Beating an RPG with a large, open-world like Dragon Age: Inquisition can be a bittersweet experience. After spending hours with the characters, getting to know them and grow close to them, suddenly, the game ends, and things change. Whether players are completionists who cannot stand to have any of the side fetch quests still standing at the end or who just is not done with the Inquisition's adventures and the relationships between members of the party, simply beating the game may not always satisfy. While players wait for Dragon Age 4, there are plenty of things to do upon beating Inquisition.

The open-world in Dragon Age: Inquisition is massive and sometimes overwhelming. It is filled with side quests and hidden Easter eggs for players to find, and, for those who don't manage to explore everything before the final fight with Corypheus, the game allows players to continue even after credits, whether or not they have the DLC installed. Here are some of the best things to do after beating Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Best Things to Do After Beating Dragon Age: Inquisition

Dragon Age: Inquisition Companions at the table

With so much to do in Dragon Age: Inquisition, players can often find plenty to occupy them at the end of the game, whether they choose to start again as a new character or finish every quest in their current game. Here are five possible ways to continue after the credits roll.

Install Mods

Mods can extend the shelf life of most games, and Dragon Age: Inquisition is no different. Players can install mods for nearly everything, and some of them will significantly change aspects of the gaming experience. Some of the highest-rated Dragon Age: Inquisition mods on Nexus Mods include War Table - No Waiting by Tahira, which prevents players from having to wait a certain amount of time to finish missions at the War table, More Banter by jerrybullet, which makes party banter trigger more frequently, MoreLoot - Remade by tirnoney, which allows players to control the kind, frequency, and quality of loot drops, and Party at the Winter Palace by sapphim which allows players to experience an Inquisition road trip with all companions during Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts.

There are hundreds of mods available from the community that can keep players coming back to the game over and over for a new experience.

Play the DLC

There are three full DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Players who have finished the main story may be interested in these. In The Descent, the party travels to the Deep Roads and Orzammar to deal with strange earthquakes coming from the Lyrium mines and possibly face an Old God. In Jaws of Hakkon, players get to explore another area of the open world and meet the Avaar while on a quest to find out what happened to the first Inquisition. In both of these DLC, there is new loot and Tier 4 crafting materials for players to find, challenging fights, side quests, and lore. Both of these DLC can be started prior to the end of the game and completed either before or after the endgame fight with Corypheus.

If players have not done so already, they should also experience Trespasserafter beating the game. Taking place two years after the events of the main story, this DLC serves as the true end and epilogue to Inquisition. It recontextualizes the game and sets things up for Dragon Age 4.

Make Different Choices

Dragon Age Inquisition Red Lyrium.

Players who have finished the game can choose to start a new playthrough, this time choosing to make a new set of decisions as the Inquisitor. Players can do some of the following:

  • Play as a different race, gender, and class
  • Choose a different Inquisitor specialization
  • Take the opposing side in the Mage-Templar conflict
  • Romance a different character
  • Make different dialogue choices
  • Choose the opposite outcome on companion quests
  • Do a completionist run

This way, the game stays fresh and players get to experience something different.

Collect Remaining Items and Loot

There are likely plenty of collections and items the player will not be able to complete prior to the endgame. In the Collections section of the Quest journal, players can see how many more tiles they need to find to complete mosaics. They can seek out all the regions and landmarks in each map location. They can find the Astrariums and seek the shards in the Ocularums in each different area. They can also try to complete the Bottles of Thedas collection. All completed collections will result in Power and Influence for the Inquisition.

Players can also find more loot and crafting materials. Using the Golden Nug statue, players can auto-sync their collectible items, like tonic recipes and armor and weapons schematics, between games. It is a good idea to find as many items as possible so they can be immediately synced in the next playthrough, making it easier to get better equipment sooner the next time.

Turn on Trials

Either on a new playthrough or upon beating the game, players can customize their difficulty settings beyond the typical Casual, Normal, Hard, and Nightmare. Players can select a base mode and then turn on Trials. These are special challenges that can increase the difficulty of the game in new ways and create a new roleplaying experience.

Popular Trials include Take it Slow, which awards half the usual XP to the player to prevent them from becoming too overpowered, Even Ground, which makes all enemies scale to at least the Inquisitor's skill level and allows all enemies to drop Loot again, Rub Some Dirt On It, which eliminates supply caches during main missions, and Grizzly End, which makes bears even more difficult to fight. All Trials can increase the chance of special shipments arriving to the Inquisition's base to different degrees, and many have an associated achievement for completing the game with them on.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition is available for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.