D&D Virtual Reality Game Announced by Demeo Developers

Today, Resolution Games and Wizards of the Coast announced a collaboration on the world's first D&D virtual reality game, now in production for a future release.

Tommy Palm, founder and CEO of Resolution Games, stated:

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As anyone who’s played Demeo can guess, we’re incredibly huge fans of tabletop roleplaying games. They have an unparalleled power to bring people together to create shared experiences, and that’s something we’ve tried to capture, too, with nearly every release in our library. D&D offers one of the richest fantasy worlds that has ever been created, and it only gets bigger with every new sourcebook and adventure. We’re beyond humbled to have the opportunity to work with such an incredible IP and look forward to sharing the first details of this new project in the future.

Eugene Evans, Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy and Licensing at Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, added:

Resolution Games has a clear understanding of how to bring players together and capture the fun of tabletop gaming on digital platforms in an accessible way. They are an ideal partner to bring a new DUNGEONS & DRAGONS video game to life in VR and beyond. D&D and our other world-class gaming brands continue to attract amazing partners as we execute our strategy to grow our digital games portfolio through licensing and internal development.

No further information was shared about this upcoming D&D virtual reality game, suggesting the launch is at least a few years off. For those unfamiliar with Resolution Games, it's a Stockholm-based game developer known primarily for Demeo, a turn-based RPG dungeon crawler. While the press release says the new D&D title will be built exclusively for VR platforms, Demeo also launched on VR only but was eventually released for non-VR devices, too. Perhaps the same could happen for this next project.

Wizards of the Coast once had a grand project for a