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Dragon Age Games in Order
BioWare's Dragon Age is four connected RPGs set in the world of Thedas, where your choices echo across games. Release order is story order: Origins, II, Inquisition, then The Veilguard.
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Why this order?
Dragon Age is BioWare's flagship fantasy RPG series, set in the war-torn world of Thedas. Across four mainline games the studio tells one connected, slow-burning saga about mages and templars, the Grey Wardens, and an ancient elven conspiracy that finally comes to a head decades later. Because the story is told chronologically as it was released, the single best way to play is simply release order.
Release order and story order are the same here: Dragon Age: Origins (2009), Dragon Age II (2011), Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014), and Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024). Each game jumps to new heroes and new corners of Thedas, so you are not stuck replaying the same protagonist. Origins is a dark, classic party-based RPG; Dragon Age II is a tighter, character-driven story set in a single city; Inquisition opens up into a sprawling open world; and The Veilguard pays off threads that have been building since the very first game.
The key gotcha is continuity. Each game is fairly self-contained and playable on its own, but the lore, returning characters, and cameos land much harder in sequence. For years BioWare offered the Dragon Age Keep, a web tool that let you set the world-state decisions you made in earlier games so they would carry into the next; The Veilguard instead lets you re-create a handful of key choices at the start. Playing in order means those callbacks feel earned rather than confusing.
If you enjoy this kind of choice-driven RPG saga, BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy is the obvious companion series, and games like The Witcher 3 and Baldur's Gate 3 scratch a similar party-and-consequences itch. But Dragon Age is its own decades-long story, and release order is how it was meant to unfold.
Timeline 2009–2024
Every entry plotted by release year — see the gaps, clusters and revivals at a glance.
Where to play it today
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Frequently asked questions
How many Dragon Age games are there?
There are four mainline Dragon Age games: Origins (2009), Dragon Age II (2011), Inquisition (2014), and The Veilguard (2024). There have also been expansions, DLC, and tie-in media, but those four are the core single-player RPGs.
What order should I watch Dragon Age in?
Play (rather than watch) in release order, which is also story order: Dragon Age: Origins, then Dragon Age II, then Dragon Age: Inquisition, then Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The games were released chronologically within the world of Thedas.
Do I need to play the Dragon Age games in order?
You don't strictly have to. Each game is fairly self-contained and stars a new protagonist, so any one works as an entry point. But the lore, returning characters, and cameos reward playing in sequence, especially heading into The Veilguard.
What was the Dragon Age Keep?
The Dragon Age Keep was a BioWare web tool that tracked the world-state decisions you made in earlier games so they could carry forward into the next title. The Veilguard instead lets you set a handful of key past choices at the start of the game.
Is each Dragon Age game a standalone story?
Mostly, yes. Origins, Dragon Age II, Inquisition, and The Veilguard each follow a different hero and a complete arc, so you can finish one without cliffhangers. The overarching Thedas storyline still builds across all four.
Where can I play the Dragon Age games?
All four games are available on PC via Steam and the EA app, and the more recent titles are on PlayStation and Xbox. Inquisition and The Veilguard are also commonly included with EA Play subscriptions.
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