In an interview with The Game Business, Wizard of the Coast’s president John Hight touched on the company’s video games plans for Dungeons & Dragons.
Hight told interviewer Christopher Dring “Baldur’s Gate is an incredible game. And of course, we’re going to do a successor.”
However, the previously announced game that game studio Giant Skull is currently working on is not Baldur’s Gate 4. Hight says “This is not the successor to [Baldur’s Gate 3]. We go to Stig and his team to tell an incredible story and bring D&D to a very broad audience. Ideally, the game will appeal to D&D players because it will help them realise their imagination. But it’s also going to hopefully appeal to people that love playing action games, that love the Jedi games, that love God of War games.” Giant Skull’s game will be a single-player action-adventure game.
Giant Skull’s Stig Asmussen spoke a little about that–as yet untitled–game: “A lot of us have grown up on Dungeons & Dragons. And for me, with a new company, this is something that we’re good at. We’re good at working with partners. We’re good at capturing the spirit of those worlds. It wasn’t something that we could just walk away from. It was actually a pretty easy [decision]… Dungeons & Dragons is the definition of a playground. When we had the meeting in Renton [Washington], my mind opened up to the possibilities of what we could do. There’s still a lot of things that we have to abide by. There’s the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons. There are the worlds, player agency and choice, building a party, actions have consequences… those types of things.”
Giant Skull was founded by Stig Asmussen in 2023. Asmussen previously was the game director of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, as well as God of War 3.
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