Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be released this fall, watch the first trailer
During Sunday’s Xbox Games Showcase, BioWare showed off a new trailer Dragon Age: The Veil Guard (earlier Dreadwolf), with something fans of the legendary RPG franchise have been waiting for for a decade: a release date. Dragon Age: The Veil Guard will officially launch sometime this fall on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series
The new trailer for the fourth mainline Dragon Age game was more of a tone setter, introducing players to the adventurers they will be fighting. The Veil Guard. Those allies include:
- Harding: The Scout
- Neve: The detective
- Emmrich: The Necromancer
- Taash: The dragon hunter
- Davrin: The director
- Bellara: The Veil Jumper
- Lucanis: the magician assassin
BioWare promises that these seven companions will have rich lives and deep backstories, and that you’ll be able to befriend them, and even fall in love with them, over the course of the single-player story. Expect to learn more about it Dragon Age: The Veil Guard‘s companions and how they’ll play during a gameplay reveal livestream on June 11.
Little has been revealed so far about the sequel to Polygon’s 2014 Game of the Year, other than that it will be set in several lands previously unexplored in a core Dragon Age game, and that it will continue Solas’ story. a rogue mage and companion character Inquisition who inspired the legendary figure of the Dread Wolf and wants to tear apart reality.
However, BioWare shared in a blog post last week that the people behind the game felt like naming the game after the Dread Wolf. “Of course, the Dread Wolf still plays an important role in this story, but you and your companions – not your enemies – are the heart of this new experience.”
dragon age games are known for their rich companion characters, and The Veil Guard features a collection of seven, with “deep and compelling storylines where the decisions you make will impact your relationships with them – and their lives as well.”
It has been a long and difficult road for The Veil Guardespecially lately, with layoffs at BioWare, including all members of Canada’s first games industry union by 2023, former employees filing suit for inadequate severance pay, and generally high turnover among experienced Dragon Age staff and writers, including creative director Mike Laidlaw in 2017, producer Mark Darrah in 2020 (although he later returned as a consultant), and writer Mary Kirby in 2023.
Only time will tell if The Veil Guard can once again reach the heights of its predecessors. But now we know when that moment is.