Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios

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.

 

[Charlaquin]

When people yell about Veilguard, I have to wonder how many Dragon Age games they have played. Each one is significantly different.

Veilguard also wasn’t even a bad game. It had the unfortunate problem of its writing being its weakest point, coming from a series whose only unifying feature up to that point had been excellent writing. But it was visually stunning, ran smooth as silk, and had pretty fun action-adventure gameplay. And even the mediocre writing had moments of greatness. The overall product was less than the sum of its parts, but man, it had damn good parts, and from what’s publicly known about its development cycle, it’s a small miracle the game ended up as good as it is.

 

[plecostomus]

Friends and I got irrationally excited about this because of a great book that came out this year called The Raven Scholar. Just a bunch of people saying MAGNIFICENT over and over again.

 

[Charlaquin]

And significantly worse than the previous.

People who say this come across like people who think Pokemon peaked in Gen 1. Or, perhaps more salient to this forum, people who think D&D peaked in Basic.

Every Dragon Age game, even Veilguard, has a significant contingent of people for whom it’s their favorite in the series, though that contingent is probably smallest for Veilguard and second-smallest for DA2. As previously established, the games are so significantly different from each other that comparing between any two of them except Origins to DA2 is always going to be apples to oranges. And even Origins to 2 is like… Fujis to Granny Smiths.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

When was the last time Tool mattered. Trailers fine imho.

I actually do like their song 46 & 2 that they used for the trailer, but I didn't like how the song was cut up for the trailer.

 

[SkidAce]

When was the last time Tool mattered. Trailers fine imho.

Yesterday.

And probably again in a week or so after i get tired of Sleep Theory.

 

[SkidAce]

Would you prefer an effeminate albino man being controlled by his sword? ;-)

nice reference!

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Anyways it sounds like it's a 3rd person action game/shooter that's probably using the Unreal Game Engine. There's probably build options like Hexblade or just using Eldritch Blast. Maybe Patron is a choice and possibly one that's plot relevant.

 

[Reynard]

Yesterday.

And probably again in a week or so after i get tired of Sleep Theory.

Aside: Brass Against's Tool covers are AMAZING.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Weren't a bunch of the people they hired people who got fired from bioware for ruining dragonage?

The people who ruined dragon age are, by and large, still at EA. Dragon age was ruined by production decisions made by studio heads who kept on rebooting the fourth game in the series to chase trends.

 

[CleverNickName]

WotC: Hey, we're making a video game. We hope you enjoy it.

Me: Woo, video games!

The rest of the subreddit: This is probably going to be a terrible failure, I hate it already.