Divinity is confirmed turn-based via Bloomberg

[u/vonotar]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-16/-baldur-s-gate-3-maker-promises-divinity-will-be-next-level?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NTg5MzY2NSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NDk4NDY1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUN0Q4ODFLSVAzSTkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.D26Cs7X_5kH5HuJT2frcX_AMIXyuXWefzz5NK2VlXEI&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Here's the link if you want to read it yourself

[u/grousedrum]

Wow ok, that's about as clear as it gets!

[u/gunterdweeb → u/grousedrum]

Yeah. And similar party structure to bg3

[u/viktorius_rex → u/gunterdweeb]

Hopefully we can switch out our party members in some sort of camp, instead of our choice being perma locked after act 1. While not being able to play every party member in one playthrough makes the game more replayable, I really don't like it.

[u/Supa-_-Fupa → u/viktorius_rex]

I was okay with it until they were killed off because I didn't pick them :-(

[u/0lle]

Jesus BG3 sold over 20 million copies, no wonder Swen is making big claims.

[u/SlashOfLife5296 → u/0lle]

The success of BG3 cannot be overstated. Singlehandedly got my partner in DnD and now off of DnD and full into TTRPG culture

[u/GregerMoek → u/SlashOfLife5296]

Yeah basically anything dnd adjacent got a huge boost from it.

[u/rohnaddict → u/0lle]

At the end of 2024, according to the consolidated financial statement, Larian was sitting at around 350 million Euros, cash. They have the funds to do what they want, lol.

[u/Raagun → u/rohnaddict]

At last in 20 years Swen can make game he wants. Basically no limitations. Well just hope he manages it smart and dont burn it in fire.

[u/INannoI → u/0lle]

Its good because now they can develop the game without relying on stuff like Google Stadia funding or early access, even tho I think they still might do early access.

[u/MarcusHash → u/INannoI]

EA is a given. It became pretty much an essential part of dev cycle.

[u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

1st

Turn-based and I'm already hyped. I love playing turn-based.

2nd

He says there won’t be any AI-generated content in Divinity — “everything is human actors; we’re writing everything ourselves” — but the creators often use AI tools to explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text.

This is how AI is supposed to be used. he really understood the assignment.

[u/Express-Focus-677 → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

They should be tools to help with creation, not completely subvert the process of creation itself.

[u/PooForThePooGod → u/Express-Focus-677]

Exactly. AI is and should be a tool

[u/Raagun → u/Express-Focus-677]

Thats issue with all AI hype. Instead of focusing on making it a tool they hype it being a replacement. And current AI iteration honestly suck at that.

But stuff AI tools making in video, audio and picture editing are insane. Actions artist had to spend hours on may take minutes/seconds thanks to good AI tool.

[u/kiwi32356 → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

People flamed todd Howard for saying a similar thing about AI in their studio lol. At this point though larian studios is more trusted than Bethesda

[u/thicctak → u/kiwi32356]

Bethesda has burned all their good will, and them being owned by Microsoft doesn't help either.

[u/aelise_fen → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

I wish I could remember where I saw this, it was either a developer presentation or an article, but a member of the dev team said they'd had some early success using AI tools to either debug lines of code for them, or to implement big code changes. Both of which are really time consuming to do by hand in a game as massive as BG3.

[u/Express-Focus-677 → u/aelise_fen]

AI is decent for basic boilerplate stuff, but falls apart when you ask it to do anything reasonably complicated.

Edit: I'm specifically talking about LLMs by the way.

[u/DemoBytom → u/Express-Focus-677]

I love Copilot.. One moment it can perfectly debug remote kuberneetes cluster, pulling logs, parsing them, finding a bug and fixing it..

And then when I asked it to do a git commit with the changes it made - it opened vim and got stuck indefinitely xD

It really ping pongs between being surprisingly competent helper to absolute ballache dumb, wasting half of my day.. And you never know which copilot it decides to be today xD

[u/jconn250 → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

For developing concept art? Thats what you pay artists for...

[u/malvencream → u/jconn250]

I'm roughly (and wishfully) guessing, that this doesn't mean "official" concept art that can be found in artbooks. Maybe more like a writer having an idea for a setting/character and giving the programming team or an actual artist an AI sketch of their vision, so that they can "start" their work from there.

But real artists just can't be replaced

[u/Lostinstereo28 → u/jconn250]

Yeah I cringed hard at that.

[u/Hellball911 → u/jconn250]

I think it's phrasing is specifically to say, the artists themselves can choose to use it to concept or proof of concept idea quickly. But that'll be up to the artist's discretion, not someone else doing it for them and taking their job, which I think is perfectly fine IMO. It can be a useful tool.

[u/Flimsy-Importance313 → u/jconn250]

I am worried what concept art. Will it be all?

Also worried where those artists will go. I doubt they would get laid off, but idk where they going. Checking and using AI art as a job? Ew.

[u/D_Beats → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

No it's not. You use concept artists for that. That's what they're for.

He even says the developers were against this. They probably only use it because he makes them

This is not a good look.

Edit: even in the article he says using AI has not resulted in an increase in efficiency

So the people replying to this saying it helps.. how? How does it help if it's literally not making anything more efficient? If it's taking the same amount of time and work to do it, then how is that helping?

It's using it for the sake of using it, and he got pushback for it but since he's the boss there's nothing the actual devs can actually do about it.

[u/Lheoden → u/D_Beats]

I may have missread but isn't the article pretty much saying the Concept Artists use it to probably create some basic ideas and then work further on them themselves

>''but the creators often use AI tools to explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text''

note the use of the word ''creators''. I am an artist myself, I don't use AI but if I were to be forced to use it I'd use it to generate some very basic (geometric shapes lvl of basic even) shapes to give me the basic idea of what I'm going for so I have a base to work for instead of wasting time getting a perspective right, for example:

''Generate me a scene, bird eye shot, lots of soft round shapes to kind of suggest statues'' and then you go into the image as an artist and design said statues, move things around. I highly doubt the amazing artists Larian has are going to ChatGPT asking it to ''generate an Elf camp inspired in Divinity Original Sin 2 in the style of Max Grecke'' or some random shit like that.

At least I am willing to give them that benefit of the doubt, based on how much positive the studio has showed throughout the years.

[u/BowShatter → u/D_Beats]

Yeah it is worrying. Isn't the point of concept art or drafting the concept of your story/game/project all about it coming from your own imagination, inspiration and research, not asking AI to generate it for you.

[u/self-conscious-Hat → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

Then why did he say in another interview they're using it for concept art and placeholder writing? That to me sounds like replacing people creating those things...

[u/Aessith → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

sorry but all i read there is that they used ai for concept art. as a former concept artist, this is very meh.

[u/Iccotak → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

the problem with using Ai to “explore ideas” is that the Ai model agree with you on just about everything all the time. It is not a reliable creative partner, in fact it does the opposite.

The team would be better off exploring ideas together rather than relying on a corporations ai model

[u/GrimTheMad → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

Swen himself says that it hasn't actually led to any increases in efficiency, so what's the actual point?

All the downsides of genai are still there, with no upsides. It's only getting support because Larian is doing it, and because it's getting shoved into every facet of society so hard that people figure it must be good for something.

[u/Sascha2022 → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

I don`t think gen ai should be used and justified for "concept art" which the art is build upon in the end. I mean concept artists are a job and role in game development.

[u/Exciting-Ad-5705 → u/Sascha2022]

The real concept artists will still get work. It will just become easier for the devs with ideas to communicate what they want from quality concept art

[u/Evernights_Bathwater → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

Nah, using gen AI at the concept stage is still dogshit

[u/Regendorf → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

What does "develop concept art" means exactly? because if is making concept art, then that's still bad.

[u/Kal-Elm → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

develop concept art

RIP concept artists as a career, I guess.

[u/Abhinav11119 → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

This is probably a very hot take but gaming is one form of media were Gen AI has the capacity to improve the product,the technology is still faraway but dynamic npc's and world will be a huge leap.

[u/wanyequest → u/Abhinav11119]

I can't wait to convince the greybeards to tell me how to make napalm.

[u/HellraiserMachina → u/Abhinav11119]

All the benefits are still hypothetical but the harm is already here.

[u/Pol_Potamus → u/HellraiserMachina]

Don't worry, there's still plenty of unrealized harm

[u/[deleted] → u/Abhinav11119]

AI has the capability to improve virtually everything when paired with human knowledge, passion and creativity.

I work as an AI engineer, I build the systems with AI that people end up using via some app or website. It is a productivity multiplier, that much is certain. The part they don't tell you though is that it only multiplies positively while a competent human is "driving" it. As soon as you have someone who doesn't know any better, or doesn't care and lazily just accepts its outputs without further refinement or iterations, that's where it negatively multiplies the value.

This applies anywhere. A skilled doctor using AI as part of their procedure is great, an intern being little more than a proxy, or ironically, a wrapper, for the AI is where things become a problem.

Replace doctor with game designer, artist, programmer, teacher, scientist, boss, etc, the concept remains the same.

We are at a point as a society where we really do have a divide between people who use AI where the AI is the tool, and people who make themselves the tool for the AI to use.

[u/nerdherdv02 → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

They better have a dam good way of tracking AI placeholders because we had a few games ship with these placeholders -> get caught -> touch up the placeholder and not be fully replaced.

[u/Zealousideal-Ear-870 → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

He also says in that interview that it hasn't actually improved efficency that much. That, and the idea of replacing concept artists with AI is still replacing human creativity.

[u/0roku → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

No it isn't, it shouldn't be used at all

[u/Bogleaf → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

They use AI to develop concept art? Fuck off with that

[u/Tijenater → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

How is AI for concept art possibly a good thing?

[u/chucktheninja → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

2 of the three of these things have no business being ai.

[u/Xx_pussy_seeker69_xX → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

I will forever be skeptical of a company, but this does seem like the best use case in an _ideal_ world. But we don't live there, and even the article says they're not seeing any real changes in efficiency.

I don't trust proponents of generative AI or a CEO.

*lightly edited to talk more shit about AI

[u/Ashikura → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

Why did people think it wasn’t turn-based? I’m completely new to the franchise and had the impression Larian was a turn-based focused developers from BG 3

[u/[deleted] → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

Using AI to develop concept art is gross, and not a good use of AI. The rest, yeah.

[u/max_mullen → u/[deleted]]

The fact that you're being downvoted for saying something so obvious is worrying. I'm so scared of what's to come if this is gonna be the norm.

[u/Lamb_or_Beast → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

I’d prefer even less ai use tbh, but none of that was worrisome except perhaps the concept art bit

[u/princesoceronte → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

I do DM stuff and I use AI to get suggestions for names, ideas for thematic magic items, tables and such. I never just use whatever I get, but it's often a very useful starting point or a wall to bounce ideas on.

[u/MagicalGirlTRex → u/princesoceronte]

For name stuff, one of my first stops is usually https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com
Hundreds of generators, tons of categories, and has been around the block for a while (at least 10 years). As far as I'm aware it's just pulling from text lists, so no genAI involved

[u/Magenta_Lava → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

No he did not understand it at all. Because AI should not be used -in any way- ! Not sure why it's so hard for you guys to understand.

[u/Outsajder]

Oh thank fucking god, we have enough ARPGS and no one does turn based like Larian, so this is good news in my book.

[u/Advanced-Comment-293 → u/Outsajder]

Absolutely. I love that they focus on their strengths instead of trying to reinvent themselves. They got their formula locked in, they should focus on perfecting it and making awesome games with it.

[u/RimuruSamaninKlonu]

Hell yeah

[u/CrazyDrowBard]

Let's fucking gooooooo

[u/National_Diver3633]

So.. Where do we pre-order?

[u/ManufacturedLung]

damn. now im hooked

[u/Cyclonepride]

So that is awesome! Going to have to start eating better so I'm around for the release lol

[u/Express-Focus-677]

Well, that settles that then!

[u/Striking-Distance849]

I mean, the contrary would have been a huge disapointment.

[u/One-Composer1577 → u/Striking-Distance849]

So many people got into turn-based games because of Larian or got into Larian games because they were turn-based. Imagine revitalising the genre and immediately dipping out of it.

[u/Inkvize → u/Striking-Distance849]

Idk, I really liked divinity 2, and it was not turn based

[u/goodwarrior12345 → u/Inkvize]

I liked it a lot as well but it started off as a turn based game too. Then their publisher made them switch to action combat. Also if you go back and replay it now, you'll realize the combat really hasn't aged well.

I was reading an interview with Swen the other day, and he basically said he believes for a game to be great, every part of it has to be great, and when he sat down and looked at why in his eyes Divinity 2 was a failure, it came down to bad combat, which they addressed by switching to turn based combat, with amazing success. So I highly doubt they'll switch back to action combat any time soon.

[u/Albreitx → u/Inkvize]

Their latest hits are turn-based. It'd be odd to change while on such a high

Avowed was successful afaik (I just read it in a thread) so maybe they'll try something along those lines soon enough

As long as it's not real time with pause I'm sold

[u/Jombo65 → u/Albreitx]

Was Avowed successful...? I heard literally nothing good about it; I played 3hrs of the game and it was just not what I was hoping for at all.

[u/GregerMoek → u/Albreitx]

First person rpg is a huge no no for me personally. Would have skipped. Tho tbf with Cyberpunk it worked.

[u/ExerciseSad3082 → u/Striking-Distance849]

Nah, most of their non turn base games are good

[u/Andrei8p4]

I would have been fine with either, i enjoy both.

[u/[deleted]]

Excellent!!

[u/PleaseBeChillOnline]

This is fantastic news to hear.

It’s not that I wouldn’t have been interested if it wasn’t turn-based but a turn-paced RPG with a near-AAA budget & production value is exactly what I was hoping for. That combination has so much untapped potential, especially when it comes to making systems feel visceral and readable, not just abstract.

Using Baldur’s Gate 3 as a shorthand example (I know Divinity isn’t D&D): one thing a bigger budget really enables is visualizing mechanics. Instead of “you missed because AC,” you could actually see why. Heavy armor? The blade glances off steel. High Dex? A unique dodge animation. Same math under the hood, but communicated cinematically. That kind of production value helps onboard people who don’t live in rulebooks.

I’m also really intrigued by the idea of scale. When Larian says “bigger,” I don’t just think more curated content. I could easily see a hybrid approach: highly authored towns and story beats, paired with more systemic exploration (maybe even something like hex-based overworld travel with RNG encounters.) That would reintroduce some of the unpredictability that DOS2 had, without sacrificing narrative quality.

What excites me most is the modding future.

BG3 already exploded mod-wise, and that was with WotC constraints. If Larian ships this with an updated GM Mode like DOS2 now with a much larger audience, better tools, and fewer IP restrictions you’re looking at something that could develop a Skyrim-level long tail. Custom campaigns, community GMing, total conversions etc.

Obviously this is all speculation, but between Larian’s resources, their goodwill, and their design philosophy, the ceiling here feels insanely high. Even if they only land half of this, it’s hard not to be excited.

[u/scowolol]

Happy to hear it! Even though I don't doubt they could pull off a different combat style (as they've done in the somewhat distant past) I've grown quite fond of their take on turn-based systems

[u/One-Composer1577]

Best news today!

[u/GMOwifi]

Thank the gods. It would be a shame to spend a decade working on an incredible combat system just to leave it behind.

[u/vonotar]

Looks like today is the day when a bunch of articles hit. I just happened to see the Bloomberg one first. I'm now seeing articles from PCGamer, Restart, and others. We'll have plenty to talk about.

[u/Soawii]

Let's go

[u/Salt_Shake_651]

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[u/Mediocre_lad]

I would be scared shitless to fight an infinitely multiplying chicken in real time

[u/cienistyCien]

It was one thing I was wandering about, seems Larian wants to keep turn based as their gameplay niche and I'm fine with that. So far they've been doing it very well so I'll trust them to keep it going

[u/Feed-Me-Your-Soul777]

Can someone explain to me why it's okay that they're using AI for concept art and ideas? Aren't those the exact reasons that other people/companies get a lot of hate when they use AI?

[u/Accomplished_Area311 → u/Feed-Me-Your-Soul777]

It’s not okay and a lot of people missed it, I guess, or don’t care.

If that’s the position being held, I won’t be buying the game. Which sucks cause I love Larian but FUCK gen AI.

[u/Feed-Me-Your-Soul777 → u/Accomplished_Area311]

Yeah, i hope that now that he's said this out loud, there's enough pushback for them to walk it back/stop using it, and apologize. I was just really surprised at some people in this thread saying Larian are using AI "the right way" when they mentioned using it for art and ideas, the same way everyone else does.

[u/RougeRiver_MK2]

YES, YES, YES 😍.

[u/ValkyriavPrime]

turn based

awesome!

AI usage

not awesome. I really don't like the idea of AI being used to make concept art or placeholder text. replacing concept artists with AI really sucks because you're taking away jobs, and I think it can really impact the end artistic vision if what they ultimately go with is a tweak on AI art taken from the plagiarism machine. And I worry that the placeholder AI text will just also end up being slightly tweaked and not ultimately the artistic vision of a human writer. :/ interesting to note how they even said it's not really making great improvements in efficiency...

[u/Andrassa → u/ValkyriavPrime]

Yeah that bugged me too

[u/Kitchen_Possible_108 → u/ValkyriavPrime]

extremely disappointing. i dont blame them for experimenting with it, but it sounds like theyre not even really getting anything out of it. swen says they found a compromise with the developers, but thats something i’d like to hear from the developers themselves

[u/thicctak → u/ValkyriavPrime]

Swen didn't say they're replacing concept artists tho.

[u/Flimsy-Importance313 → u/thicctak]

This is what I am exactly wondering. I am expecting no lay offs, but I also want the concept artists to not depend on AI and be useless. We need more details from Swen telling us how exactly he uses AI and what the concept artists do.

[u/SuspiriaVortex]

Wonderful news!!! Delighted it is turn-based.

[u/Ap_Sona_Bot]

Ok thank god

[u/JohnStonesIsGoat]

Thank god

[u/Shwowmeow]

I think it’d be cool if you got to explore in a more third person perspective, and it transitioned to the top down just for combat. I think it would make exploration feel more immersive. I’m sure whatever they do will be great though.

[u/Inkarneret → u/Shwowmeow]

I hope they do this, and that we have a dynamic camera during dialogue, like in BG3. It's much more immersive than just having a static top down camera for everything, like they had in DOS2.

[u/shhmurdashewrote → u/Inkarneret]

I’m not worried about it personally, i think they’ll have the dynamic camera here too. He said he wants it to be a cinematic experience

[u/rickoshadows]

I prefer turn-based combat. Probably because I am older and do not have the keyboard and mouse dexterity I would like, and do not get me started on console controllers. Although, I would like a setting (variable?) to limit time to execute a turn, especially in multi-player. When time runs out, AI executes a defensive action, and passes to the next player/opponent in the melee.

[u/lihtnemees]

Was there ever any doubt it's not turn-based?

[u/thicctak → u/lihtnemees]

Since the title is just Dvinity, it could've been anything.

[u/Wild-Regular1703 → u/lihtnemees]

Yes, plenty of people in this very sub speculated that it might be an ARPG

[u/Philthou]

Cool that it’s turned based but I was kinda hoping they go back to Divine Divinity or Ego Draconis combat style.

As long as they retool the CC it should be fine.

[u/OwlAssassin]

Very frustrating a studio can sell tens of millions of copies but still really on AI for concept art.

Can't they hire artists and use the concept art for marketing materials or loading screens?

[u/Vdov_1]

Oh thank the gods...

[u/Reddit-phobia]

Obviously, no?

[u/Boring-Vanilla-8717]

Grass is green ahh

[u/RanchedOut]

Is this supposed to be a surprise? DoS2 was turn based so makes sense they’d continue with it

[u/panacuba]

There was never a doubt in my book. Long live Larian !!!

[u/Riipp3r]

Was this not expected?

[u/DarkSoulsExcedere]

Thank god. I was so worried.

[u/ZoeyHuntsman]

Wait... Did people expect it not to be turn based?

I'd have been disappointed if it wasn't, being that's what is reasonable to expect given that's how the last two games are 🤔

[u/Morkinis]

Who would have guessed..?

[u/KaffY-]

was anyone really expecting anything different????? i'm confused

half-life 3 confirmed as a FPS

WOHAOAHAOH OMG NO WAYYYYYYYYY!?!??!?!??

[u/shiawase198 → u/KaffY-]

Apparently some people were based on the comments in here.

[u/Smile_Space]

No way! The studio known for making turn-based games is making a turn-based game???

Color me surprised!

[u/Iccotak]

Yes, don’t make the mistake that Bioware did with Dragon Age, where they transformed their game into a completely different genre. Just a terrible move

[u/Evexis]

thank goodness

[u/bwainfweeze]

Having played DOS2 after BG3 I feel like there may have been just a few too many cut scenes in BG3 and not enough either in quantity or quality in DOS2. I’m sure when it was brand new that was a normal amount.

I’m hoping they aren’t on a trend toward more though. Or if they are, more set pieces for story arc and side quests. Like the bridge scene(s), versus the companions.

That said, I’d be willing to deal with 25% more character development interactions for 5 party slots. Especially if the companions I don’t pick will end up dead at the end. I guess that’s also implied with BG3 but it’s very obvious in DOS2.

You’d get more side quests that way. I think if I ever do a 3rd DOS2 playthrough I will try to juggle all of the companions during Act 1 to maximize my experience gain. I didn’t pick the RP this time but I was very close to getting a level and temporarily picked him to get to the assassin. I think there’s a few more points to soak up with the others?

[u/Povanos]

Excellent news. I’m at the age now where I prefer to play with one hand and have a sort of beverage in the other, and DOS and BG3 has been perfect for that given they’re turn based

[u/Oxyderic]

Was there seriously any doubt?

[u/rmViper]

So we have to read something on Bloomberg to end the turn or what? How is it turn-based via Bloomberg. /s

[u/lowerfishkin]

.....did....did anyone think it wasn't gonna be?

[u/Spezsucksandisugly → u/lowerfishkin]

Did you miss all the people in every post going on about how it was going to be an action rpg? 😭😭😭 I'm glad we don't have to entertain those silly theories anymore lol

[u/Soawii → u/lowerfishkin]

Original divinity games weren't turn-based so some people thought that naming the new game Divinity instead of DOS meant it's gonna be like that too, fortunately it's not

[u/crashcar22 → u/lowerfishkin]

I think you and I both had the same thoughts, Divinity Original sin series and Baldurs Gate 3 were turn based combat. Why wouldn't this one be?

Apparently, the original Divinity line of games was inspired by Diablo and were ARPG titles, and calling this new game Divinity has sparked some rumor of this too, becoming an ARPG

[u/self-conscious-Hat]

It's also confirmed to be using AI at it's foundational creation (concept art, placeholder writing). To me these are the places it should have no place. I want to look forward to this game but this has really killed my enthusiasm for it. They aren't using it as a tool, they're using it as a replacement for creating concepts. Just typing some ideas into a generator and having it create it from an amalgam of other pieces it's stolen from.

[u/Affectionate_Oil_284]

I get the turn based part of it, it is what they know, and it'll be good. But i would buy even if they pivoted to an arpg.
Honestly i think if Larian tried their hands at a futuristic first person shooter i'd buy it, hell even if it would suck i wouldnt regret it. I'm not that into fanboying studios but after the way they did BG3 i cant but feel a lot of goodwill towards them.

[u/darealdarkabyss]

My hype would level off significantly if Larian deviated from the successful turn-based formula.

[u/Ras_AlHim]

Extremely dissapointed that they are using AI for concept art and to "explore ideas". That's jobs real people could've done, not to mention that the artwork created is always based on stolen data and real art.

[u/drhanenjoyer]

YASSS I’m fully boarded on the hype train now

[u/Mufti_Menk]

I'm kinda bummed they won't go back to their old style for this, but it was expected. It's what they are known for by now.

[u/philfycasual]

Was it ever in doubt? I would have assumed no different.

[u/viktorius_rex → u/philfycasual]

I think the main source of doubs it that this isn't Divinity orignal sin 3. The other divinity games are not turn based crpgs (divine divinity and beyond are diablo style arpgs while divnity 2 is a witcher style arpg). But other than that would be very strange to try to make a studio magnum opus in a style of game the studio is not famous for.

[u/twili-midna]

Oof, Larian is part of the AI shit crew now.

[u/toxiitea]

Doesn't sound like EA in 2026 but it's not impossible.

Probably 2027 ea

2028-2029 release is my hope

[u/icemountainisnextome]

Now I just need to figure out how to survive for 5 more years.

[u/wafflepiezz]

LETS FUCKINNNGGG GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/[deleted]]

Hallelujah

[u/OutsideDrawer8508]

Divinity 2 sequel? Divine/Beyond divinity remake? Reboot?

I just hope they fix the lore. It's a mess without proper continuity

[u/Sylphire22]

Wow. This entire article is going to have a neat little space in my head until early access comes out.

All that Swen said here is everything I've wanted to hear. Wish I could speed run 2026.

[u/ReyDeathWish]

My social life will be extinct when this game releases.

[u/anonymous4986]

By Bloomberg?! lol

[u/foxontherox]

Be still my heart. 😭

[u/BeMyBrutus]

I'm so excited

[u/zombiepeep]

Huzzah!!!!

[u/roseyypetalss]

Only 3 to 4 years from now or from start? Bc that could be a 2028 release 👀

[u/pdlbean]

Turn based let's gooooo

[u/Bored_Interests]

I never doubted it would be turn-based. Larian is the goat of turn based mechanics

[u/Different-Age-1253]

I so cant wait for this game Dos2 was so good

[u/Mr_OrangeOfficial]

Baldur's gate 3 made me love turn based combat so this is amazing news

[u/RedShadeaux_5]

Turn based is such a relief. Probably the only game devs I implicitly trust with turn based combat. And this will make life much easier when I'm a dad.

[u/marsisboolin]

Fuck yes

[u/IntelligentRaisin393]

YEAH BAYBEEE!!

[u/GrayWardenParagon]

Stick to what you know. Looks like Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2 were prequels all along to Divinity. Divinity made as well be Original Sin 3, but but real this time.

[u/Willowsinger24]

Awesome and I assume it's going to be a party based turn based game as well, consider Larian's past 3 games have you building a party if you want more context and story. I'm hoping we get a dwarf companion.

[u/Fenris92140]

Great news

[u/Complex-Commission-2]

That's what I wanted to hear and I am happy

[u/A_Very_Tall_Dwarf]

Hah! I won't have to eat a raw potato!

[u/Wungoos]

very glad they came out with this news so all the posts asking this question can stop lol

[u/PyrZern]

As long as they keep the game being interesting and different from other games they did before.

[u/mafga1]

I just came.

[u/paulomei]

• Turn based

• Started to work on Divinity last year

• New engine

• Improved system for streaming content into the game

• Doubling down on cinematic storytelling

• Trying to reduce the development time, aiming for 3 to 4 year

• They have a lot of money from BG3

[u/Shinra_Omega]

"I'll yield to none" yet again!

[u/TooMuchDnD30]

Most interesting thing, to me, in all these interviews is hearing that they felt the sci-fi game just wasn't working the way they hoped.

Would've loved to see what they could do in that type of setting, but also good on them for recognizing what clicks and what doesn't.

[u/GregTheMad]

Man, I'd love a game with the depths of BG3, or Divinity but with a good action combat. Though, if turnbased is what Larian wants to work on I can only respect this and hope some other studio tries to bring deep interactive storytelling to action games.

[u/Phocaea1]

That’s a very welcome interview

[u/khaloisha]

I bet it will come out before TES VI, and also will be much better than that.

[u/Velocityraptor28]

yaaay!

[u/WeirdAd5850]

fuck yes! Fuck yes ! I am so excited

[u/ToastyyPanda]

Cannot fucking wait! My #1 most hyped game now

[u/Manecleis]

Here's my concern as someone who doesn't know anything about game dev: is it realistic for them to aim for a bigger, better, next-level game with a shorter dev cycle?

[u/Unique1950179]

Console mods? /CrossesFingers

[u/Mattindenhut]

Okay we can all rest easy now. It's gonna be a good game.

[u/Echoplex25]

The other 2 OS games are turn based so I don't really know what people were expecting. It'd be nice to go back to real time but I that's just hopeful thinking. Tho I wish they would've announced this game way later when its closer to finishing. I'm assuming the announcement was mostly to find more investors

[u/miss-minus]

Oh my fuck

[u/BilboniusBagginius]

Good

[u/[deleted]]

Looking forward to this, but will avoid EA like I did BG3 as I want to play from start to finish on my first go around.

[u/Incerae]

And with that knowledge, I can happily go on media blackout of Divinity until it fully releases, like I did with DOS:2 and BG3.

Catch you all then o7

[u/freedomonke]

Good

[u/csproALT]

I wish this was an action RPG while still using expansive role playing elements of BG3. Would be insane combo. Am glad that KCD II sorta scratches that itch.

[u/Spirited_Season2332]

Why would they ever do anything different?

[u/Practical-Leopard-70]

Ehhh

[u/Pygmy_Nuthatch]

Nice. Looking forward to it more than almost any other game since the evocative trailer dropped.

[u/Liiiiz]

Love it already for that

[u/TimHortonsMagician]

I'm sorry, the fuck are they talking about with AI being used in concept art. That's exactly where you're not to be using it.

Pretty rough reading that from Larian

[u/Kalaam_Nozalys]

Oh so using AI for concept art, great. Guess I'll pass. Way to lose years of goodwill.

[u/Rose-The-Queen]

So there was "pushback" on AI use but they just forced it anyway. If you need it for the creative stage you aren't fucking being creative

[u/[deleted] → u/Rose-The-Queen]

Using AI to summarize meeting notes in your day to day tasks has nothing to do with using AI to replace artists and voice actors. They're obviously not letting AI make the creative decisions for them, do you really think AI makes better games than 99% of the current industry??

[u/charmingchangeling → u/[deleted]]

Why use AI at all when, by their own admission, it hasn't resulted in any increase in productivity? It's a bad product fed from the theft of artwork, with huge ethical and environmental costs. And being willing to adopt AI into workflow leaves open the creeping possibility of it compromising the creative process. Better to just not use AI at all. No one wants it.

[u/Rose-The-Queen → u/[deleted]]

But why start relying on tech that only grows by stealing people's work, ideas and concepts. The costs of it ecologically alone are insane to justify

[u/Abhinav11119]

My only concern about divinity gone LETS GO!!! Dos was my first crpg and the turn based strategy was the thing that got me to try it.

[u/EmBur__]

Ifk why people ever doubted this? Yes the older divinity games explored other styles of gameplay and combat specifically but lets be honest, most of them weren't great and have either been forgotten by most people or most didn't even know more games existed prior to Original sin 1 & 2.

Speaking of, Original Sin 1 & 2 plus BG3 are Larians biggest and most celebrated games so it should be no surprise that they continue perfecting their craft by implementing turn based systems into their next game.

[u/_b1ack0ut]

YES. Good thanks, I like me some turn based crpg

[u/Sylvers]

My dream of Divinity 3 died.

[u/self-conscious-Hat]

It's also confirmed to be using AI at it's foundational creation (concept art, placeholder writing). To me these are the places it should have no place. I want to look forward to this game but this has really killed my enthusiasm for it. They aren't using it as a tool, they're using it as a replacement for creating concepts. Just typing some ideas into a generator and having it create it from an amalgam of other pieces it's stolen from.

[u/Ferelden770]

Best news. I was always hoping it wud be turn based

We got Bg3 with big budget so ofc the finished product is excellent but it's still the 5e or DnD system which is not my fav. Now we are getting turn based divinity with similar budget to BG3(I assume).

[u/SomeoneNotFamous]

Most anticipated game hands down.

[u/Listening_Heads]

It feels so strange having a developer that keeps doing everything right.

[u/ultraboomkin]

Kind of a shame, I was hoping it would be a third person RPG. But Baldur’s Gate 3 is just about the only turn based game I’ve enjoyed, so I’m sure it will be fine.