Larian Announces New Divinity Game at Game Awards

Larian Studios unveiled its next major project, a new entry in the long-running Divinity franchise simply titled Divinity, during The Game Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Thursday evening. The announcement resolved weeks of speculation surrounding a cryptic statue that appeared in California's Mojave Desert, later identified as the Hellstone, a central element in the game's lore.

The reveal featured a cinematic trailer depicting a fertility festival that spirals into chaos. In the footage, participants engage in a ritual around a massive wicker man structure, where an individual is burned alive at its center. As the flames consume him, grotesque horrors erupt from his body, transforming the totem into the eerie Hellstone statue that had puzzled gamers. Host Geoff Keighley introduced the trailer, noting that more details would follow in the coming months, but he emphasized that Divinity represents Larian's most ambitious undertaking to date, surpassing the scale of its 2023 blockbuster Baldur's Gate 3.

Larian, the Belgium-based developer known for innovative role-playing games, has deep roots in the Divinity series, which began in 2002 with Divine Divinity, an action RPG...