Hasbro Confirms New Unannounced Dungeons & Dragons Video Game in Development

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks has confirmed that an in-house studio is developing an unannounced Dungeons & Dragons video game. In a feature posted today on Bloomberg News, Cocks stated that Hasbro was actively developing a Dungeons & Dragons video game via one of its in-house studios. No further details were provided about the video game, nor was any timeline given about its release. Hasbro plans to release one to two video games a year by 2026, not including third party licensed games.

Hasbro is actively pivoting into a video game developer, having purchased or created several in-house studios in recent years. One of the most high-profile ventures is Exodus, a sci-fi RPG created by several BioWare veterans. A GI Joe video game focused on Snake-Eyes is also in development at a Hasbro-owned studio.

Hasbro is also actively working with several third party studios on new D&D video games. Gameloft, the maker of Disney Dreamlight Valley, is making a survival-life sim set in the Forgotten Realms, while Starbreeze Entertainment is also actively working on a D&D video game. Hasbro also cancelled several video game projects, including several Dungeons & Dragons-themed games back in 2023 as part of a strategic realignment.

 

[Seramus]

Hotter take: Icewind Dale 3.

This is my vote. BG3 is still massively popular and a bad BG4 might blow up in their face. MUCH safer to do Icewind Dale 3 to capitalize on nostalgia and BG3 momentum, but also able to wave it off if the game does poorly.

 

[Parmandur]

This is my vote. BG3 is still massively popular and a bad BG4 might blow up in their face. MUCH safer to do Icewind Dale 3 to capitalize on nostalgia and BG3 momentum, but also able to wave it off if the game does poorly.

It also allows them to go a slightly more beer and pretzels, combat heavy direction.

 

[Koloth]

I hope it works out but their past record of Hasbro/WOTC internal developed stuff doesn't encourage a high degree of confidence.

 

[Xeviat]

I really hope they go the simple route:

Dungeons and Dragons: Tactics

• Single player, multiplayer, and asymmetric DM/players play styles
• Mini scenarios leading to a big boss fights
• System can be used for running D&D games

This would be a great way to let people play solo when they're between sessions, and an easy way to get new players to jump in.

But, my dream would have been for project Sigil to be this.

 

[Minigiant]

C'Mon D&D 4x strategy game.

I wanna raze Orc Alexander the Great's cities with Goliath Abe Lincoln.

 

[aco175]

Here's to hoping.

I would also just but a plug-in for the TV with 4 controllers.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Here's to hoping.

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I would also just but a plug-in for the TV with 4 controllers.

"Warrior needs food badly!"

 

[Demetrios1453]

It also allows them to go a slightly more beer and pretzels, combat heavy direction.

Also, the different environment can set it apart from BG3. And will allow for a Drizzt cameo!

 

[Parmandur]

Also, the different environment can set it apart from BG3. And will allow for a Drizzt cameo!

I wouldn't be shocked if the new game in question is coming from the studio that did Dark Alliance a few years back, actually.

 

[Bohandas]

I mean, I think it may well be, but that they're working on it with an internal studio, no members of which they have announced, with no timeline, nothing is not um, great.

This is a bit of a placeholder of a claim from Cocks until some details emerge as to what they're actually doing.

What's going to be very funny is if WotC try and do a BG game, but also try and keep it PG or PG-13, and then try and get that past the kind of audience that likes CRPGs, because that will be a spectacular car-crash. Failure seems to inadequate a word.

Of course it's also totally possible it's yet another extremely ill-advised D&D-themed but not-an-RPG game like that dire one with Drizzt in it (the name of which escapes me).

Or like that weird Dragonshard game that came out shortly after Eberron first dropped