Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios

The game will be released in 2027.
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Invoke Studios, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, has announced Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock, a new video game due out for 2027. The game features a new character named Kaati, played by Tricia Helfer, and will be a third-person action-adventure game. Players will use spellcraft to "solve challenges and take down monsters" with players having some freedom in how they solve problems.

"We're not trying to simulate the tabletop RPG experience, so there is no dice-rolling in the game — we're trying to really deliver a video-game experience first," said Dominic Guay, studio lead at Invoke Studios, in an interview with IGN. "If you are not familiar with Dungeons and Dragons, you are not going to feel friction, like in that you're missing details of the world. But if you are a fan of the universe, you are going to be really excited about what we are doing with the lore of the series for Warlock."

Invoke Studios was previously called Tuque Games, and made the much-derided Dark Alliance game in 2021.

Gameplay will be revealed in 2026, with a planned release for 2027.

 

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer




Past performance doesn't always shackle future achievement. More experience, more time, more budget... game studios can definitely outdo prior works. But still, after Dark Alliance this is absolutely going on my "Wait for the reviews" list. No pre-orders here.
Yeah, they hired a lot of new people, and have 6 years to make the game. Certainly not impossible they could have cooked something worthwhile with time, talent, and money.
 


Past performance doesn't always shackle future achievement. More experience, more time, more budget... game studios can definitely outdo prior works. But still, after Dark Alliance this is absolutely going on my "Wait for the reviews" list. No pre-orders here.

But they're a triple A studio according to some here.
 


That is not the bear I'd be poking, personally, but this does sound interesting.
The issue with this is, if you don't have D&D mechanics, how do you make the game D&D? Really, you can only do it through lore, and even that is woolly.

But on the whole, nothing I'm hearing about this game fills me with confidence. And the trend in industry appears to be going in the opposite direction.
 

The issue with this is, if you don't have D&D mechanics, how do you make the game D&D? Really, you can only do it through lore, and even that is woolly.

But on the whole, nothing I'm hearing about this game fills me with confidence. And the trend in industry appears to be going in the opposite direction.

The old Baldurs Gate Dark alliance games were good. Weren't D&D.
 

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