Gameloft, the corporate behind Disney video games Dreamlight Valley and Speedstorm, has introduced that it’s engaged on a Dungeons & Dragons life-sim RPG that can be set within the Forgotten Realms, the identical universe through which Baldur’s Gate III (and plenty of different D&D adventures) happen.
Final 12 months, Baldur’s Gate III turned one of many largest video games on the planet due to its improbable writing, intense fight and, let’s be trustworthy, all of the horny stuff you may do in it. Of us turned enamored with the sport’s characters and relationships, with tons of fan fiction and paintings pouring out of Baldur’s Gate III’s neighborhood ever since. It additionally didn’t harm that in recent times, Dungeons & Dragons-–a long-running tabletop RPG franchise—has turn into larger than ever due to fashionable web exhibits that use the sport as a basis for comedy and storytelling. So, it’s not surprising to see that one other online game firm is partnering with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast—the businesses who personal D&D—to create a brand new online game set in the identical fictional universe as BG3.
On March 14, Gameloft announced that it was partnering with Wizards of the Coast to publish a brand new D&D sport on consoles and PC. Particularly, it’s being developed by Gameloft Montreal, the identical of us who labored on Disney Dreamlight Valley and Star Wars: Castaways. This upcoming, still-untitled sport will characteristic “distinctive cooperative gameplay.” Gameloft says it is going to be a “hybrid” of survival, life sims, and motion RPGs. That feels like, if completed effectively, it may very well be precisely the sort of factor Baldur’s Gate III followers would love.
“Gamers can count on an journey the place the wealthy lore of this legendary franchise meets real-time survival in a singular marketing campaign of resilience, camaraderie, and hazard at almost each flip,” tweeted Gameloft, “Keep tuned!”
As can be fairly widespread lately for sport bulletins, Gameloft ended its tease with a hyperlink to its obtainable jobs. So in case you’ve at all times needed to assist create an enormous D&D life-sim RPG for consoles and PC, right here’s your probability.
Past these fundamental particulars, Gameloft didn’t have the rest to share past one idea picture—the identical picture on the high of this text. No launch date was supplied, both. I feel this is likely to be a number of years away, so don’t get too excited. For now, you possibly can simply replay Baldur’s Gate III once more. Once more.
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