Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Dragon Age: Origins has been my comfort game since it was released. Even this many years later, it still is the game I return to after a bad day, or when I need to feel immersed in the story line. The banter between companions still makes me laugh to this day. 10/10.

This is the only Dragon Age game I've ever played and I love it. I've played through the main story completely thrice. Worth it 100%, I keep coming back every few months.

I'm super late to the party, but this is my first ever playthrough of DA:O.

It's actually kind of a funny story, but my journey in the DA world started in the worst possible place: Veilguard. At the time, after finishing one playthrough of the game, with no knowledge of the lore and cannon of Thedas, I thought "well, it was an OK game. Not extraordinary, but pretty good overall". Boy was I brought back to reality. I then, like an idiot, wanting to get into the DA world, went on the play Inquisition. I was about 10 hours in when I realised Veilguard had ruined everything. Suffice to say, having then gained the knowledge you can import world-states between games, I thought I'd bite the bullet and start, as all things should, at the beginning.

And here we come to Dragon Age: Origins. Truly, one of the most interesting stories out there. Knowing the deep lore of the world built around this game, and the following 2 (I am now not including Veilguard because I refuse to accept it happened), I am constantly amazed. I fell in love with the companions (especially Alistair, best boi), and my Warden too. I am super excited to continue this franchise, and the fact that it's a bit jancky and buggy really doesn't detract from the experience all that much, which was my main concern before I started playing this game, having only gotten into gaming the last few years and as such kind of being used to a certain standard of quality/performance. But Origins, unmodded too, still pleasantly surprised me, and you can pry Thedas' lore and my world state out of my cold, dead, hands.

I'm going to preface this by saying: You WILL need the 4GB patch to make it playable. If you cannot handle downloading one extra file, this isn't the game for you.

Thanks to the fantastic community, you can find and install that very easily - as well as other mods you might wish to make things more palatable (some do, I prefer rawdogging the base game as is) for graphical reasons and the likes. The graphics have aged considerably but the simple storyline still provides a lot of lore for folks to feast on that really set the playing ground for the rest of the series.

The worst thing about it is how long it takes for travelling between cities to occur, and fighting itself is a major pain in the ass if you aren't constantly pausing and adjusting your tactics because your party AI isn't all that great - but once you get the hang of it, it's easy to cruise on through the main story at the very least.

Best thing about it?
Enchantment.

Can't even go beyond the launcher. "Configure" crashes the whole thing. "Play" crashes the whole thing. I will NOT spend hours reading a guide to make your game work. When you decide to sell a game from 2010 in 2025, this is YOUR job as a publisher to make sure that it is running. F you EA.

This is the best rpg ever. Story, mechanics, worldbuilding, everything about this game is the best. The ONLY thing i would change is open world instead of location-based travelling, although thats just because i personally like open world games

This is the RPG that all choice driven RPGs are compared against, and with good reason.
The combat is clunky, and the graphics have not aged well. This game is also significantly better on console than on PC, as the keyboard and mouse controls are not great and there is no controller support.

However, this game is an absolute classic RPG, and I think every fantasy RPG fan should play it at least once. I've played this game multiple times over the years, and I'm still discovering things.

The writing, storytelling, and urgency is outstanding throughout. Interactions between companions is very well done. A+ RPR

sooo good and all i want to do is play it but unfortunately it crashes every fucking time i try to play it
Edit: just had to turn the graphics to very low. Not ideal and the game needs more support but it is still very enjoyable.

It is quite hard to make this game run consistently without constantly crashing. But you can get really close to normality. My recommendation is to install a couple of most popular community mods that improve stability, run the game in 1080p, 60 fps max. Don't put max graphics settings. "Graphics Details" must be on "Medium". With these tweaks I managed to avoid pretty much all the crashing. It still happeded from time to time, but not that often. Now, about the game itself - the story is gorgeous. Smart, nuanced, well-written interesting believable characters, difficult choices, plot twists - it got it all. I highly recommend the game for its story. Might feel a little bit "meh" the first 5-10 hours but it gets better and better as you are getting more invested. The fighting mechanics also might feel weird and awkward, but you get used to it fast. Great game.

The game only works for a few hours, then crash after crash. Such a disappointment. I just wanted to re-play the awesome classic game only to discover that the game isn't compatible on a modern pc. If a console, the XBOX360, that was dodging 'the red ring of death' can run it, why cant they fix this game so it's playable on pc??

Dragon Age: Origins marks the peak and golden era of Bioware.

A great RPG with tons of meaningful choices and a perfect blend of story and involved gameplay. Is the game perfect? Of course not but for some reason the setting resonated with me deeply.
It's has the right amount of high fantasy but also grittiness to keep it from being a completely unrelatable world. The in-game politics and conflicts feel real, with real weight and mirror our own without being preachy. Truly a lost art in todays world building "talent".

You will be rocking a classic party of 4 with a plethora of companions to choose from. Each with their own backstory and personality, they don't all like each other and sure as hell they're all not going to like your every choice and that's the beauty of it. People are DIFFERENT and that's what makes companions compelling. Not having them all back your every move or having them get along with each other. Especially when you bring together a band of misfits like in this game.

The gameplay itself consists of real time "pause" tactical combat with the use of skills and it might be broken beyond belief but you aren't going to notice in your first playthrough because there's so much to figure out. You are going to go through this game a ton of times if you enjoy different narrative choices and figuring out the gameplay so much you break it is part of the fun. Creating the most optimal, high dps build out there, or just going for pure gimmicky fun. It's all part of the choice RPG's offer and if all those choices were "balanced" there really would be nothing different about any of them.

It's one of the first, if not the first great truly 3D RPGs. It marked the start of an era, a game that didn't get topped right up until Baldur's Gate 3 came along (and even then not in every way). Not to mention it has one of the best expansions of a game ever. Right up there with TW3 and the Shivering Isles... and all of this in 2009. How far we've fallen.

On sale it's like 5$, just do yourself a favor and get this. The only mod you will need is the 4GB patch which is easy to find and even easier to install and you're set. If you enjoy RPGs in the slightest there is no reason not to get this.


My full (modded) playthrough of the game here.

My Curator page.

Don't buy this game.
It's a 15 years old game that don't work on modern computers, it is unplayable without a tons of MODs and third party apps to work properly, that might work or not. It's keeping crashing, sttutering, erasing save files, not even openning...
And greedy EA instead of adressing these issues, they just doubled the base price in 04/24 for a 15 yo unplayable game.

its like bg3 but worse graphics. I wouldnt be surprised if BG3 got its inspiration from this. There are so many similarities and I feel like this game was way ahead of its time, the original having came out in 2009.

The story itself was good. A bit corny especially nearing the end. But then again I think all fantasy stories kinda are like this- you start off as a nobody, then at the end you're killing some dragon and saving the world. The thing that really impresses me is how many dialogue options you really have in each conversation.

Only real critique I have is that it crashed a LOT on my PC

I don't recommend buying this game from Steam. The game is so old that newer PC's will consistently crash the game which is SUCH a bummer :(

Hopefully I'll find another engine that has all the patches that allows me to fully experience this.

Perfect example of a great game that was simply dumped on steam without optimizing for newer wersions of windows. You can fix it with community solutions. Still the fact that publishers continue to do this is annoying.

It’s incredibly frustrating that a game this old—and still being sold—barely runs without major crashes. Dragon Age: Origins constantly crashes on my PC, and I’m far from the only one. A quick search shows years' worth of forum threads and community fixes just to get the game to launch or stay running.

I shouldn’t have to dig through forums, modify files, or apply unofficial patches just to play something I paid for. If a company is still actively selling a game, they should be responsible for maintaining basic compatibility or at least clearly warning buyers of the issues.

The game itself might be great, but I can’t even play it long enough to find out. Until these issues are addressed officially, I can’t recommend buying it.

I love this game. But the game does NOT work on pc anymore unless you fiddle with it for hours. I can't in good conscience tell someone to buy a game from 2010 that is 30 DOLLARS and doesn't work properly. Get a used disc for 8 bucks and play it on console. Fuck EA.

Won't even load, lots of suggestions on how to fix it, but couldn't get them to work. Couldn't verify my Video card....whatever.

A fantastic game that beats out even most current games.

wonderful game but with the amount of issues out of the box that require you to fix yourself make this game unable to be a recommend, the story is a bit basic being a lot like other old school bioware games with some fun tactics on the harder difficulties, the graphics are starting to show their age and the game can be a bit clunky and awkward with its terrain navigation, sometimes allies and enemies will just stand still during combat and the companions do require a bit of tuning to get them to play how you would actually want them to but its pretty alright, its a wonderful nostalgic game for me but technical issues have made it very hard to love

install because of my childhood memories. it was a great game. but as i played. the game always crash. Already tried every method suggest in reddit and community. but nothings work,

The reason for crash because the graphic are too high

the game is unplayble :( i heard really good things about it and wanted to play it to learn more about dragon age lore but it keeps crashing im so sad i was really looking forword to playing it, heard theres a mod that can fix it so maybe ill get back into it to finis my elf mages story but for now im just gona let it colect dust in my library :/

Back in the day this was a great game, do not buy this on steam, it crashes constantly and sometimes you'll get bad texture glitches

its an amazing game honestly aged better than any of the other games they tried to make after. this is the real dragon age experience. all the ones after just fall short. it has meaningful combat the skills actually matter and there are many ways to play the game and they are all viable even on most of the harder difficulties.

Need I say it? Best fantasy RPG of its time, amazing series, great writing, painful combat but the story makes it so worth it.

Won't go past 'new game' loading screen. tried the 4gb patch, tried win 7 compatibility, tried cpu affinity, tried other patches .. nothing would work. It just won't run on contemporary architecture. Shouldn't even be available on Steam if it won't run OOTB.

First of all let first state, that if you can help me fix this problem then I will retract my score. But the game keeps giving me black screens and crashing and I can't fix it. the game seems fun, but I literally can't play the game. please help me solve this. If I can't then the game is straight trash and unplayable

*disclaimer* I have hundreds of hours and 10s of playthroughs on disk and through EA before the series came to steam.
This is the greatest fantasy RPG that was crafted without source material to draw from. Absolutely incredible just how much world they were able to build in a single package, and all in a way that doesn't feel like its being drilled into your head. Every revelation is natural, this world lives, rots, breathes and dies. And every single corner of it contains something fascinating, thoughtful, or emotionally stirring. I love dragon age origins. Peak of the series and arguably the peak of dark fantasy gaming. Please don't let this experience slip you by just because of the crimes against humanity the most recent game was, I promise you won't regret it

Went to try playing again after many years and game simply does not work on newer systems. There are a ton of forum posts/guides trying to get it to work and I still couldn't get it going without the game crashing. Some of the guides recommend downloading .exe files from the internet which is just fraught with danger.

Game has been abandoned by the developer and should not be for sale on Steam anymore. I won't be buying any more Dragon Age games if the existing ones don't work.

Game is good, but it crashes every half hour or so. None of the crash fixes I've found online seem to help. Basically unplayable until the crashing gets fixed.

This is hands down my favorite game ever. I've played it through over a dozen times on console since it first came out years ago. It was the first video game I ever remember playing, and it started my love for games. Of course it's jank and dated now, but I love it still. Dragon Age franchise in my heart forever <3

I want sure this would play well on the steam deck and it did take some use of a community layout + additional modification of that (just a couple of other button swaps), but it worked! The game is very very prone to crashing so if you have 500 saves you'll be just fine. Love the story, love love the companions (except Lilianas song, wtf was that?). Super fun and steam deck users, use the community layouts and have a bunch of saves.

Everybody knows Origins is one of the best RPGs in the genre, if you think of playing it in 2025 or in future - don't think twice. Good writing is always cool!

I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH!!! Though, I wish Shale was romanceable. for when this game was released I also find it nice that they include bisexual characters!

Maybe i missed the train (by over a decade) but this game isnt my cup of tea. The gameplay mechanics is just not clicking, and i find it tedious and hard to wrap my brain around not a huge fan of turn based. I like the real time combat like Oblivion/Skyrim/mass effect type games. Im sure the story is probably good, it cant be bad with the overwhelming positive reviews. I understand im in the minority but thats ok.

one of the best story i ever play in games. Not only that, ts had some of the best companion and npc. character like alistair, morrigan, oghren, leliana, wynne, etc are really really great. not only the main game, awakening have great character too. the dlcs also so good. everything is great. and just like i tell, the story is the best aspect of this game..the threat of darkspawn, the impact of our choices, development of the character like alistair, leliana, and morrigan.. its just amazing. dont forget the ending... its so amazing. a hero of ferelden lol. altough the gameplay is not everyone cup of tea but i think its pretty good and i enjoyed that.

so just play ts!!!!!

It's a brutishly strong honey liquor of similar strength to Chasind wildwine. The flavors are reminiscent of warm summer days and sour-sweet apple blossoms on the wind, with an unexpected aftertaste of a father going off to war, never to return.

Bitter, to say the least.

10/10 it would be 11/10 but there is a fade sectiono you have to mod out :(

honestly so much better than i expected!
the first dragon age game i played was da2, and i thought going back to play origins was going to be a bit boring and mostly for the backstory, but no! really fun gameplay, lots of cool dialogue and a riveting story.
i'm looking forward to finishing this awesome game series

Good game. The classic Bioware writing makes this game worth the price, even if the gameplay is somewhat dated. Amazing plot decisions, good character writing, and impressive worldbuilding. The gameplay has some balancing issues and lacks the quality of life you would expect from more modern games, but it is still a great experience.

Its old, its jank, and you need to install a patch for it to not keep crashing.
BUT it is so worth it. it holds up extremely well. the world and its characters are wonderful to explore. cant wait to play the next one in the series.

Easily the best entrance in the Dragon Age series. An intriguing story that pulls you in from the get go and has you wanting more throughout the entire story. While some may find this style of combat and gameplay to be a little outdated, I find that the charm that it brings makes quite worth the experience.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Delist EA. Forcing third-party accounts and banning for inactivity with no appeal is predatory.

Once you apply 5-6 stability and QoL patches, DA:O is very playable in 2025.

RTwP + several companions to choose from + mages being OP + party banter as you run around the game world + tank/DPS/healer archetypes just works for me, I'm willing to forgive other shortcomings when that classic RPG formula is right.

Obligatory downside: interior maps and dungeons are repetitious. You spend a lot of time breaching and clearing rooms -- in fact I think there's even a recent game about that. DA:O's outdoor maps are more fun given that combat is about positioning, zone control, and crowd control. All that happens more fluidly on an actual battlefield.

This is a yes with a massive caveat. The game itself is great and stands the test of time as an amazing RPG. However the technical side is AWFUL. This game crashes consistently over and over and over. Turn your textures to medium. If you're ok with the game crashing(save often!) then it's worth it. But if you think that'd be too much hassle than don't bother

Can't even finish the game because of the constant crashes. Used the 4GB patch too, worked for a while before the crashes came back. I'm pissed because this is actually a great game, but the constant crashes are inexcusable.

I've been told that this game was pretty good and I'm sure it is, however, I wouldn't know because this is completely unplayble on Steam and should not, under any circumstance, be sold here. Most of my playtime was just sitting in the main menu (after booting up the game again) trying to figure out how to stop the game from crashing, I tried the best I could to fix the issue and nothing seemed to work. I'm glad I at least bought the game when it was on sale because I can not imagine how much more painful it would have felt after spending 30 bucks on this dumpster fire but don't let my words fool you, even if it is on sale, don't waste your time and money on it, you'd have a more memorable experience buying a 10 piece at McDonald's and waiting for them to get cold before eating them.

If there’s one RPG that stands above the rest for me, it will always be Dragon Age: Origins.

Years ago, this game gave me a truly unique and magical experience — one that has stayed with me ever since. It’s epic and thrilling, yet deeply grounded, allowing you to be not just a hero and a savior, but, above all, a person.

With time, the overarching story only feels richer, and when seen in the context of the later games, the foundations of its core conflicts become even more compelling. Every playthrough brings something new — different choices, unexpected consequences, and fresh perspectives.

The heartfelt locations, unforgettable companions, emotional romances, gripping intrigues, and intense battles — Origins has it all. A timeless masterpiece, through and through.

Liked the game a lot but on reinstall could not get any of the DLC from Bioware. Decided to buy it on Steam so I could get The DLC. It would not run And apparently Steam knows it will not run as sold. Had to download an executable online now it will run but not through Steam. So if you want this game be prepared to have to find a fix for it.

Not sure what happened but this game is currently unplayable. Just crashes all the time. Very annoying. Gem of a game if you can get it to work.