Inquisition delivers the largest Dragon Age adventure with sublime regions, deeply written companions and a clever judgement system. The pacing drags at times but BioWare's writing rediscovers a true epic sweep.
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Action RPG1 player18+
Description
RPG by BioWare and EA, November 2014. The Herald of Andraste leads the Inquisition to seal Veil rifts releasing demons and face the Elder One threat. Immense open world with three distinct regions, Inquisition agent recruitment and management, tactical combat and lasting political decisions. Third Dragon Age and one of the most ambitious RPGs of its generation.
Dragon Age - Inquisition review
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Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Vast dark-fantasy landscapes, sumptuous natural light and detailed architecture: Thedas unfurls a world of remarkable breadth and coherence. The richness of the environments and the polished design of the peoples give a rare credibility. This visual ambition, vast and inspired, masterfully serves the Western RPG.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"Pleasant"
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Roaming vast regions, steering your Inquisition from the war table and assembling a party of sharply clashing personalities builds an adventure where every zone and every quest opens a fresh goal. Shaping your choices and your companions rewards the time you sink in. The emptier stretches and filler quests do weigh things down, but the scale of the world holds you for dozens of hours.
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Thedas unfolds as a continent to comb through region by region, each one hiding rifts to seal, camps to reclaim, codex lore and companions to win over. Between the central political thread, the War Table operations and the hunt for hidden wonders, you settle in for dozens of hours. That sprawling generosity, deepened by choices that echo to the very end, keeps it standing as a Western RPG benchmark.
A vast BioWare RPG, Dragon Age Inquisition blends open-region exploration, faction management and polished companions in an award-winning fantasy fresco. Widespread in the West, rarer in its Brazilian pressing, its interest lies in this genre-blockbuster status rather than widespread scarcity. A piece valued by fans of ambitious Western RPGs.
Is Dragon Age - Inquisition still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2014 on Xbox 360, BioWare's Dragon Age Inquisition vastly widens the series' scale, with sprawling regions to explore and the rebuilding of an organisation, the Inquisition, against a threat tearing the sky open. The sumptuous art direction, the richness of the companions and the depth of the political choices impress. On the previous generation console, the visuals and the zone segmentation show technical limits. The side quests can feel diluted. But the ambition and the writing carry the whole. For fans of narrative role playing and open world fantasy, this entry keeps fine interest today.
