For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting to see what Larian Studios, the team that brought you the award-winning and epic Baldur’s Gate 3, has up their sleeve next, wait no further. Revealed during The Game Awards 2025 with an incredibly awkward live performance before seguing into a bloody horror fest of a trailer, Larian Studios has announced their most ambitious title yet – Divinity.
Concerned about whether or not you have to play the previous games, Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin 2, don’t worry too much. Divinity is a brand new game that doesn’t require experience with previous Larian titles. However, those who’ve played Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin 2 will be able to enjoy greater understanding and continuity.
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Swen Vincke, founder and game director of Larian Studios, said, “Despite our long history with the series,
this is our first game entitled ‘Divinity.’ We’re ready to bring everything we’ve done previously into one
place.
This marks the beginning of something with more breadth, depth, and intimacy than anything we’ve
created before. We’ve been building toward this moment ever since we took our fate into our own hands.
This is the Divinity we’ve always wanted to make, and you’re going to have loads of fun with it.”
What is in the Divinity trailer?
The Divinity trailer that debuted during The Game Awards quickly makes clear that the world of the game is bloody, gruesome, and unequivocally relentless. A pagan society quickly emerges in Rivellon, where inhuman sacrifices are made to gods in the hope of something unnamed. However, what they unleash after the sacrifice is something terrible and wholly unexpected.
Those who have been wondering what the tree is also receive some answers in the trailer, where what once used to be an altar for sacrifice and promise evolves into something more…well…disturbing.
It is here that the tagline comes into play – “The gods are silent. Rivellon bleeds. New powers stir.” What this all means in the grand scheme of the game remains to be seen. Based on the little preview we got during The Game Awards, the new powers have other plans, and it doesn’t look like the plans are focusing on sunshine and rainbows. Nope, blood and carnage seem to be promised.
Then again, what can you expect from the team that dared to explore the darkest parts of the soul in Baldur’s Gate 3, am I right? Never change, Larian Studios. Never change.
About Larian Studios
Larian Studios is an independent RPG developer founded in 1996 in Ghent, Belgium. Over 500 people work between worldwide studios in Ghent, Quebec, Dublin, Guildford, Kuala Lumpur, Barcelona and Warsaw. Larian is best known for the Divinity universe, which they introduced to the world with Divine Divinity in 2002, and Baldur’s Gate 3.
In 2014, Larian launched Divinity: Original Sin, a classic CRPG that won over 150 awards and nominations. The company released its critically acclaimed sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 on September 14, 2017, followed by the Definitive Edition in August 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to a 93 Metacritic rating.
The Nintendo Switch version was released in September 2019. Divinity: Original Sin 2 won over 160 awards, including a BAFTA for Best Multiplayer Game. On 3rd August 2023, Larian Studios released Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC. On 6th September 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 was released on PS5. On 7th December 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 released for Xbox Series X|S.
Baldur’s Gate 3 has won over 200 Game of the Year Awards, including the five major trophies from the BAFTA Game Awards, Golden Joysticks, Game Developers Choice, DICE, and The Game Awards. The studio’s next major game is Divinity, which is currently in development and is already generating major excitement.
