New D&D Video Game Announced

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New video game developer Giant Skull is developing a new D&D video game. Variety announced the new untitled game today, which will be a single-player action-adventure game set in one of the worlds of the game.

Giant Skull was founded by Stig Asmussen in 2023. Asmussen previously was the game director of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, as well as God of War 3.

“Stig and the team at Giant Skull are exactly the type of exceptionally talented creators we want to work with, and I’m so happy to be reuniting with him on this new project,” Wizards of the Coast chief and digital gaming president at Hasbro John Hight told Variety. “In our time working together on ‘God of War I’ got to see firsthand Stig’s artistry and expertise, and he and the Giant Skull team are the perfect fit for our new game. Worldbuilding and storytelling is in our DNA, and this collaboration reflects our evolution and commitment to our ‘Playing to Win’ strategy, building a stronger presence in digital play. We look forward to revealing more about this brand-new ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ game in the future.”
 

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If I was making the game, I would lean in to the Jedi Survivor playstyle. Make a defined protagonist who's a bladesinger, or some other existing gish variant (hexblade?). Lean into the D&D brand identity with spells and findable items, and set it on either Faerun, Eberron, or Planescape. Sharn and Sigil both seem like wildly gameable action-RPG settings.
 

If I was making the game, I would lean in to the Jedi Survivor playstyle. Make a defined protagonist who's a bladesinger, or some other existing gish variant (hexblade?). Lean into the D&D brand identity with spells and findable items, and set it on either Faerun, Eberron, or Planescape. Sharn and Sigil both seem like wildly gameable action-RPG settings.
I would be ecstatic if it were set in Eberron. That setting is criminally underused.
 



A D&D dating sim should be in Stryxhaven, because wizardry academies are a trope of otome videogames.

I don't reject the idea of a future videogame whose main character is Driztt. I guess it would be before the reincarnation of his human friends.

Other option could be a game where MC was Driztt's daughter or son.
 




Eye of the Beholder...? The Xanathar has been big in 5E books and marketing for years.
Eye of the Beholder was not an action game, and it was party based.

Really, there is no point in trying to make this game a sequel to some ancient game. If they want Xanathar the can include Xanathar, without calling the game Eye of the Beholder 4 (or whatever number we happen to be up to now).
 

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