Excellent story, characters and writing
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Excellent story, combat, and RPG mechanics. The characters are intriguing and your companions are actually present characters”
Steam review · 68.9 h played ↗
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%Larian Studios2017Tactical RPG · Turn-Based Strategy · RPG
The verdict
A deep, reactive tactical RPG with brilliant elemental combat, build freedom and great writing, but brutally hard and opaque. Skip it if you dislike guides, steep difficulty or slow turn-based fights.
Great for
Fans of Baldur's Gate 3 who want deep, tough turn-based combat, build experimentation and co-op
Main risk
Steep, unfair-feeling difficulty and opaque systems that need guides, souring many players by Acts 3-4
What players love
Creative, system-driven combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“teleport enemy → oil everywhere → fire everywhere → entire party dying → reload save”
Steam review · 257.6 h played ↗
Great for fans of Baldur's Gate 3
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“if you enjoyed BG3, you'll easily get another 100 hours of enjoyment out of it.”
Steam review · 95.1 h played ↗
Huge freedom and build variety
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Wanna be a mage archtype that can grow wings, fly, and wield a massive 2-hander, sure dude, whatever.”
Steam review · 314.1 h played ↗
Fun co-op with friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“The whole game was played in Honour mode in co-op, and it was an incredible experience.”
Steam review · 185 h played ↗
Huge amount of content and replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“I've played this game probably 10 times through and still get to try new strategies and discover new secrets.”
Steam review · 624.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Punishing, unfair-feeling difficulty and balance
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“I am often dead before I get to take my turn.”
Steam review · 101.6 h played ↗
Opaque quests and puzzles require guides
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The quests in this game are excruciatingly vague which to me made the gameplay and exploration very tedious.”
Steam review · 66.5 h played ↗
Armor system and slow, tedious combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“The Armor/Magic Armor system is terrible.”
Steam review · 100.1 h played ↗
Clunky UI, camera and inventory
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“The jankiest game I've ever played, literally every single part of the game is fighting you when you play it.”
Steam review · 11.6 h played ↗
Enemy level scaling forces grinding and avoidance
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“Exploring, especially after driftwood, is just fleeing from higher level monsters until you find the correctly levelled monster.”
Steam review · 44.5 h played ↗
Later acts (3-4) fall off
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“Game should have ended at act 2. Acts 3 and 4 are a ♥♥♥♥♥ slog that shouldn't have been there.”
Steam review · 63.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support60 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 SP1 64-bit or Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5 or equivalent
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 550 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6XXX or higher
Storage60 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 SP1 64-bit or Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i7 or equivalent
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or AMD R9 280
Storage60 GB available space
OSWindows 7 SP1 64-bit or Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5 or equivalent
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 550 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6XXX or higher
Storage60 GB available space
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