Decision Video games has revealed a debut gameplay trailer for Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, and confirmed a late 2025 launch window and launch platforms.
Decision Video games, greatest identified for digital fantasy tabletop journey Demeo, is working with Wizards of the Coast on the primary digital actuality recreation set within the Dungeons & Dragons universe, referred to as Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. It’s due out on PC through Steam, and PlayStation 5, with a VR model obtainable on PlayStation VR2, Steam VR, and Meta Quest 3.
Battlemarked adapts D&D courses, actions, and lore to Decision Video games’ Demeo motion role-playing system, which is DM-less and focuses on social technique quite than social roleplay. This, Decision Video games stated, encourages group tabletalk centered on techniques and decision-making.
“Whereas the world of Demeo is wealthy with lore, our earlier titles focus totally on tactical motion over motivation and narrative,” stated Tommy Palm, founder and CEO of Decision Video games.
Decision Video games is working with story designer Matt Sernett because the mission’s narrative lead. Sernett beforehand labored as a designer of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop recreation and contributed to Dungeons & Dragons video video games together with Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate 2, and Icewind Dale.
“When Dungeons & Dragons launched fifth version again in 2014, the primary journey that many gamers went on ventured into Neverwinter Wooden, and I can consider no place higher for Battlemarked gamers to start their journey,” stated Sernett.
“The primary journey in Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked will take gamers to acquainted places together with Cragmaw Fortress and Mount Hotenow. The world of D&D is simply as a lot part of the story as its characters, and we are able to’t look ahead to gamers to immerse themselves in its risks and delights.”
Battlemarked’s second journey, which might be included at launch, might be revealed later this 12 months.
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