Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age: Origins is a third-person role-playing game positioned as a spiritual successor to the Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights franchises. You create your own character by choosing gender, appearance, race, and class. Combat plays out in real time with the option to pause at any moment, enabling tactical control, including an editor that lets you set detailed AI behavior for different situations. While the core storyline remains the same across characters, the game includes six unique prologues—two for each race. Upon release, Dragon Age: Origins received critical acclaim, with praise focused on its story, setting, characters, music, and combat system.

Set in the fictional kingdom of Ferelden during a time of civil strife, the game casts you as a warrior, mage, or rogue from an elven, human, or dwarven background. Recruited into the Grey Wardens—an ancient order sworn to oppose the monstrous Darkspawn—you are tasked with defeating the Archdemon that commands them and ending their invasion.