Yup, That Weird Statue Was Teasing a New Divinity Game | The Game Awards 2025

After immoderate antithetic teases and a trademark inadvertently showing Larian Studios' hand, the Baldur's Gate 3 developer's adjacent crippled has been officially revealed astatine The Game Awards with 1 heck of a disturbing trailer. It's Divinity. Just Divinity.

We don't person immoderate details connected the crippled itself, but we tin glean immoderate from the precise cinematic trailer. We saw a medieval-looking festival with each sorts of revelry, and a elephantine wicker antheral acceptable for burning. Inside the man, an existent antheral is chained and tortured arsenic they pain the effigy down. But arsenic helium melts distant (it's gross, okay?), his humor (?) drips into the soil, weird screaming plants travel up, the wicker antheral goes nuts, there's a batch of screaming, and past we spot the statue that's had everyone guessing for the past mates of weeks. Divinity!

We did get a property merchandise coming done pursuing the announcement, which gives a fewer much clues. "The gods are silent. Rivellon bleeds. New powers stir," it reads. "Built by the squad who brought you Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios unchains its ambitions to bring you an RPG with greater breadth and extent than ever before."

It goes connected to authorities that Divinity is "a marque caller game" that doesn't necessitate cognition of different Larian games, but players of Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2 mightiness "be capable to bask greater knowing and continuity."

“Despite our agelong past with the series, this is our archetypal crippled entitled ‘Divinity.’" said Larian caput Swen Vincke. "We’re acceptable to bring everything we’ve done antecedently into 1 place. This marks the opening of thing with much breadth, depth, and intimacy than thing we’ve created before. We’ve been gathering toward this infinitesimal ever since we took our destiny into our ain hands. This is the Divinity we’ve ever wanted to marque and you're going to person loads of amusive with it.”

Larian archetypal released Divine Divinity successful 2002, followed by Beyond Divinity successful 2004, Divinity 2 successful 2009, and Divinity: Dragon Commander successful 2013. Divinity: Original Sin came retired successful 2014, with Original Sin 2 arsenic a nonstop follow-up. Unlike Original Sin, the different Divinity games are enactment RPGs alternatively than turn-based. With acold much eyes connected the workplace aft the successes of Original Sin 2 and Baldur's Gate 3, it makes consciousness that Larian would privation to instrumentality to its roots a spot and amusement disconnected its ain IP.

Larian's deed a bid of location runs with its RPGs. We gave Divinity: Original Sin 2 a 9.6/10, saying, "Divinity: Original Sin 2 whitethorn person been designed successful the tone of decades-old RPGs similar Baldur’s Gate 2, but that bequest serves lone arsenic a instauration for the expansive crippled Larian has built connected apical of it." More recently, we gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 10/10, saying, "I don't privation to accidental each CRPG going guardant should aspire to beryllium similar Baldur's Gate 3. Not everything needs to beryllium astir this large and ambitious, oregon adjacent this dense. But it is simply a landmark infinitesimal successful the genre, and if I had to constituent to 1 paragon that I would similar everyone other making these to instrumentality inspiration from, this is perfectly it."

For those wondering wherefore Larian's not moving connected a Baldur's Gate 4, sorry, they've already explained themselves and Baldur's Gate's aboriginal remains successful the hands of Hasbro.

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