Wizards of the Coast’s try to revive the beloved Dark Alliance model of hack-and-slash Dungeons & Dragons video games is coming to the ends of its life. Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, launched in 2021 to middling opinions, will go offline and be faraway from sale on Feb. 24, 2025, the writer introduced in a discover posted to digital storefronts.
“We might be shutting down (shut down) [sic] the Dark Alliance servers on 2/24/2025 and it’ll not be accessible to buy beginning that day,” reads a observe from the writer. “The base sport and all DLC are nonetheless accessible to play in offline single participant by anybody who at the moment owns it.”
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance was introduced in 2019 as a non secular successor to — or at the least its developer Tuque Games hoped to evoke — the 2 Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance video games launched within the early aughts. Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance shared little with the earlier Dark Alliance video games, nonetheless. The non secular successor was set in Icewind Dale and starred characters from R.A. Salvatore’s The Legend of Drizzt e book sequence as playable heroes. Players might play Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance in single-player and cooperative multiplayer.
From the get-go, Wizards of the Coast and Tuque Games’ strategy to Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance felt inconsistent with the sub-brand it was meant to revive. The sport was revealed at The Game Awards 2019 with a weird trailer that includes Swedish heavy metallic band In Flames and was mocked for its GoPro camera-style cinematography. Instead of the top-down, Diablo-inspired action-RPG mechanics of the earlier Dark Alliance video games, DA performed extra like a Gears of War sport, because of its over-the-shoulder perspective on fight.
When Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance shipped in June 2021, reception was tepid at beast. “Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance isn’t essentially a nasty sport, nevertheless it doesn’t differentiate itself from different action-oriented reside service video games, providing a fantasy pores and skin that feels generic some 33 years after the discharge of the novel,” Polygon mentioned in its overview of the sport. Players had a considerably harsher tackle Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, which at the moment has a “Mixed” overview score on Steam.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance prices $29.99 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X, if you wish to seize a replica. Tuque Games launched an enlargement, Echoes of the Blood War, in 2022, which provides new playable character Auralla (a Tiefling warlock) and two new dungeons. Publisher Interplay re-released Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance and Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2 for contemporary platforms in 2021 and 2022, respectively, in case you’d choose the classics.
Tuque Games has since modified its identify to Invoke Studios and is engaged on a “AAA sport derived from the Dungeons & Dragons universe” developed in Unreal Engine 5 for Wizards of the Coast.
