Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is a rpg, fantasy and story rich game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.
Released on October 26th 2010 is available only on Windows in 4 languages: English, Italian, Spanish - Spain and German.

It has received 28,412 reviews of which 24,599 were positive and 3,813 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP (SP3) or Windows Vista (SP1) or Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Single 1.6 Ghz Processor (or equivalent) or AMD 64 2.0 GHz Processor (or equivalent)
  • Memory: 1GB (1.5 GB Vista and Windows 7)
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon X850 256MB or NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater (Windows Vista: Radeon X1550 256 MB or NVidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB)
  • DirectX®: DirectX (November 2007)
  • Hard Drive: 20 GB HD space
  • Sound: Direct X Compatible Sound Card

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Sept. 2025
remaster when remaster whennnnnn REMASTER WHENNNNNNNN REMASTERRRRRRRRRRRRWHENNNNNNNNNNN Only played this game 2 years ago and I’m already missing it. Every time I see a similar game I think of DAO I think of all the companions and adventures I had in it Nothing can surpass this game in my mind, not even bg3 This is the GOAT but if you are going to play this today, be sure to look up and install all the necessary mods first. that will improve your experience greatly
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Dec. 2024
This is the REAl dragon age experience, only problem was a simple fix. A patch from nexus mods is required to play past the prologue without lots of crashing.
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Nov. 2024
Back when games were made out of passion, not a product. we were gifted with gems like this. DA:O stands as one of the last true BioWare masterpieces, created before the departure of magician developers. This is a game of consequences, particularly when it comes to assembling your party. You can easily miss out on characters like Sten and Leliana if you're rushing or make a mistake. This design encourages players to explore thoroughly, rather than just sticking to the main quest. I recall playing this game in 2011 and realizing too late that I had missed these characters, with no way to recruit them afterward. It wasn’t about a scenic open world. It was the deeper elements, the music and the feel of the whole setting. Many comments talk about how these aspects made you feel like it was you and your team against the world and desperate odds, and they’re right. Is it happiness? Is it pain? What is this feeling? This is a game that matures with you as you progress. They don't make them like they used to.
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Nov. 2024
This game was kind of my companion during serious depression when I was a teen. Put close to 1k hours in it back when it came out on the Xbox. Every couple years or so, I'd replay it for nostalgia reasons. I bought this Steam version way back in 2018, I believe. I recently started playing it again, but never bothered to post a review before, so here are my thoughts: It's quite broken, like, literally. So many annoying bugs that were never fixed, though some can be bypassed with community patches and mods. Story is good, gameplay is mid and very repetitive but still enjoyable, balancing is pretty wack, dialog is mostly excellent, a lot of quests in need of serious rework, performance is absolutely terrible. I play in 3840x2160 with the HD Remaster mod, and obviously maxed settings. I have a PC with an i7-13700K, RTX 4080, 32GB DDR5 RAM and a 7000 MB/s SSD. And it can't hold a stable framerate, lol. I even got dips to like 35 FPS or lower in some scenarios, in particular with auras. Loading times are surprisingly (and annoyingly) long still. Yeah... game performance is inexcusably bad. I still recommend it - despite all the heachaches it may give you from time to time - because it's a game that you just have to have experienced at least once. The characters and the world building are wonderful, despite some shortcomings. Here's a couple things you want to keep in mind before you start playing this on modern PCs: - Google "Dragon Age Origins 4GB Patch" and install that right away - The game may still crash when loading certain saves or during certain fights, i.e. Denerim - Go to Nexusmods and download these mods - Either download Process Lasso or find a way to restrict the CPU resources - When you are transitioning areas, re-cast all buffs and auras - Save and reload often, and make sure to always have a more recent save available - Do this if you are missing the DLC stuff - Saves are stored locally, just FYI. Steam Cloud does not automatically store your character saves To fix the Denerim crashing problem, turn down all the graphics settings to LOW before you load your Denerim save. This has worked for me. The 4GB patch doesn't prevent crashing. Some fights, won't spoil which, have so many effects going on that the game apparently can't handle. If you still crash after turning graphics to low, also disable Frame Buffer Effects and turn on V-Sync. This got me through a certain fight where it would always crash when the boss would transition into phase 2. - Download the "Dragon Age Origins Unofficial Remaster" mod - Download the "More Hairstyles" mod - Download the "Character Respecialization" mod (*) - Download the "Expanded Inventory" mod - Download the "Faster Movement in AND out of Combat" mod - Download the "Qwinn's Ultimate DAO Fixpack v3.52" mod - Download the "Dain's Fixes" mod (**) - Download the "FtG UI Mod - More Readable Fonts and UI" mod - Download the "CharGenMorph Compiler" mod - Download the "Awakening Silverite Mines Bugfix" mod - Download the "Lock Bash" mod Trust me on this. It will play much better with these mods. (*) Careful with this one. If you respec a character that has a specialization, you can't spec into it again until you unlocked it. (**) Use CORE + TWEAKS + BUG FIXES files. Rest is up to you. I.e. Task Manager -> Eco Mode. Kinda funny how this 2009 game can make my CPU pull ~170W if I don't do this, lol. I should mention that I have my FPS globally capped to 117 and I'm using NVCP V-Sync with FreeSync to avoid tearing on my 4k120Hz OLED TV. That CPU power draw stems from the game somehow using all of my cores, not from crazy high FPS. This only applies when you get the Party Select screen. If you switch out companions, your buffs will not apply even if already enabled. You have to re-cast them all. This also applies to you, so turn them off and on again. Best to check your character screen (C) every now and then to make sure. Download the "Spell Miasma Sustained" mod if you want to use that particular aura. This is because it can happen to soft-lock yourself with a corrupted save. The game also has some weird bugs where performance may degrade over time, so simply reload your last save and it should work fine again for a while. Go to your Steam folder at: steam/steamapps/common/dragon age ultimate edition/redist and run the following .EXEs: - DAOUserviceSetup_Steam.exe - DAOU_UpdateAddinsXML_Steam.exe This will add all the DLCs from this edition.
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Nov. 2024
One of those games where you travel to camp and just sit there, listening to the ambient music. And while your companions visually stand there, their dialogue and stories while you talk to them at camp sell the game itself. Leliana's adventures as a bard. Morrigan's tales of the wild lands, her mother and her philosophies on mages. Alistair's time at the Chantry, and the secrets of his family. Sten's customs and stone-like demeanour as he struggles to explain his unique and almost unknown culture. Zevran's free spirit cultivated in Antiva. Wynne's wisdom and morality - almost a total opposite to Morrigan in philosophy. Shale's unique position as a golem with no memory of who she was. Unearthing her history and origins as you converse and travel with her more and more. Oghren, the drunk. The comic relief. The warrior at heart. All of this, while that music hums like a lullaby. Music that fills you with sadness. Hope? Questioning whether or not the quest you set out on can even be done. And that is what I think is missing from most of the recent releases into the Dragon Age franchise. That dark, gritty, bleak tone that is tempered by moments of comedy and even joy. This game was peak BioWare. And one of the best gaming RPG's to date.
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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition received 24,599 positive votes out of a total of 28,412 achieving a rating of 8.49.
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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition was developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is not playable on MacOS.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is not playable on Linux.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is a single-player game.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition does not currently offer any DLC.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition PEGI 18
Rating
8.5
24,599
3,813
Game modes
Features
Online players
355
Developer
BioWare
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Release 26 Oct 2010
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