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Dungeons & Dragons co-op multiplayer game on the way from Payday devsRolling out in (d)2026
Rolling out in (d)2026
Image credit:Starbreeze
Image credit:Starbreeze
Paydaydevs Starbreeze are working on aco-op multiplayer gamebased on storied tabletop RPGDungeons & Dragons. It’ll be out in 2026, and Starbreeze are being upfront with the fact it’ll be a games-as-a-service-type game.
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The untitled Dungeons & Dragons video game, which is currently codenamed Project Baxter within the studio - which some reason reminded me of the sort of cutesy nickname you’d give a grey old dog, like Major Muffins - will be set in the world of the hugely influential fantasy TRPG, which marks its 50th anniversary next year. While D&D can technically be played in any setting that players want, its official universe is the Forgotten Realms - familiar from the likes ofBaldur’s Gate 3and this year’sfar-better-than-expected D&D movie Honor Among Thieves.
We are excited to unveil Dungeons & Dragons® as the IP for our next game, codename ”Project Baxter”. A co-operative multiplayer title to be released on all major platforms in 2026!Read more here:https://t.co/JROgMApCzlpic.twitter.com/2SIOUZycyV— Starbreeze Entertainment (@StarbreezeAB)December 4, 2023
We are excited to unveil Dungeons & Dragons® as the IP for our next game, codename ”Project Baxter”. A co-operative multiplayer title to be released on all major platforms in 2026!Read more here:https://t.co/JROgMApCzlpic.twitter.com/2SIOUZycyV
Otherwise, we know that Starbreeze will be both developer and publisher for the game, which is due to release sometime in 2026 on “all major platforms” - so that’ll be a yes to PC. It’ll play nice with consoles, though, thanks to confirmed cross-play support. And those Dungeons And/Or Dragons will probably look fairly nice, being built on Unreal Engine 5.
Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögrenaddedthat “development of the game is in full swing”, describing it as “an amazing Dungeons & Dragons action-adventure”. Sjögren also compared the apparently shared roots of D&D and Starbreeze in “cooperative and community driven experiences, ‘play it your way’ and infinite replayability”, which might give some idea of what to expect.
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A bit of extremely grainy teaser art shows some kind of wizard/sorcerer character wielding a staff, along with a fairly generic shot of a fantasy town, and… that’s about all we know for now.
Next year sees the revision of D&D with itstabletop follow-up to the enormously adopted Fifth Edition, which has powered everything from hit series Critical Role to Baldur’s Gate 3’s maths, and will accompany afully-featured virtual tabletopalso made in UE5. With the pen-and-paper RPG pushing ever further into the digital world between that VTT, Baldur’s Gate 3 and now this, no doubt expect more D&D to venture its way into video games soon enough. I hear that Baldur’s Gate game did pretty alright for itself.
