Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance will end in 2025
Wizards of the Coast’s attempt to revive Dark Alliance’s beloved Dungeons & Dragons hacking brand is coming to an end. Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliancereleased in 2021 to average reviews, will go offline and be withdrawn from sale on February 24, 2025, the publisher said in a notice posted on digital storefronts.
“We will close (close) (so in the original) Dark Alliance servers on 02/24/2025, and from that day on it will no longer be available for purchase,” the publisher’s note reads. “The base game and all DLC are still available for offline single-player play by anyone who currently owns them.”
Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance was announced in 2019 as the spiritual successor – or at least what developer Tuque Games hoped to be – to the two Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games released in the early aughts. Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance However, it has little in common with previous Dark Alliance games. The spiritual successor was set in Icewind Dale and featured characters from R. A. Salvatore’s The Legend of Drizzt book series. Players could play Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance in single and cooperative multiplayer.
From the very beginning, Wizards of the Coast and Tuque Games’ approach to Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance felt incompatible with the sub-brand he was supposed to revive. The game was unveiled at The Game Awards 2019 with a bizarre trailer featuring Swedish heavy metal band In Flames and was mocked for its GoPro-style cinematography. Instead of the top-down, Diablo-inspired RPG mechanics of previous Dark Alliance games, DA felt more like a Gears of War game with its over-the-shoulder view of combat.
When Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance shipped in June 2021, the reception to the beast was lukewarm. “Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance “It’s not necessarily a bad game, but it doesn’t differentiate itself from other action-oriented live-service games, offering a fantasy skin that feels ordinary some 33 years after the novel’s release,” Polygon’s review of the game said. . The players reacted to this somewhat more harshly. Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliancewhich is currently rated “Mixed” on Steam.
Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance costs $29.99 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X if you want to grab a copy. Tuque Games has released an extension, Echoes of the Bloody Warin 2022, which adds a new playable character, Auralla (a tiefling sorcerer), and two new dungeons. Interplay has re-released Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance And Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2 for modern platforms in 2021 and 2022 respectively, if you prefer the classics.
Tuque Games has since changed its name to Invoke Studios and is working on “a AAA game based on Dungeons and Dragons Universe”, developed in Unreal Engine 5 for Wizards of the Coast.