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Divine Divinity
Developer Larian Studios
Divine Divinity is an action role-playing game developed by Larian Studios and published by cdv Software Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, which was released in August 2002. It has three sequels, Beyond Divinity, Divinity II, and Divinity: Original Sin II. It also has a prequel, Divinity: Original Sin, and a spin-off, Divinity: Dragon Commander. The game was released for Mac OS X on 15 November 2013. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
290 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
83
LovedLoved
147 positive · 30 negative
95% range 77–88%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 147 | 30 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 25 | 11 | 46 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,555 of 1,819 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
83% recommend · 145 yes, 29 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 174 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (3,574 of 4,072 positive).
Players praise the game's atmosphere, music, and role-playing freedom. [1][2][3] Many note that the game is buggy and has compatibility issues on modern systems. [4][5][6] Some reviewers find the game dated but still enjoyable for its depth and charm. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
The game is great and very fun, but in its current state it is almost unplayable. Playing this game on a modern PC is a terrible experience due to the large number of bugs — some of them even break quests. Worst of all, I lost a save file with 92 hours of gameplay because of a bug that simply deleted my saves. For these reasons, I cannot recommend it at the moment. It’s not worth the risk of investing so many hours …
- [1]
the fact that i could make a lesbian thief marked by the divine, whose only combat skills were a dagger and lots of healing potions, makes this game truly a divine divinity.
- [2]
All the Divinity games range between good and great. This one, though, will always have a special place in my heart, and it's the one I keep coming back to. It simply oozes atmosphere and the music is unmatched.
- [3]
A solid old school RPG with a lot of depth. The world is interesting to explore and there's a surprising amount of freedom in how you approach things.
- [7]
Good game for its time. Probably doesn't hold up that well today but still pretty nice. It sort of takes certain aspects from various games, like the combat of diablo, the crpg aspects of baldur's gate and the character progression system most similar to arcanum: of steamworks and magic obscura, and doesnt do any of those aspects better than the games they were inspired by, but they still manage to make them all …
Summarised from 34 of the 276 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Divine Divinity sits at 83% positive across 177 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot opined that there is "much more to Divine Divinity than its impressive graphics and music and its combination of hack-and-slash action and pure role-playing, and that says a lot for the game." IGN declared, in summary, that "Divine Divinity is a very easy game to get into and enjoy. It lacks anything memorable, like the party NPCs with minds and dialog of their own in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, but it has atmosphere, tons of quests, and a great deal of variety to offer. Above all, it's plain fun to play, to develop your character and find ever-better weapons and armor, to…
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Reactions
60 of 290 · most liked firstIn honor of the new Divinity game I was like “I should fire up Divine Divinity, that was a great game” and got flash banged by the fact that steam tells me I last opened the game in 2013
positive · AI labelView post →Mentioned it in one of the other threads about this but it bears repeating: BG3 did not come out of nowhere. It wasn't a case of Wizards of the Coast giving money to a random studio and getting a masterpiece out. Baldurs Gate 3, as a product, was officially in development since approximately 2019. It released into early access on Steam in 2020 and 1.0 in 2023. It received repeated injections of cash through things like fricking google stadia over that period. But also? Baldurs Gate 3 didn't…
neutral · AI labelView post →Some fascinating prescience in IGN’s 2002 review of Divine Divinity (Larian’s first RPG)
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is great and very fun, but in its current state it is almost unplayable. Playing this game on a modern PC is a terrible experience due to the large number of bugs — some of them even break quests. Worst of all, I lost a save file with 92 hours of gameplay because of a bug that simply deleted my saves. For these reasons, I cannot recommend it at the moment. It’s not worth the risk of investing so many hours only to lose all your progress. The experience might improve if the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first Divinity was called Divine Divinity, and it was closer to Diablo than Baldur's Gate. As per this interview, this game is going to be the same style as BG3 and the Original Sin games.
neutral · AI labelView post →you can't just call a game Divine Divinity. if you ask me. that shouldn't have been something that happened
negative · AI labelView post →the fact that i could make a lesbian thief marked by the divine, whose only combat skills were a dagger and lots of healing potions, makes this game truly a divine divinity.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed playing through this for the first time. Here's my tips for anyone trying it out for their first time: **EDIT 1: YOU CANNOT RE-DO YOUR SKILLS. ONCE CHOSEN ITS DONE. Tip #1 helps with this, but you can click a button on the left hand side of the skills page to see ALL future skills, try to plan ahead.** 1.) Some of the Skills are kind of vague on functionality, so maybe create a save before choosing a new one, so you can test it before fully committing. 2.) If you enjoy Dex…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey Larian! Could you remaster this game with scale-able UI? This game looks fascinating, but the text is way too small even with what meagre mods that exists. Many thanks!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Divine Divinity . Nice classic isometric RPG. Pleasant music . Controls: Point and click TOGGLE KEYPLATE - CTRL+F12 OPEN LOAD PLATE - L OPEN SAVE PLATE - S OPEN STATUS PLATE - T OPEN INVENTORY - I PAUSE GAME - SPACE AUTOMAP - M SWITCH COMBAT MODE - C SHOW EQUIPMENT - B OPEN AUTOMAP - A OPEN QUESTLOG - Q TAKE SCREENSHOT - CTRL+F11 ALWAYS RUN - R QUICK LOAD - CTRL+L QUICK SAVE - CTRL+S . Mechanics and features: We can choose character class, icon and name Choise level of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All the Divinity games range between good and great. This one, though, will always have a special place in my heart, and it's the one I keep coming back to. It simply oozes atmosphere and the music is unmatched.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I mean I'll be honest, I got it for like a dollar on summer sale and just beat it today. Think of a Proto-Divinity Original Sin 2 with Diablo 2 just about. It's essentially the progenitor of the Divinity game format - you can really see the bones here, it's pretty neat. Quests are very easy to bug and break, it's super easy to softlock yourself in some places or straight up break progression so make sure you keep several hard saves and quicksave often. Definitely slide over to the community…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I adore this game, I have spent thousands of hours in different builds in my youth. Sadly the devs have never once made this compatible all the way back since windows 8, sometimes you can get it to get out of the healers village before it catastrophically implodes if you can endure crash after crash after crash... Unless the devs patch it so it works with windows 10 / 11 leave this as a happy memory.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is tighter than a dwarf's ale purse (After playing through all the Divnity games this one remains my favorite)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found this bizarre demonic flesh gate from a still of Larian's Divine Divinity and I am obsessed with it. Despite how indulgently generic in terms of famtasy is, it makes their more bizarre aeathetic elements stand out more. The Diablo fusion with Ultima VII was a pretty delightful call for a game
positive · AI labelView post →Yeah, first two games Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity were awesome!
positive · AI labelView post →CRPG list I stole and condensed from Reddit. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57203969 > Credit where credit is due: [MEGA CRPG RECOMMENDATION LIST](https://old.reddit.com/r/CRPG/comments/136zqua/mega_crpg_recommendation_list_work_in_progress/). Tasty comments full of people disagreeing on the OP's categorization. Seems to have deleted their account, so no u/ I can direct you to. I left all the recommendations and categorization alone, but took out some of the color commentary (which…
neutral · AI labelView post →Tried this after seeing the latest Divinity trailer, wanting to play through the franchise starting with the very first game with low expectations, but this game was actually really good, with basically every aspect of it (art, music, map, story, etc.) feeling really good from start to finish. Really not much to complain about other than the game not being very easy to alt-tab with, but that much was bearable. If you're going to play it I'd highly recommend setting up dgvoodoo2 using the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Divine Divinity may have a silly name, but it's a really fun game that's still worth a play, and not just as "wow look how far Larian has come". Diablo style combat and dungeon crawling with open world RPG gameplay packed with weird, fun quests and creativity.
positive · AI labelView post →Larian wouldn't fuck us with yet another card game bandwagoning I think? Given the shorter dev cycle...ARPG? Divine Divinity is back, baby.
positive · AI labelView post →Good game for its time. Probably doesn't hold up that well today but still pretty nice. It sort of takes certain aspects from various games, like the combat of diablo, the crpg aspects of baldur's gate and the character progression system most similar to arcanum: of steamworks and magic obscura, and doesnt do any of those aspects better than the games they were inspired by, but they still manage to make them all work together which is still impressive.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Divinity II... finished An excellent game sometimes bogged down by overly ambitious ideas. Still, I'd say I can recommend way more firmly than Divine Divinity People say this won't "fit" with the OS stuff, but, I don't really think it would be that hard to tweak here and there
neutral · AI labelView post →A solid old school RPG with a lot of depth. The world is interesting to explore and there's a surprising amount of freedom in how you approach things.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is old and jank but damn does it have soul
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this game a lot around when it first released back in 2002 and now it's 2026 and still a grand time! It's definitely old-school and has some compatibility problems. I got mine to work by when it first opens using the configure menu, checking 'smoothness' and choosing a lower resolution around 1280x800. I'm running it on windows. The game itself is still really fun if you are looking for a very vintage experience. I'm sure there is a proper way to build you character, but I get by fine…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⊱⏤⏤⟢ Thursday Stream ⟣⏤⏤⊰ Divine Divinity! I'm 24 years late to the party, but I hear this game holds up quite well! It's Larian, after all, so I'm looking forward to it! ⊱⏤ 19:00 CDT/1:00 GMT (+1) ⏤⊰ ⊱⏤ ▼ Stream links below! ▼⏤⊰ twitch.tv/aiharararara youtube.com/live/FMyHzuf...
positive · AI labelView post →There are no cats or women with big, bouncy booties but it's decent.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A diverse variety of enemies, but the one you will be fighting the most and the most frustrating is the Crash. It can appear suddenly, unexpected, and destroy your character, and make you lose all the time you didn't saved. Once it even destroy my savegame since it broke in the Apart from that, the game is a Diablo 1 clone with a somewhat basic loot system. I haven't found interesting loot in the whole game, no uniques, no power boosts, no unique interactions with skills. The best loot to be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →CRPG list I stole and condensed from Reddit. Credit where credit is due: [MEGA CRPG RECOMMENDATION LIST](https://old.reddit.com/r/CRPG/comments/136zqua/mega_crpg_recommendation_list_work_in_progress/). Tasty comments full of people disagreeing on the OP's categorization. Seems to have deleted their account, so no u/ I can direct you to. I left all the recommendations and categorization alone, but took out some of the color commentary (which to some might just be blandifying it, lol). # "Where…
neutral · AI labelView post →this game is tighter than a dwarf's ale purse EDIT: yeah, this was such a good game :) now if only I were able to run Beyond Infinity without that graphic glitch
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That would make me incredibly happy. I recently played Divine Divinity again, and it holds up so well. Sadly the tech is showing it's age. All it needs is a new engine and a bit of qol.
positive · AI labelView post →This game is dangerous. Why? Because it caused me to want to play more games by this studio. Careful it may do the same to you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was quite the reminder just how good Larian has been at this CRPG thing virtually forever when I tried to launch Divine Divinity just long enough to give it a quick review. I ended up being unable to stop myself from making a character and playing through part of the tutorial, because even 25 years later it is still excellent from the start. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that playing Divine Divinity had the intriguing effect of killing my interest in the Diablo series; until…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Theres sort of an interesting balancing act Larian is doing here. This game could have been a soft reboot. Playing Divine Divinity and Divinity 2, this Rivellon is too far removed temporally to feel the same But viewed in sequence with OS2, it instead feels more of a piece OS1 establishes the new
neutral · AI labelView post →Beat Divine Divinity for the second time, first was in 2004, it's a nice and simple rpg. A fine story and some diverse quests. The game still plays fine, missing some modern features and the pathing is not that great, but the writing carries it. Now it's over to Fields of Mistria as it is finally out of early access.
positive · AI labelView post →i always fall for it, an old game on steam NEVER EVER WORK, i bet it works great if you get it from GOG with all kinds of patches pre-installed, i'll do that instead. the game is great i'm sure, but not on steam. i got as far as exiting the healer's hut, some guy yelling about the end times and then it crashed on the next line of dialogue.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i think its hilarious how many people make over bg3 when Larian's REAL best game is right here
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't be discouraged to play this in 2026! After playing DOS 2, I have trusted Larian and it's solidified with Baldur's Gate 3. Purchased this after new Divinity announcement at The Game Awards to immerse myself with the lore~ up next: Beyond Divinity. Excitement aside, this game is not perfect (like every other games). It crashed on me many times that I have to remember saving every 5 minutes. CTRL + S is your best friend. Few typos here and there and voice acting that is not what you're used…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slay the entire map for 10 Minutes with no breaks inbetween go into a bossfight to die in less then 2 seconds Polymorph a boss, he runs away in a cutscene, gets summoned an irl hour later with the other bosses for a dramatic cutscene.... hes still polymorphed 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Divinity II: Flame of Vengeance is kind of cementing Divinity II as a favorite game I dont think Ill ever revisit Divine Divinity again. This, though? Almost essential
negative · AI labelView post →Beyond Divinity: holy shit i managed an hour of that before i had to stop. Bad game. Divine Divinity is a historical curiosity for rpg enthusiasts, Beyond is an overly ambitious mess
negative · AI labelView post →I like when people are like "MY Divine Divinity character wouldnt do that" wrt OS2, but in the actual game most of what you do is random mass murder and acting like a tool
negative · AI labelView post →its fun and you get to pet a cat who will follow you and then kill bunnies
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GAME DOES NOT WORK RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!!! you have to do a whole bunch of sh*t to get it to run and the UI doesnt scale to resolution so u have to play at 1900x600 or something silly just so u can read the words. at 2560x1440 the letters were so tiny they looked like tiny dots lmao. ONLY buy this game if its on sale for 0.80 cents and to just have as part of ur collection. Dont waste your time or energy on this. They REEEEALLY NEED to remaster Beyond and Divine like Diablo II: Resurrected…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still worth playing on modern hardware for hardcore (and perhaps even casual) fans of isometric CRPG. Interesting story and quests, well developed open world and perfect blend of action and traditional RPG elements. Spell presentation and flexible skill and stat progression make for a very enjoyable experience. The voice acting is atrocious (part of the game's wacky sense of humor?) but the soundtrack is exceptional. It is not a flawless game. Mildly buggy (e.g. random audio and visual…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Everything was going great! Everything was fantastic! After a few game restarts and eight hours of gameplay, I finally felt like I was getting the hang of this game! And then.... That VAMPIRIC ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ KILLED GEORGE! I miss you George. You were the best merchant and my best friend in the whole of Rivellon. May you rest in peace, you drug-addicted idiot. Everything has been downhill since you left the world. Love you, bro <3 Update: I have since completed the game -- after restarting once…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's rough. It's unbalanced. It's unfair. It's meant for you to reload until you can figure out certain problems. Persevere.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay is simple but enjoyable. Hillarious dialogues. There is the lack of explaination for the usage of many items and asignable shortcuts for skills. If anyone having trouble with the black and square shadow, turn on software rendering. If you want to play in windowed mode, use cnc-ddraw on github.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I started playing Divine Divinity as well. I honestly had no idea that the combat played like an ARPG, almost similar to Diablo 2, but with deeper RPG elements like choices in conversations etc. The writing is really funny at times, which I love. Wonder how the new game will compare in tone.
positive · AI labelView post →not perfect, but for me its a Masterpiece
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this on the Steam Deck and it ran beautifully - there's a great community controller scheme for the game too. It's a rather simple, yet charming ARPG with light CRPG elements. I had a lot of fun, and while I do think some of the dungeons can overstay their welcome or feel somewhat repetitive - the combat can feel that way in general depending on your class - I never felt myself getting bored or disinterested. I did a majority of the quests and was around level 46 when I finished the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This review will be very negative. The game is a very, very mediocre clone of Diablo 1 – released as a developer-only release. Because of this, I'm stuck somewhere on level 3 of the catacombs. The main problems are: 1. The image isn't properly scaled to high resolutions – e.g., full HD. I'm currently playing on 1280x800 – but this is the Middle Ages. For example, Call of Duty – from 20 years ago – can run without any problems on modern hardware. The publisher should inform users about such…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ah, what a classic! fond memories, but never finished back in the day. glad i finally did, and recommend it to all old heads who might have missed it. similar to d2, but at the same time so different. its dark with godlike music, like d2. But less action, more story. its slower than d2, closer to d1 i reckon. and of course humorous like other larian studios games. have fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Janky cross between diablo 1 and baldur's gate which works much worse than that sounds. I played this when it hit the clearance rack a year or two after release and tried it again more recently. My opinion hasn't changed. If anything, I think the game is much worse to play today. Overly ambitious and not very good. And even in 2002 the graphics were terrible. It seems to crash a lot more than I remember on modern systems and I'm getting a lower framerate than I did in the 00s somehow. Also the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completed it first time in 2025 in preparation for new Divinity title (offline mode due to compatibility shenanigans). Mostly had positive experience, except for last act. Despite borrowing from many other famous games it already has distinctive unique Larian magic, like music, movable objects, rewarding exploration, specific humor, immersive sim aspects etc. Really enjoyed multiple quests, which required player perception, patience and brainwork. I wasn't impressed with an arpg aspect, so i…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played the shit out of every Larian game since Divine Divinity...I was not happy about this.
negative · AI labelView post →> …I’m just saying. Making a modern engine from scratch is hard. There are just too many things to worry about. And the record of “RPG studios rolling a new in house engine” is not great. Larian's track record is good. They used an [in-house engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity_Engine) for Divinity: Original Sin, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Baldur's Gate 3. They also made their own game engine for their older Divinity titles (Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity). And Vincke…
neutral · AI labelView post →I tried to like this game. I really did. The art style is the type of thing I used to love about RPGs... that hand drawn third person perspective. It looks great. However the gameplay makes it impossible for me to enjoy. It exhibits the same problem with old RPGs I never could stand. Talk to 12 people... you end up with twelve quests you don't want to do. Not to mention the fact that there's barely any direction. You never know where you're supposed to be going. And the buildings...…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i remember playing this as an alternative to Diablo 2 in my youth. The story itself is superb. The music also really sets the mood for the type of zone your in. The excitement was real when you transitioned into the rural zone for the first time xD Shame they evolved it into a turn based style game later in its trilogy. The roots had/has so much potential but Larian chose a different path.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game made me think we have turned somewhere wrong making games nowadays. Was great back in 2000's and is great now.
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