The Divinity Revival Is Real, As D:OS2 Maintains Its Player Spike Eight Years From Launch

The Divinity Revival Is Real, As D:OS2 Maintains Its Player Spike Eight Years From Launch

From TheGamer (Written by Rhiannon Bevan) on | OpenCritic

Last December, Larian revealed its next game would be Divinity, a return to the series of the same name. The last entry in the Divinity series was Divinity: Original Sin 2 in 2017, well before Larian exploded into the mainstream with Baldur's Gate 3.

So, it's no surprise that players went to check Divinity: Original Sin 2 out, now that we know that there will be another entry in the series. But what's especially impressive is that a considerable number of these players are actually sticking with it, as even more than a month on from the Divinity reveal, it's easily surpassing 10,000 concurrent players on Steam alone.

Looking at the figures on SteamDB, we can see that the highest concurrent player count after the Divinity reveal was 27,409 on January 4. Since then, it's been dipping a bit, but it's still consistently hitting well over 10,000.

It might not seem too surprising at first, considering Baldur's Gate 3 still does live service numbers, but it's worth considering that D:OS2 is a lot less casual-friendly, at least in my humble opinion. Whether it's the different, non-DnD combat system or the difficulty spikes, it was reasonable to suspect that more than...

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