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11 The Divinity reveal trailer is the cinematic teaser Larian Studios showed at The Game Awards 2025. It introduced the game's dark fantasy tone but did not include gameplay footage.
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34 What the Trailer Shows
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56 The teaser opens on a grim ritual: a bound figure is burned alive inside a towering wooden effigy while a crowd looks on. The celebration spirals into a frenzied, grotesque revel, and the figures are drawn together into a single monstrous form. The shape they create mirrors the Hellstone, the statue Larian had placed in the real world ahead of the show.
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78 Tone and Themes
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910 The trailer leans into horror tinged dark fantasy, a noticeably grimmer register than the brighter palette of the studio's earlier Divinity games. The teaser itself withholds plot and characters, though Larian confirmed alongside the reveal that the game is set in Rivellon.
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1112 What It Confirms
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1314 Even without gameplay, the reveal was paired with statements confirming the genre (a turn-based RPG), a new custom ruleset built for the game rather than licensed tabletop rules, the Rivellon setting, and multiplayer support (single player and cooperative play). The full list is on the Confirmed Gameplay and Features page.
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1516 Tone and What the Team Has Said
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1718 Alongside the trailer, the studio's writing lead described the game as more grounded in tone than its past work, while leaving room for humor, and said an evil playthrough can let players leave the world worse than they found it. On the trailer itself, the head of animation suggested that rewatching it offers hints about the playable races, while stopping short of revealing the full roster. The specific lineup of playable races has not been confirmed.
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1920 A Note on Cinematic Teasers
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2122 As a cinematic teaser, the trailer is not representative of moment to moment gameplay, which Larian has not yet shown. Treat it as a tone setter rather than a preview of systems.
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2324 Where to Watch
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2526 The trailer was first shown during The Game Awards 2025 broadcast and was published to Larian Studios' official channels the same day. As the only official footage from the project so far, it remains the canonical source for tone, visual direction, and the look of the Hellstone iconography.
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2728 Reception of the Reveal
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2930 The trailer was widely described as one of the show's most discussed segments, both for the unexpected return to the Divinity name after Baldur's Gate 3 and for its grim tone. Coverage focused on how different the dark imagery felt from the brighter palette of the earlier Divinity games, and on the unanswered question of what the new ruleset and combat will look like in motion. Larian has not yet shown any gameplay.
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3132 Cross References
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3334 For the show segment itself, see The Game Awards 2025 Reveal. For the desert sculpture the trailer mirrors, see Hellstone Statue.