With Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian now off doing their very own factor and making multiple games that aren’t Baldur’s Gate 4, BG IP homeowners Wizards of the Coast have simply revealed one thing that may assist fill that void. They’ve agreed to a publishing deal that’ll see comparatively new studio Big Cranium create a brand new recreation set within the D&D universe.
Giant Skull have been based by Stig Asmussen, director of stuff like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and God of Struggle 3, again in March 2024, and stated means again then that it would be aiming to make “gameplay-driven, story-immersed action-adventure video games”.
Effectively, they get factors for sticking to that purpose to date. This WotC-published recreation they’re engaged on (thanks, Gematsu) is an “all-new, single-player action adventure title set on this planet of Dungeons & Dragons” that’ll be coming to console and PC in some unspecified time in the future between now and the top of time.
“Our gifted and skilled workforce at Big Cranium is constructed on creativity and curiosity,” Asmussen stated in a press launch, “Our purpose is to craft a wealthy new Dungeons & Dragons universe crammed with immersive storytelling, heroic fight and exhilarating traversal that gamers will absolutely embrace.”
“In our time working collectively on God of Struggle I acquired to see firsthand Stig’s artistry and experience, and he and the Big Cranium workforce are the right match for our new recreation,” added Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro digital gaming president John Hight, “Worldbuilding and storytelling is in our DNA, and this collaboration displays our evolution and dedication to our Taking part in to Win Technique, constructing a stronger presence in digital play. We look ahead to revealing extra about this brand-new Dungeons & Dragons recreation sooner or later.”
So, concrete particulars in regards to the recreation and what it will find yourself wanting like are fairly scarce proper now – as you’d anticipate for a factor that is solely simply tied the publishing knot. There is not any indication of the way it could or might not be tied to the BG video games we have already gotten, or whether or not any of the characters BG3 famously impressed Struggle and Peace-length fanfictions about will star in it.
Given the very fact it hasn’t been declared an RPG, it may effectively prove to have little or no in frequent with BG3, apart from the apparent D&D connection. We’ll simply have to attend, ponder our orbs like these coastal wizards, and see.
