Just two years after winning Game of the Year for Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios is wasting no time showing off its next project to the world. It teased its next RPG at the Game Awards and it can’t come soon enough. It’s called Divinity and it promises to be “even larger” than Baldur’s Gate 3.
We didn’t get any real details beyond that, or even a glimpse of gameplay, but we did get a pretty gnarly cinematic trailer that showed a man being tortured at the center of a bacchanalian ritual until hellspawn literally poured out of his body:
The reveal follows a multi-week guessing game linked to a mysterious statue that recently appeared in the California desert. While fans speculated about possible connections to Diablo 4 and The Elder Scrolls 6, others discovered a recent trademark application for long-running Larian series Divinity that included a strikingly similar-looking symbol.
The Divinity franchise began back in 2002 with Divine Divinity, only the second game Larian ever shipped. It was a hack-and-slash action-RPG in the vein of Diablo, set in a world that revolved around magic and demonic cults The Belgium-based studio went on to release multiple sequels, prequels, and spin-offs, eventually culminating in Divinity: Original Sin and Original Sin II, isometric RPGs which won acclaim with their shift to turn-based combat and focus on story and characters.
None of those games were as successful as Baldur’s Gate 3, however. Many fans expected the studio to move onto a sequel in the Dungeons & Dragons-based IP, but the studio decided to move onto new challenges instead. “It’s going to be up to Wizards of the Coast, because it’s their IP, to find somebody to take over the torch,” director Swen Vincke said back in 2024. “We think we did our job and so, for us, it’s time to get a new puppy.”
There was six years between Divinity: Original Sin II and Baldur’s Gate 3. Hopefully it’s not six more before we can play Divinity.
