Divinity: Original Sin Hits $3.99 on Steam as Larian Prepares Its Next Divinity Game

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition is currently available on Steam for $3.99, a 90% discount from its usual $39.99 price. The offer runs until September 21 and matches the lowest price recorded for the game. Players looking for the more expansive package can also pick up the Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition - Collector's Edition for $6.99, down from $69.99.

The timing is particularly notable for anyone curious about Larian Studios' history before Baldur's Gate 3 became one of the defining RPG successes of 2023. While Larian is now at work on a newly announced Divinity project, the original Divinity: Original Sin remains a major part of the studio's modern identity: a tactical, systems-heavy fantasy adventure that helped establish the creative foundations later seen in its larger Dungeons & Dragons adaptation.

At four dollars, the Enhanced Edition is an unusually low-risk way to revisit--or discover--the game that put Larian's modern turn-based design in front of a much wider audience.

A historic low price, but not necessarily a one-time chance

SteamDB price history lists $3.99 as the lowest recorded Steam price for Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition. The Collector's Edition's $6.99 price is likewise its lowest recorded point. Those figures make the current promotion a standout deal, especially considering that the standard edition was originally priced at $39.99 and the Collector's Edition at $69.99.

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There is an important caveat for prospective buyers: this is not the first time the game has fallen to this price. Since May, Larian has returned the Enhanced Edition to $3.99 for several days at a time during recurring Steam promotions, including the 2026 Summer Sale, as well as during other sale periods. The Collector's Edition has similarly revisited its $6.99 low with near-monthly regularity since December 2025.

That history suggests players who miss the September 21 cutoff may see another deep discount later. Still, a sale returning in the future is never a guarantee, and anyone who has been holding off on trying the game has a clear opportunity during the current window. What the price record does make clear is that paying full price for this particular eight-year-old Enhanced Edition is difficult to justify when Larian has repeatedly made it available at a fraction of that cost.

Why Original Sin still matters in Larian's catalog

Released in 2015, Divinity: Original Sin arrived at a time when turn-based computer RPGs were far less prominent in the mainstream than they are today. It combined party-based tactical battles with a large amount of environmental interaction. Fire can spread, water can be electrified, poison clouds can be ignited, and player abilities can be chained together in ways that reward experimentation as much as raw character power.

That approach is central to why the game continues to be discussed alongside Larian's later work. The studio's games tend to encourage players to look beyond a straightforward attack command or a single intended solution. A fight can change because someone teleports an enemy into a hazard, creates an elemental surface, blocks a route, or finds an unexpected way to use the level itself. Many of the broad principles behind that design philosophy would become much more visible to a global audience with Baldur's Gate 3.

Original Sin also puts two player-created Source Hunters at the center of its story, with cooperative play woven directly into its structure. Its dialogue system allows the two protagonists to disagree and make decisions through a light competitive exchange, giving co-op partners a chance to role-play different priorities rather than simply following one player's choices. Even for solo players, that two-character setup gives the adventure a distinct personality.

The Enhanced Edition, now the standard version offered on Steam, built on the original release with improvements including full voice acting, revised content, controller support, and other refinements. It is not a new game by current standards, and newcomers should expect some of the rough edges common to ambitious mid-2010s RPGs. Its interface, pacing, humor, and narrative tone are not identical to what players may expect after Baldur's Gate 3. But its willingness to let players test bizarre plans remains a significant draw.

A useful starting point before the next Divinity

Larian has confirmed that it is returning to the Divinity series for its next game, marking the first new entry since Divinity: Original Sin II launched in 2017. The announcement has naturally created new interest in the earlier games, especially among players whose first encounter with the developer came through Baldur's Gate 3.

The new project does not yet have a release date. Based on the information publicly shared so far, it remains in an early enough state that a 2027 launch would appear to be the very earliest plausible target rather than an announced schedule. Fans should treat any timing beyond that as speculation until Larian provides a formal release plan.

Larian chief executive Swen Vincke has described the project as being at a development stage where substantial elements are still unfinished or rough, but where the identity of the game is beginning to emerge. It is the point where developers can start to feel a project taking shape, even while its eventual form remains highly flexible. That is an encouraging creative milestone, but it also underlines how far the team may still be from presenting a finished product.

Technical animation director Ricardo Ayasta has also offered one unusually specific assurance about the new game: its genital customization will receive manual attention from the team. The comment fits the studio's reputation for detailed character creation and its readiness to embrace the stranger sides of fantasy role-playing, though it naturally says little about the gameplay, story, scale, or systems of the next Divinity.

For now, the next game is best understood as a distant but real destination. Larian's return to a world it knows well comes after the enormous expectations created by Baldur's Gate 3, and that makes the studio's decision especially interesting. Rather than immediately making a direct follow-up to its Dungeons & Dragons hit, the team is moving back toward its own long-running setting and building a new chapter there.

Original Sin versus Original Sin II

Players exploring the series for the first time may wonder whether starting with the first Original Sin is necessary. It is not strictly required: Divinity: Original Sin II tells a separate story and is often viewed as the more polished, broader, and more accessible game. It also has a reputation as one of the strongest modern CRPGs, even before taking Larian's later blockbuster into account.

However, beginning with the 2015 game has its own advantages. It shows the studio iterating on the systems that it would later expand. It gives players more time with the series' particular brand of elemental chaos, offbeat humor, and problem-solving freedom. And for those planning to work through Larian's recent catalog while waiting for its next project, it offers a natural starting line.

The original also remains a substantial RPG in its own right. Its campaign can take a considerable amount of time, particularly for players who explore side quests, experiment with party builds, or play in co-op. The low sale price does not mean a small-scale experience; instead, it makes one of Larian's formative modern games accessible at the cost of a modest impulse purchase.

What to know before September 21

• Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition: $3.99 on Steam, reduced from $39.99.
• Discount: 90% off, matching the game's lowest recorded Steam price.
• Collector's Edition: $6.99, reduced from $69.99, also a recorded low.
• Sale end date: September 21.
• Future sale possibility: The same prices have returned several times in recent months, though a future repeat has not been confirmed.
• Next Divinity game: Larian has announced it, but no release date has been revealed.

For RPG fans who skipped Divinity: Original Sin the first time around, this sale is a compelling excuse to see where much of Larian's recent design lineage began. It may not have the production scale, cinematic presentation, or enormous cultural footprint of Baldur's Gate 3, but it has the crucial trait that made Larian's later work resonate: a readiness to let player curiosity turn a carefully planned encounter into complete fantasy chaos.

With the next Divinity still a long way off, there is ample time to catch up. The $3.99 Enhanced Edition price lasts only through September 21, and while it may return, it remains one of the most affordable ways to add a landmark tactical RPG to a PC library.