While Baldur’s Gate 3 arrived in 2023 as seemingly the right Dungeons & Dragons adaptation from tabletop to online game, its predecessor Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is being shut down and faraway from storefronts simply three years after it launched.
The recreation’s Steam web page was up to date to announce servers might be taken offline and the sport faraway from sale on February 24, 2025.
“We might be shutting down the Dark Alliance servers on February 24, 2025 and it’ll not be accessible to buy beginning that day,” reads the notice from developer Invoke Studios. “The base recreation and all DLC are nonetheless accessible to play in offline single-player by anybody who presently owns it.”
Dark Alliance launched on June 22, 2021 as a promised “thrilling, action-driven, hack-and-slash journey stuffed with iconic monsters, legendary characters, and epic loot,” however was acquired poorly by gamers and critics.
“Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a tedious co-op journey with plenty of goblins and much more bugs,” IGN mentioned in our 4/10 overview, and the sport sits at a “combined” score on Steam with solely 50% of critiques being optimistic.
Invoke Studios, which was generally known as Tuque Games on the time however later rebranded, is now engaged on one other entry within the D&D franchise. Details are nonetheless slim, however writer Wizards of the Coast confirmed it as an Unreal Engine 5 title and mentioned will probably be “a triple-A recreation derived from the Dungeons & Dragons universe.”
Wizards of the Coast is all in on D&D video video games in the meanwhile, possible because of the astounding success of Baldur’s Gate 3, as 5 video games are presently in improvement.
Alongside Invoke Studios’ new recreation comes a D&D survival role-playing recreation life simulator from the Disney Dreamlight Valley developer, a digital actuality recreation from the creators of Demeo, a co-op recreation from Payday 3 developer Starbreeze, and a mysterious entry from Hasbro.
Baldur’s Gate 3 arrived in July 2023 and have become the shock hit of the yr, with gamers obsessing over its seemingly infinite variety of playstyles and story outcomes. It was extremely profitable commercially, pulling in $90 million for Hasbro and much more for developer Larian. Somehow, it is extra well-liked this yr than final.
In our 10/10 overview, IGN mentioned: “With crunchy, tactical RPG fight, a memorable story with advanced characters, extremely polished cinematic presentation, and a world that all the time rewards exploration and creativity, Baldur’s Gate 3 is the brand new high-water mark for CRPGs.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
