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Recommended Dragon Age play order
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Dragon Age II
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
These are the four main games EA lists on its official Dragon Age franchise page. Starting with Origins gives you the earliest introduction among these games to the setting and its conflicts; continuing in release order lets you encounter later developments and returning references as the series presents them.
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Why release order works better than strict chronology
The first two games do not fit neatly into a simple, one-after-the-other timeline. BioWare’s story recap describes Origins and Dragon Age II as sharing a universe, with their events overlapping around the Fifth Blight. It also says Dragon Age II spans ten years and includes events during and after that period.
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That overlap makes release order the clearest recommendation for a newcomer: play each game as it was introduced rather than trying to interleave parts of two stories. The official recap supports the overlap, but does not provide a complete event-by-event chronology for all four games, so a more exact chronological sequence would imply precision the available account does not establish.
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Can you start with Inquisition?
Yes. If you want to try one game before committing to the series, Dragon Age: Inquisition is a possible starting point. BioWare describes it as a choice-driven role-playing game in its games catalog. That description does not establish that it is the easiest entry for every new player, and starting there means meeting the series out of release order.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the fourth game in EA’s listed sequence. EA and BioWare announced its worldwide launch for October 31, 2024, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, the EA app, and the Epic Games Store. Those are the announced launch date and platforms, not a guarantee of current store availability in every region. See EA’s launch announcement.
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