11 Great Games You Probably Forgot Were Once Early Access

Divinity: Original Sin

Divinity: Original Sin was financed through Kickstarter by a lot of fans who craved the return of the isometric RPG. The project raised over one million dollars by Apr. 2013 and set a release date for early 2014. The game turned out to be more ambitious than its developers had anticipated. It entered early access in January of 2014, but only stayed in the program for several months, finally releasing in June of 2014.

It was worth the wait, though, resulting in an RPG that harkened back to classics like Baldur’s Gate. The time in early access was brief but let it the developers ensure that the game was everything that its backers had waited for. And it paid off, resulting in a second successful Kickstarter campaign for the sequel.