Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

I genuinely enjoued this game but it has multiple problems that I just can't ignore. Firstly I would highly recommend to play this game with friends since it has lots of thing that you yourself would have never found out without anyone else (or google) and the fights would be less boring, but they still are boring, borh with frinds and without them but with them it would be less like this, and you usually don't have enough action point and you can't change in settings that you can't use skill that adds the action points when you don't have any or skills that don't need any and it was annoying as hell when u couldn't use those because uhm well just because. And another problem about the fightings, the freaking miss clicks, you will suffer, just consider this. Secondly the problem that most of the dialogues ends up with fights and if you don't have perusation then you're cooked and mostly the game gives you just an illusion of choice, you won't get to choose most of the time the things you want. Thirdly, as I see since at least this game Larina's never learnt how to do final acts because final act of this game is too overwhelming with so many things and you can't solve some things if you don't read EVERY.SINGLE.FREAKING.BOOK.AND.LETTER. and I'm pretty sure that me and my friends scipped so many things because of that. And fourthly the lever room, whoever created this I have one thing to say, the ticking next to your bed isn't clocks. I would have recommended this game for you but I just can't, yes there are good things but there are a lot of bad things that. I'll give this game 5/10 on the stretch

One of the best single-player and co-op experiences from start to finish. Work together towards the goal or blow each other up. Can be overwhelming and intimidating, but worth the effort to temper impatience and explore each region thoroughly. Look up some guides for builds because there is a lot of versatility. There is a fantastic modding community.

Sebille is my favorite companion character with all the qualities I look for in a wife: attempts to murder you in first interaction, can eat flesh, surprisingly fragile and tender, efficient and deadly hunter.

Fun and engaging. I love the flexibility and detail baked into the game.

really good game, played after baldurs gate 3 and loved it. story is personally better and gameplay more engaging. 9/10

it is one of the best games ever existed.you can discover new worlds and places and fight.i totaly reccomend this game

I played Baldur's Gate 3 first and then this game and I gotta say for me this is equally good. Masterpiece !

One of the single greatest games I have ever played from a depth perspective... and I say that having still never beaten it to date. I have started over more than a dozen times with different characters. I have gotten to the final area twice, lost one save file, and just haven't finished the 2nd one yet.

When I first started playing, me and a buddy essentially spent an entire week going "There's no way in hell that this actually works right? Holy hell it works" About to lose a fight? Put nails in your shoe, use a rain scroll, freeze the water on the ground, then run away and let enemies slip on the ice and lose their turn. Hell, we had a battle come entirely down to my buddy having to completely disarm himself so he could use a bare handed skill(sucker punch) in order to achieve a knockdown on the enemy... had he missed, we would have wiped. So good.

best REAL rpg i ever played, amazing story so many choices and the combat is perfect.

its like baldur's gate III if baldur's gate III was cool and older and funny

Disclaimer: I tried to get into this game in 2025 after having already played BG3. Its unfair of me to compare these two games back-to-back since the only real similarities between the two are shared assets. The game systems are completely different. Having said that, I still think my opinions on DOS:II would still be the same even if I had never played BG3.
I found this game incredibly difficult, unintuitive, and unfair. The difficulty was really high for a medium setting, constantly being killed in almost every encounter. The game often felt like it was cheating systems that I was bound by. for example, having the high ground but not being able to target enemies on the ground because of a half-wall obstruction and out of range but the enemies on the ground could target and hit me no problem. I also found there were a lot of encounters that were completely overleveled. I hit a barrier in act 2 because I couldn't find an encounter that was at my level or one level above and I couldn't find any quests to complete to gain any XP. I was stuck.
I couldn't get into the story. It was mostly uninteresting and it felt like a collection of fetch quests for characters that could have been helpful (and powerful) but for whatever reason decided not to and then remained useless there after.
I think there was a push for the character building to be as open ended as possible, giving the player as much latitude to make what ever they wanted but this game needed some guard rails, it was far too easy to create an uneffective character and spread out precious resources too thinly.
While I still recommend this game for fans of turn-based RPGs, it just wasn't checking off my "its fun" box. I took a two-month break and came back feeling burdened by it instead of feeling excited, that is a sure sign for me to move on to something else.

Great game and still holds up compared to the newer Baldur's gate 3

great game, one of the few games worth buying on multiple platforms

My first Larian Expirience, game feels really nice, looks Great! Fun & Tactical RPG!

I want to like the game, and i'm sure many people will, but to me the combat is limiting. Now some veterans will surely be outraged by this, but i find the armor system to be boring and limiting. To me it seemed like it either limited the possible play stayles, either you run a certain playstyle which could be seen as the "meta" which trivializes this mechancic and results in bursting through the armor and then CC the enemy to death, or you run something outside the "meta" and evey encounter turns into a slog where you are punished for attacking the same enemy with two different companions because they happen to deal different types of damage (magical and physical).
The armor system just isn't fun in my opinion, and sadly it ruins the game for me.

I think the combat, story and presentation of baldurs gate 3 is superior, atleast for "casual" players or players who do not wish to follow the "meta/optimal playstyle". I do however think that the people who do not fall into these categories will find alot of fun in this game and its enviormental interactions to combat.

played it with the original one in other store back in the day, and got it here when winter sale last year, because the mods here is more organized than nexus. play it through act 1 again, refreshing memory how magister is soo annoying b*st**d. and now, still in early act 2. still trying to get to lohar. great game.

Amazing gameplay, high replayability with multiple endings. Just great, I pick it up for a run every few months

Great game. Lots to do. Read the books. I do find myself missing the jump and shove feature of BDG3.

This game was confusing and at times frustrating.
I loved it, it was great. you can bone the skeleton - 6.9/10

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 "The most fun you can have setting things on fire by accident"

Ah, Divinity: Original Sin 2 — the only game where I heroically saved an orphan one moment and accidentally turned my entire party into chicken nuggets the next. 10/10.

It’s got:
✔️ A gripping story that makes you question morality, loyalty, and whether you really need pants equipped.
✔️ Deep tactical combat that’s 30% strategy, 70% “Oh god why is everything exploding?”
✔️ Dialogue options that range from noble savior to complete feral raccoon.
✔️ You can talk to animals. I once spent 20 minutes consoling a depressed crab. No regrets.

Play it with friends for max chaos. Just be warned — trust no one with teleportation gloves. Especially not Steve. You know what you did, Steve.

Buy it. Lose sleep. Start again as an undead lizard wizard. The circle of life.

The game itself is good, and shows Larian excellent skill in writing and game design. Unfortunately i didn't like it

Great game but too much crowd control where you're basically watching your characters fight without any input from you due to (mind control, forced aggro, etc...). I don't like it and i'd like less of it in future games.

Alright game is mega lengthy and completing the game grouped is a very VERY arduous task with grouping. Definitely not as graphically detailed as BG3, but with more simplified and party friendly combat. Not as mechanically deep as the pathfinder or Owlcat CRPG games, but way more accessible.

Think about it as a "Mobile" and more cartoony version of BG3, that has an even more streamlined combat, tho not as much variety of classes/ builds. Only negative I found is that like in BG3, most of the experience and leveling up is done through quest completion, and this makes resolving quests through combat feel sometimes unnecessary. 8/10 game for me.

it is challenging to pick up as a beginer. However, when you get into it, you will not be able to easily put it down. If you are a big Buldur's Gate 3 fan then you will like this game. There are similarities, this game is more streamlined and less features but just as fun.

I tried it after I've finished BG3 and stopped playing after almost 30 hours - plot is not interesting, art/level design is mediocre, characters are not interesting, battle system is annoying (two types of armor, who thought it will be good idea?) and most important stop factor for me - game does not allow you to explore world freely, investigate it and dive into the game atmosphere because you gonna be killed by high level enemies without any chance to level up almost in every battle you will encounter on the second island. Super annoying. I will better replay BG3.

Let's start with a disclaimer - DOS2 is really good, if there was a 'mixed feelings' rating I would choose that. The reason I went for a negative one is because the game is praised so much that I feel it's become seriously detrimental to it...
The main story starts off great, gets better and better and then - just fizzles out. Your choices barely affect anything major - the culmination is a multiple choice 'let's ignore the way you played, which ending would you like?' last dialogue. Being a hero or being a murder hobo? Hardly anybody cares, all's good with the world.
Obviously subjective, but none of the personal quests felt satisfying when finished, I would've preferred them to be double in length and hence deeper. The romance is - similar to the main story ending - a multiple choice question as long as you were nice to people. And you barely see the effect even acknowledged later on.
The freedom of how to play the game is absolutely astounding. You can really do whatever you want, whenever you want. The problem is - apart from quite small things don't expect to 'properly' shape your story...
The battle system is great. Even if it has some downsides (benefiting so much from the whole party focusing on a single thing is a bit restrictive), it feels satisfying and interesting. The 'boss' battles deserve a special mention. And the number of choices regarding your character development is fantastic.
The music is good. I would've preferred more variety but no real complaints here. Similar with the graphics - nothing groundbreaking (even for its time), but certainly plenty good.

So that's the gist of it. Did I like the game? Yes. Will I come back to it in a couple of years like I do with so many others? No. Did I like the characters? Yes. Did I fall in love with any characters? No.
You get the point. :)

A cool experience in the world of DnD, I can't say that I was a big fan of the Divinity universe, but I'm sure that many will like the game. The variability is pleasing, but I was missing something all the way. I didn't finish it, so it's fair to give it an 8/10

Very detailed game. Interesting. Do make sure your computer is able to handle it. Mine was getting sluggish way too quickly. Recommend.

Tough isometric RPG to master, but there are tons of ways to solve things and you it's fun to explore and adventure.

Come for the gameplay and exploration alone, do not play this game for the story or you will be left feeling frustrated, bored and unsated. if you want a good story go play BG3. if you want to feel like a god and decimate enemies late game, play DOS2. 7/10

I've barley reached the end of Act 1, and I got to say this is one of the most interactive world's in video games. There's so many choices and they're not just choices to be made, they are choices that matter and impact the different outcomes of the scenarios and character relationships.

I've played this game for 4 hours, Idk what I'm actually talking about yet, however:

- The combat UI is a lot more functional than the first game
- The story/setup is a lot more engaging than the first game. That murder mystery from the first game just absolutely wasn't it chief.
- Generally just feels less clunky

Basically, I got about 30 hours into the first game and said "ya know, this game is really cool and there's a lot of great things I like about it, but the User Interface is actually one of the worst I've ever seen in an RPG like this and the story is kinda not pullin me in. I'll bet the second game at least fixes some of the UI stuff, let's check it out." and yeah, it's kinda fixing most of the problems I had with the first game so far. Like I said, I even think the story (or the setup rather) is better too, which I wasn't entirely expecting to be the case.

An absolute MUST HAVE to play despite your BG 3 experience. This is a different game but you'll never forget your time playing this game. Totally uniqe exp for RPG (writing it caps really matters here, since this is a deep RPG) game.

Despite all the huge amount of different choices I'd not re-play it again in nearly 5 years (I have a lot to play, and this one is QUITE A LONG game to beat), but I'll be remembering and suggesting it to others quite often.

I'm writing this review after 1.5 years since last time I played this game, but I remember all crew members and their stories and all my game journey so well, so this must tell smth about the game for sure.

The only one drawback I personally noticed here and in BG 3 is NPCs and crew mems are constantly repeating their few predefined phrases in circles all the time when you're walking around or focusing on them. So irritating, especially after 100+ hrs deep. ;D

Brilliant predecessor to Larian Studio's Baldur's Gate 3. I played this game first and was blown away by nearly everything about this game. The combat, story, and art/music are to die for. Could not recommend this game enough.

I know that Baldur's gate 3 is an overall better game because of numerous QoL features,
But DOS2 feels more satisfying in terms of mechanics and story.
Both games are way above the standard rpgs we have been getting.

Engaging world and well built gameplay.

I started playing this after Baldur's Gate 3, and it does not disappoint. The story is fantastic, and the fully voiced dialogue is a real treat! I've already put in 100 hours, and I can't stop playing—it's that good! If you loved BG3, this is a must-have. 10/10, would absolutely buy and play again!

With the amount of hours I have in this game, I can't not recommend it. This game is really one of the best games I have ever played, and it was what actually introduced me to loving turn-based RPGs. This game is flawed, it has many weird issues and inconsistencies, and it is probably one of the hardest games you will ever play (if you play on tactician difficulty), but despite those problems it's an amazing game that has had a somewhat significant affect on the RPG genre. The only real criticism I have of this game is how disconnected Act 4 feels and how inconsistent the AI can be at times, and sadly those issues can't be as easily remedied with mods.
The real charm of this game is the modding scene, the game is simple on the surface but with mods you can add so much to the experience and make this a nearly-infinitely repayable game.

tl;dr if you haven't tried this gem of a game, get some friends together and play it, you will not be disappointed.

Was originally enjoying playing the game. Got 6/7hrs in and all of a sudden the game keeps randomly crashing and shutting it self. So I lost hours of progress. I checked before buying it and my PC would be more than capable of running it. Just getting frustrating now so won't be playing any more as hate having to just redo something multiple times

Lovely game to play with your partner or friend. Take in mind that it takes a lot of time to complete the entire story (It took about 80 hours for our first playthrough). But the story, mechanics and characters are worth it.

Larian clearly understands when to make combat interesting by introducing new mechanics without overcomplicating it. the pacing, relatively simple story and objectives are interesting enough to keep you engaged, but also simple enough to talk with your fellow players while you're playing the game.

While BG3 was much bigger, this game seems to be very clear about it's identity, and executes it flawlessly. And with the amount of content you get for the price it's defenitly worth the somewhat hefty price tag.

A staple modern RPG with enough customization and replayability to make both single and multiplayer last for plenty of time.

Absolute 11/10 Game

by far the best RPG I´ve ever played. usually i am not the biggest friend of turn based combat games, but this one is different. you have so many different ways to approach a fight. you got a party of up to four members that you can customize, a lot of consumables like scrolls, arrows and potions and a lot of spells in this game to make insane builds.
the chat dialogues with the characters are really wholesome and interesting in this game and get you hooked up with the lore, also they often have a lot of influence to your progression and alter your playthrough.
you can choose between 6 allies to follow you on your journey or play as a lone wolf to reach divinity. and thats not everything yet, the world building in this game is done so lovely and detailed. it really feels like diving into another world when playing this game and your own characters with your decisions.

took me like 65 hours to complete this game on normal difficulty (while beeing a loot goblin and checking out everything i can) and after that you`re not done yet since this game got such a high replayability .

Create a character > leaving fortjoy after 20 hours > not play the game for a month and forget about everything > creating a new character > leaving fortjoy again > not play the game for a month and forget about everything > repeat.

200 hours in game 150 hours in fortjoy and never finish the game, 10/10 highly recommended.

For a game I just finished playing and found amazing, I surpisingly don't have much to say other than go on about how much I enjoyed my time.

I tried Baldur's Gaye 3 before this and, while also a great game, I didn't really enjoy the combat system. DOS2's system blows BG3 out of the park for me. Mostly, I love the lack of "spell slots" or "spell charges" or mana/magic cost. It's all on cooldowns instead. So you can freely heal, jump, fly etc. wheverer outside of battle without being punished for using up a commodity. Builds are varied and all fun to play. Reactivity and choices are in the game as much as they are in BG3 too.

The soundtrack is EXTREMELY good (not too surprising considering it's by Borislav Slavov)

Like I said, I don't have much to say. Just that everything in this game is amazing and suits me absolutely perfectly. I still have other CRPG's to play but for now and in the meantime, Divinity Original Sin 2 is the PEAK of the genre.

Masterpiece, probably their best game and my favourite CRPG. The combat system, story and variety in player options are just perfect. If you liked BG3, you'll love this too.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a game that paved the way for Baldur’s Gate 3, showcasing a unique identity and gameplay that stands out.
I’ve played it twice and plan to complete it again to unlock all the achievements on Steam. The story is compelling, with well-crafted progression, extensive builds, and super fun gameplay that ensures hours of entertainment.

You can see that the developers put a lot of love into the game, the combat and story are simply sensational. The dialogues and narration are extremely deep. The soundtrack, needless to say, is epic. If you like turn-based RPG games, go for this one without fear, you won't regret it.

It has different vibes than BG3, but the same sort of character and polish that you'd expect from Larian. Definitely a great game!

First played it on the xbox and now steam. i love this game, it has good replay value for experimenting with class combos and the story itself. great to play with a buddy

The game is coming up to being 8 years old and I still go back to it quiet often. I have this on 3 platforms and have enjoyed playing it on all of them. For me the combat is 10/10, the story 10/10 and characters 10/10.

The class combinations in the game can really make for a different experience for every playthrough of the game. I have recommended this game to multiple friends who have enjoyed it and still recommend to my friends who have not tried it.

game? good
game with mods? better
Game with mods and fren? Bestest