So, there’s a new Divinity game in the works, much like we anticipated — and because of that, the old Divinity games are getting tons of new players.
For those who haven’t been following the news lately, the Game Awards ceremony took place last week and, not only Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took the whole thing by storm, Larian Studios, the same home to Baldur’s Gate, announced the return of its Divinity RPG series.
And that did a thing…the “thing” being two-fold: for starters, the trailer shown at the awards, which you can see below, has some people a tad…impressed with its much, much darker, adult content when compared to its BG counterpart. Who would’ve known that a game that has elves absorbing memories through consuming the flesh of the fallen would be like that, huh?
The other is a major spike in games like Divinity: Original Sin 2, with just a little under 8,000 concurrent players and just shy of 11,000 peak in the last 24 hours at the time of this writing. Let it be reminded that the game came out in September, 2017.
You’d be forgiven if you thought that this was some kind of fluke (although, seriously, why would you?), but looking at other, previous games from the franchise, the same phenomenon takes place, although in smaller numbers: the first Original Sin’s Enhanced edition boasts 1,509 concurrent players and a 24-hour peak of 2,150 players.
Data on both games comes from Steam Database, by the way.
Just what is Divinity?
The Divinity franchise is Larian Studios second foray into gaming, with the original game (Divine Divinity, which has also spiked from less than 20 players to a peak of 160, give or take) coming out in 2002.
The franchise is kind of a gameplay precursor of what you saw in Baldur’s Gate 3, with a heavy emphasis on traditional, tabletop RPG games, except in videogame form. Heavily inspired by titles such as Diablo, the Divinity franchise chose to follow the anthology narrative route, where each game’s story is independent from one another.
The good thing about this method is obvious: you don’t need to go back an entire franchise in order to understand what’s going on.
That didn’t stop, however, most gamers into doing just that, and now the older titles are seeing a major influx of players — which is always good if you ask us. Given that PRG was born under the mantra of “discover new games, rediscover old ones”, at least half of our motto is being taken into account here.
As for the new game, well, despite the above trailer and the gallery below, there’s little detail to be talked about here: Larian Studios have stated that this is a much more ambitious project than Baldur’s Gate 3 — which was already a sizeable endeavor, to be fair — but the company is yet to provide info on lore, platforms or a release date, so we’re still on the waiting part.
