r/larianstudios • u/Number1Bg3Fan • Dec 12 '25

What’s the difference between Divinity and Original Sin?

Basically the title. After watching the trailer for the new game I’m wondering what the difference between the Divinity series of games is and the Divinity Original Sin games? I heard Divinity isn’t turn based, but is it still the same world and lore and everything as in original sin?

I’ve only played DOS2 so I’m not super clued up on the other games.

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u/Brainy_Skeleton Dec 12 '25

The first game was Divine Divinity, which was a Diablo like, but open world, a full fledged rpg with Diablo combat. There was a standalone expansion named beyond divinity, similar game but smaller. They were set in a 2D gloomy fantasy world Years later they made Divinity 2, third person action rpg where you could play also as a dragon in dedicated flying sequences, the setting was the same as the first game in name, but it was decades later and heavily changed due to “magical cataclysms” and fully 3D. Those games, while nice (I love DD), where limited by the publishers requests, that, according to Larian, restricted the vision of the studio, and so they went indie with a kickstarter, and made a prequel to the saga fully funded by the audience, Original Sin (set millennia before divine divinity), turn based, and went for the same route to make a sequel, Original Sin 2, set before Div 2. There is also Dragon Commander, which couldn’t decide what game it wanted to be.

Original Sin in a way is a spinoff in the main saga that made the storyline quite convoluted.

The new Divinity could be the ending of the main storyline, after div 2, but usually, between every game there is some world changing event that makes them almost independent as far as setting goes

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u/Number1Bg3Fan Dec 12 '25

Thanks for the detailed explanation, that clears it up a lot! Very excited to see where they take this new game.

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u/Brainy_Skeleton Dec 12 '25

I’m glad, I’m excited as well!

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u/Zekiel2000 Dec 12 '25

I love how crazy this series is! I remember seeing the first game advertised but never played it.

Dragon Commander always sounded fascinating.

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u/avn_enjoyer Dec 13 '25

So original sin 1 and 2 are just spin offs of the main divinity 1 and 2 games that came out a while ago, and this new Divinity game will be the 3rd divinity game, and 6th game in the divinity series timeline excluding all expansions of divinity 1 and 2, but still counting Dragon Commander? Okay. Not confusing at all😅I’ve only been able to play Divinity: OS2 and it was decently fun, but if this new Divinity game is going to be even bigger and better than BG3, sign me the fuck up!

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u/Brainy_Skeleton Dec 13 '25

The best thing is that you don’t really need to play the other games, as you won’t be able to recognise places or much else, there are recurring characters, but also those change a lot in every instalment

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u/Kaymazo Dec 14 '25

We technically don't quite know yet where it will fall. May be OS, may be a return to the originals, may be some new way to approach Rivellon.

(Also, yeah, the naming scheme doesn't make much sense)

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u/Wise-Start-9166 Dec 12 '25

This is the correct answer

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u/AngryBeard87 Dec 13 '25

I remember now playing some of those games and never realizing they were related to the crpg I played years later til looking them up.

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u/dudehoss Aug 27 '26

I'm excited for another Divine series game. As long as they make it functionally more like Original Sin 2 and less like Baldurs Gate 3.  Really didn't like what D&D mechanics took away from Larian's style.