get a free opportunity attack (if they have the opportunist talent – a talent that allows the character to get an attack outside of their turn if the enemy passes next to him/her). What I want to say is that you have to be very careful before giving an order, as you might end up losing action points if you're not precise enough.

What is more, whatever difficulty you choose, there are moments when enemies skip their turn entirely. To be more precise, when it's their turn, they, without any reason, just stand at the same spot doing nothing, after 10 seconds the game decides to skip their turn. This can be immersion-breaking not only because you have to wait until the game decides to skip their turn, but it makes some fights easier and it shows that the AI even though it's very capable and smart, can be buggy sometimes.

The game is very rewarding not only because the game is hard at times and you'll feel satisfied whenever you successfully finish a harder fight, but the game also rewards you with various loot, sometimes as much loot as you would expect a Diablo-like game to give. The gear that can be bought or found offers apart from a rating, many other bonuses to the stats of your character or even various spells/skills that your character is probably not able to learn (to learn a skill/spell, you have to read a skill book, that can be either crafted or bought). On top of that, there is also a deep crafting system, but I ended up not using that much apart from when I wanted to create different skill books or arrows.

Apart from the split-screen multiplayer, the Definitive Edition added that every single NPC and every single line is fully voice-acted. This is a great thing, as in many RPG games, I would love to see at least side quests being voice-acted, but instead, you only get text (Yakuza games, for example). One nitpicky thing to point out is that having this comes with a negative, that being that NPCs end up repeating their 3-4 lines all the time, which can be immersion-breaking, but it's still better than nothing.

All in all, this is a great RPG game that offers freedom of choice and a highly interactive world. Some things, like the combat, weren't perfect due to the AI and precision required to successfully order your party members what to do without losing precious action points. However, I think the developers managed to successfully create a tabletop-like experience with plentiful choices. 8/10

Divinity Original Sin Walkthrough: http://www.divinityoriginalsin.com/usergen/ivar_walkthrough.pdf

Amazing story and gameplay, i don't like how the map works.

I am a fan of Larian Studios from the first Divine Divinity and this game is just amazing. The prequel to all good things that had to come, is a must play if you love rpgs and enjoy the humor and the way Larian does things.

Overall it's a solid 8/10 experience. The story is mehh, not good not bad. The game does not take itself seriously so you just ride along. The gameplay is good. I like the way you can combine elements to create different effects. Especially if your ally decides to use lightning in an arena covered in blood and electrifies everyone including you, or you combine fire meteors with poison meteors and instantly kill the main boss.
It did have some minor bugs and I managed to soft lock myself out of some quests, but it is near flawless experience.

For strategy lovers and the likes, one of the oldie games you'd like if you want a challenge. The game is very hard at first but would not like it any other way. The game would not cuddle you and I was thinking of builds all throughout the game. Great game and would try the next one DOS2 after completing my 2nd playthrough.

The game is great. Took me a while to get into the plot. The battles are engaging with a lot of freedom for play style. I really like that healing / resting is quick and uncomplicated in this game so you can continuously keep exploring the maps after fights. The crafting system could be better though as I struggle to use it well.

The voice acting is very well done and its cool to have all the idialogues voice acted, like ALL of it.
I've played BG3 and DOS 2 and I find this game comparably good on most accounts, given that its an older title with limited graphics.

I cant believe that these games go under the radar for most of the casual gamers out there. BG3 brought me to the genre and I just cant stop. Already finished BG3, Div OS2, Path of exile and hoping for more similar stuff.

Right now, I am at the mid-endgame. Im in hunters edge. This game is very fun, however I don't think I would recommend it to everyone. Its very unforgiving. It requires immense strategy. It does however, feel very rewarding. I would recommend this game to any Balldurs Gate fans or fans of the tactical RPG genre in general.

There's a good game in here somewhere, but it's buried under so much crap.

Some of it is unintended crap. For example, when you click on an action icon in battle it will sometimes not recognize that you clicked on an icon so instead your character will start moving to the unseen terrain beneath the icon. This of course wastes your action points and essentially costs you a turn in battle. That's simply not a forgivable bug, especially not in a so-called Enhanced Edition. Tons of stuff like that.

Some of it is intended crap. For example, the final boss fight is basically an escort mission with an NPC made of papier mache that can be one hit by the boss. Somehow they convinced themselves this was a good idea, despite being starkly bad both on paper and in practice. Again, tons of stuff like this.

I've played pretty much all of the must-play CRPGs, even messy ones like the Pathfinder games. This is not merely mess, though -- it's a total mess, the shoddy design rarely let up, and I cannot recommend it to anyone.

I love how amazingly this game runs on older devices. The full voice acting is amazing as well! If you played and enjoyed BG3, consider trying this and part II!

It is a great game with good jokes and nice story))) very recommend for playing it!!!
I enjoyed every second spend in this game.

Playing this in 2025 after BG3 and DOSII - it's charmingly old-school and has that Larian magic! Would definitely recommend to any turn-based RPG fans.

Edit after completing the game: while I found some puzzles really annoying and unnecessary (looking at you, source temple) and combat a bit too slow, I really enjoyed the game! It also made me appreciate QoL improvements in DOSII and BG3 even more lol

I loved the game even though a bit difficult to play after Divinity 2 or BG3 due to quality of life improvements. The game also gets a bit more buggy the further you get in the game. Some voicelines didn't play for me and I couldn't actually finish the game since my savegame started crashing in an unrecoverable manner due to crating and selling too many items 😅. Also the game is for max 2 players. But I still enjoyed the atmosphere and the writing! And I wish I could continue my savegame.

I came to DOS after playing BG3, and while I was a bit uncertain if I would like DOS, it was an absolutely amazing gaming experience. Larian keeps ruining other RPG games for me, because once you've gone through a game like this, many other games simply feel lacking in many aspects.

Great storytelling, amazing characters, interesting quests, great combat, fitting soundtrack, good graphics... this game has it all.

Its a yes for a recommendation BUT with heavy caveats. Tedious. That's one of the more significant drawbacks I found when playing. For context, I've played all 3 of the BG titles(3rd being Larian made) and other similar games over the years. This, to date, was the most tedious to play. I found myself spending a very large chunk of time managing gear, selling/shopping then the remaining smaller chunk of time exploring/completing quests etc.

Story wise, it was... ok. Not robust as some of the other games mentioned but just simply. Ok.

Questing was often times more meandering that it needed to be with some really obscure puzzle challenges that became, yep, tedious. The design of questing didnt need to be so convoluted at times, seeming to just be so to drag progression to make the game seem longer than it needed to be.

I recognize this was the first of the two DO games and some give it a pass for it being how they cut their teeth into the genre more but they could've done better to start.

Graphics even after all these years still hold up and was nice for the game's immersion.

Combat was ok. Rough around the edges. Targetting mobs didnt always work out and the system for ending turns sometimes became annoying between needing to click to end turns or it auto transitioned to the next character's turn... sometimes leading to one clicking to end the turn only to realize it auto ended and you clicked to end the turn of a vital character that hadn't fought that round and losing its combat for said round.

Crafting at first was interesting but after a while, it became, yep, tedious. Also the experimentation for recipes if you didnt learn them already was another time sink. Most of the combinations of items were useless outside of vendor trash(sometimes lucrative vendor trash mind you), but by mid game, if one vendors such things, you end up with more money than you'll really need(I think I ended the game with 400k+). That said though some crafted weapons were very good for come classes vs drops. Others werent.

So if you dont mind the pacing and tediousness, just wanting to play through it so you get context for DO2 which is considered a better game, etc then go for it. Otherwise, this may not be the game for you.

Came from Divinity Original Sin 2 to this game, so was very pleasantly surprised how fantastical this game is. Divinity Original Sin is like a very large book, very difficult to understand and get into at the start, but once in deep enough, there is so much to appreciate and the story is so great that you will want to keep on going just to see what happens next.

The combat is the high point of this game. The interaction between the spells, terrains, positioning and movements are well balanced and keep all the fights engaging.

The only criticism is the pixel hunting for some of the puzzles, and some elements of the game such as dropping items to solve an encounter being used to resolve encounter being used only once or twice making some scenarios far more annoying to overcome to the point where looking for solutions on the internet is required is a problem.

But overall, great game. Highly recommended.

Classic RPG with turn based combat. A good play even for the first time in 2025, tried after BG3 put me on to the genre

This game is brutal on a first playthrough. Hell even on a second one. It's not the combat or the gameplay that is the bad part, it's the puzzles. The amount of back tracking, looking up and reloading just to finish the amount of puzzles in this game is absurd. I played this with my girlfriend and we didn't manage to finish it due to this, but I applaud anyone who can.

Completed in tactical mode. The difficulty level was hard and not very fun until lv 8-9, then gradually became easy and finally became trivial. Great game overall.

The first thing to point out is that you do not really need to play this to play the second one since they're not set during the same time period in that verse, so the only thing you would gain from it for the second game is knowledge of the lore of major events in the verse (which are ImO more than explained enough in the second game to not need the first game at all on these points).

As such, you should only play the first game for the first game. And it is absolutely worth it just with that. Sure, the battle and skill system has aged a bit and feel more barebone compared to the following games from Larian studio, but this is still a pretty satisfying system overall. The story and the various character are good, the dialogues are all voiced over and often fantastic (tip : take "pet pals" for one of your main character to enjoy the dialogues from the animals from the start, they're regularly hilarious, and you have aditional quests from animals with that anyway; so you won't regret it).

The various interactions between each element are pretty enjoyable and satisfying to use overall, making double mage parties in particular a lot of fun and probably the best way to fully appreciate all the tactical possibilities of the game.
This isn't to say that the other possibilities for groups aren't effective (they definitely are), but they'll just be more in-your-face and feels way less tactical due to this (so if you're interested in the tactical aspect of this game, consider playing with two mages in your group of 4, covering all 5 spell types with them).

There's a lot to do, but there is really no hand holding in there. You can absolutely venture into way higher level zones and get obliterated if you are wandering around, and miss a lot of quests/ possibilities if you do not speak to the many NPC. The first chapter in particular of this game can have you be lost quite easily as to where you should go, for better and for worse; as you progress it'll start being easier to know your way around.

The difficulty is kind of frontloaded imo, so I heavily suggest to put the game difficulty at the second highest (highest do not allow you game over, so that's too rought for a first playthrough). The beginning will feel tougher due to the low amount of possibilities you have, but the late game will probably become way too easy if you don't do that (plus, it's the best way to fully enjoy the tactical possibilities if you don't like brute forcing your way through the various battles as well)

Overall, a good game that has started to age a bit but still has way too many qualities to pass on it if you like that type of tactical RPGs.

I got curious about divinity after playing Baldurs Gate 3. The game has aged well, and though not up to date, the graphics are still beautiful to watch. The story is well told, and fun to develop. There are a few frustrating moments, e.g. when you just don't know where and why you need to get more star stone, or because you missed part of the story development because you just overlooked a few star stones.
Should fights start to feel frustrating - then you probably moved on to fast. Just go back to the original area and complete some rewarding quests. Once you are at the intended level, fighting is fun and challenging - well balanced in my opinion.

If you liked Baldurs gate and can live with the simpler graphics and dialogues, this is definitely a game worth playing.

Great game with an interesting plot and cool side quests, long enough to matter but not a behemoth. For completionists, almost 100 hours of fun. Amazing graphics for that era, sound/music is fantastic, quality voice acting, runs very well on older systems

It sports the standard Larian mechanics but with a somewhat limited selection but allows much more specialization or variation, whatever you like. The more you level the more unstoppable you become.

Highly recommend it.

great game, its very difficult to figure out whats going on unless you read a lot. but other than that its a great game once ive finished this one ill get round to playing number 2

Great game, recommend playing on tactician tho cause later on it gets fairly easy even in tactician. At start get lots of cc spells on one character

The game has an interesting story and fun gameplay.
You have to test everything, nothing is obvious, this is great!
Also, the difficulty is really good.

awesome game, immersive, although a bit quirky when trying to path during combat or when line of sight is needed for spells it gets really weird with character and environment hitboxes or slopes, the game doesn't really recognize "seeing their head" as enough so trying to place a fireball between other characters or near slopes or close by other terrain can get tricky but its possiblemost of the time

Just play the second game. This is a much worse game than the second. It's like a 6/10 compared with a 10/10. This is my second time beating the game: and I wished that I just replayed the 2nd game to beat it a fifth time because it's that much more fun. Overall its a good game, just barely.

Larian did an amazing job with this RPG game. Had tons of fun and the content is massive to explore and dig around. 10/10. Would recommend to others

It's Baldur's Gate 3 if it was made 10 years ago. What else is there to say? 10/10 phenomenal experience.

Takes a bit to get into, but once you sort of figure out what's going on, it's a great game. In the spirit of Baldur's Gate 3, you can see all of Larian's ideas in this. Great gameplay, and would recommend for anyone with BG3 withdrawal symptoms.

Game is Fantastic but so Many Blotted item that has no Use.. quest item is annoying.. i hope that if quest is done, the quest item also remove from your inventory.. and amre more...