Baldur's Gate 3 is the more polished and more accessible game; Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the more chaotic sandbox. BG3 has better writing, full performance capture and D&D 5e rules. Original Sin 2's elemental surfaces and armour system make combat a physics puzzle BG3 deliberately toned down.
Same studio, same turn-based tactical combat, same refusal to close off a route because you thought of it and they did not.
It teaches the rules, the companions are the best-written in the genre, and it is far more forgiving about builds. Six hundred hours of content and it never feels like homework.
Ice, oil, poison, electricity — the surfaces interact and the fights become improvisation. The armour system makes crowd control feel deterministic in a way some players prefer.
Baldur's Gate 3 is the more polished and more accessible game; Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the more chaotic sandbox. BG3 has better writing, full performance capture and D&D 5e rules. Original Sin 2's elemental surfaces and armour system make combat a physics puzzle BG3 deliberately toned down.
Better is the wrong question for these two — they are close enough that the answer depends on what you want from the next twenty hours. Pick Baldur's Gate 3 if this is your first CRPG. Pick Divinity: Original Sin 2 if you want combat as a chemistry set.
No. There are no scores anywhere on this page. This is a written opinion about what each game is for, so you can judge whether it matches what you are after.