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Whereas Baldur’s Gate 3 arrived in 2023 as seemingly the proper Dungeons & Dragons adaptation from tabletop to online game, its predecessor Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is being shut down and faraway from storefronts simply three years after it launched.
The sport’s Steam web page was up to date to announce servers will likely be taken offline and the sport faraway from sale on February 24, 2025.
“We will likely be shutting down the Dark Alliance servers on February 24, 2025 and it’ll not be accessible to buy beginning that day,” reads the notice from developer Invoke Studios. “The bottom sport and all DLC are nonetheless accessible to play in offline single-player by anybody who at present owns it.”
Dark Alliance launched on June 22, 2021 as a promised “thrilling, action-driven, hack-and-slash journey stuffed with iconic monsters, legendary characters, and epic loot,” however was acquired poorly by gamers and critics.
“Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a tedious co-op journey with numerous goblins and much more bugs,” IGN stated in our 4/10 evaluation, and the sport sits at a “blended” score on Steam with solely 50% of critiques being constructive.
Invoke Studios, which was referred to as Tuque Video games on the time however later rebranded, is now engaged on one other entry within the D&D franchise. Particulars are nonetheless slim, however writer Wizards of the Coast confirmed it as an Unreal Engine 5 title and stated will probably be “a triple-A sport derived from the Dungeons & Dragons universe.”
Wizards of the Coast is all in on D&D video video games in the mean time, seemingly as a result of astounding success of Baldur’s Gate 3, as 5 video games are at present in growth.
Alongside Invoke Studios’ new sport comes a D&D survival role-playing sport life simulator from the Disney Dreamlight Valley developer, a digital actuality sport from the creators of Demeo, a co-op sport from Payday 3 developer Starbreeze, and a mysterious entry from Hasbro.
Baldur’s Gate 3 arrived in July 2023 and have become the shock hit of the 12 months, with gamers obsessing over its seemingly infinite variety of playstyles and story outcomes. It was extremely profitable commercially, pulling in $90 million for Hasbro and much more for developer Larian. One way or the other, it is extra widespread this 12 months than final.
In our 10/10 evaluation, IGN stated: “With crunchy, tactical RPG fight, a memorable story with complicated characters, extremely polished cinematic presentation, and a world that at all times rewards exploration and creativity, Baldur’s Gate 3 is the brand new high-water mark for CRPGs.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.