Forget Baldur's Gate 3, the Critical Role team are talking about creating their own video game
Dec. 2, 2024“We’ve been talking about creating a video game since we first started playing together”
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The team behind the nerdy empire and web series Critical Role is thinking of expanding its huge portfolio of Dungeons & Dragons live shows, Twitch streams, and agreat animated serieseven further by making a video game, apparently. What kind of video game? Who could say!
“We’ve been talking about creating a video game since we first started playing together,” voice actress Laura Baileytold Rolling Stone.
Critical Role’s main cast members are all voice actors with notable video game experience. Bailey, for example, voiced Abby in The Last of Us Part 2, whilelegendary Dungeon MasterMatthew Mercer has appeared in a huge array of franchises, including Pokemon, Mortal Kombat, and Resident Evil. Funneling that serious experience into Critical Role’s very own video game shouldn’t betoomuch of an ordeal. Right?
After spending so long just discussing game development, Critical Role has seemingly recently decided to make it “an active pursuit on our end,” according to Travis Willingham, World of Warcraft voice actor and Critical Role member, in the same interview.
“The last few years, we have been having necessary conversations to figure out how to do [development] smartly,” he continues. “It’s an entire enterprise that’s separate from what we do on [membership service] Beacon, Twitch, orYouTube; it’s separate from the animated series.”
For now, some fans are hoping that Critical Role might get a little development help from Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian, which – if you didn’t already know – ispretty talentedat adapting D&D into a video game. That said, there’s no guarantee a Critical Role video game would even have anything to do with D&D.
Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
“If Larian Studios does literally anything [that] involves the Critical Role property, I will die,” one enthusiastic fansays on Twitter. Until we learn more, don’t hold your breath.
Critical Role really wants you to break their upcoming TTRPG, Daggerheart.
Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand devs say Baldur’s Gate 3-style level caps help make games shorter, because not everybody has “time for 100-hour RPGs”
Cyberpunk 2077’s surprise car customization update was co-developed by the Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake devs, lets you lower your wanted level on the fly GTA-style
“It seems we’ve missed the mark”: As their Steam review score drops to 14%, Dauntless devs wade into feedback after a disastrous update that gutted progress
