AAA Open-world Dungeons & Dragons RPG Revealed
We've learned that the developers at Defense Grid are working on a AAA open-world fantasy RPG that will be set in one of the Dungeons & Dragons settings.
Hidden Path Entertainment, the studio behind the Defense Gridseries, is working on a high-budget open-world RPG based on the Dungeons & Dragons license. The team is currently looking for employees for the project. From the job offers published on the company's website, we know that the game is being created on Unreal Engine 4 and that we will lead a party of heroes in it.
We don't know yet in which D&D universe the game will be set. Currently, the world of Forgotten Realms is the most popular, but in the case of this project it may be different. The team responsible for the story is led by Whitney Beltrán, who co-created the upcoming Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft expansion for the tabletop Dungeons & Dragons. The gothic horror world of Ravenloft has rarely appeared in video games, so setting the action of Hidden Path Entertainment's upcoming RPG there would be more interesting than another visit to the Forgotten Realms.
So far, players have been able to visit Ravenloft four times. In the 1990s, DreamForge Entertainment released two successful RPGs based on this license in the form of Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession and Ravenloft: Stone Prophet. In the same decade, the brawler Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft was also released. Recently, we had the opportunity to visit this world in the Neverwinter expansion.
It's worth mentioning that it's just one of several projects based on the D&D license which are in development. Last year, the relase of Baldur's Gate 3 in Steam's Early Access turned out to be a great success. Another promising title is Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, created with the help of writer R. A. Salvatore, one of the most popular authors of D&D books.
