Divinity Series Sees Huge Boost On Steam After TGA Announcement

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is enjoying a new lease on life as thousands of players return to Rivellon after The Game Awards, spurred on by the gory Burning Man festival that was the new Divinity trailer.

D:OS2 was hitting a peak of 4,000 players before the event, but this weekend, it reached an impressive 9,325 players, doubling its average. This spike in interest has also pushed the game into the top 200 most-played on Steam, which might not sound like much, but it’s pretty impressive for a decade-old cRPG.

The first Original Sin is likewise enjoying a boost in players, rising from its November peak of 941 to 1,757. But it’s not just the Original Sin games that are seeing a renaissance with the new TGA trailer; there are literally tens of us flocking back to the originals, too.

Every Divinity Game Is Enjoying A Boost In Players

The artwork for Divine Divinity, showing a scantly clad female angel ascending with her arms stretched out. Evil looking monsters can bee seen in the shadows behind her.

Divine Divinity was hovering at a peak of 33 players before TGA, but it more than tripled that number after the new trailer with a peak of 153. If you’re comfortable with old-school RPGs, like the original Baldur’s Gate and Diablo, it’s well worth trying, especially as the canon playthrough is Lucian rescuing Damian – two major players in the series.

The sequel, Beyond Divinity, also saw a little bump after the new trailer, increasing from one player to nine. Whoever was playing on the morning of TGA completely alone, I see you, and respect you.

Then we have the third game in the series, confusingly titled Divinity 2 (though it’s Ego Draconis in my heart), which jumped from a peak of 62 players to 140 after The Game Awards; that doesn’t sound as impressive as ‘thousands of players return’ like with Original Sin 2, sure, but that’s still double its most recent average.

Divinity Dragon Commander gameplay of a dragon flying into battle.

Of course, we can’t forget Dragon Commander, the RTS spin-off where you must “reunite a broken empire and become the new emperor” by… turning into a dragon. It’s the oft unspoken about middle child of the series, but even it saw a boost after TGA, as its peak shot up from eight players to 23. Like I said, tens of us.

There’s clearly an apetite for more Divinity, as the entire series, however small the bump, is receiving newfound interest. With the Winter Sale and a leaked PS5 update for Original Sin 2 on the horizon, we’ll no doubt see those figures climb even further, as a mix of old and new fans return to familiarise themselves with the story of Lucian faking his death and plunging Rivellon into sheer chaos again and again and again… and again.