Payday 3 developer announces D&D game that\u2019s the opposite of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Starbreeze EntertainmentThe developer of Payday 3 has announced \u201cProject Baxter,\u201d a new co-op multiplayer D&D live service video game coming in 2026 that sounds like it will be the opposite of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. A big reason why Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is so successful is that it manages to capture the essence of a D&D 5E tabletop campaign. It\u2019s an epic story that the player shapes with their own actions, no matter how unhinged their Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 party may be. The D&D license is huge and has a lot of scope for multimedia releases, which results in lots of video games. Unfortunately, some of these use the license in name only, which results in games of varying quality, like Dark Alliance. A new D&D video game is on the horizon, and it\u2019s something that fans haven\u2019t seen before. A D&D co-op multiplayer title has been announced for 2026, and it\u2019s being made by the developers of a popular 2023 game, who are also publishing the game. \u201cProject Baxter\u201d is a new D&D game by Payday 3\u2019s developer Payday 3 developer Starbreeze Entertainment\u2019s announced on its Twitter\/X account that it\u2019s making an official D&D video game called \u201cProject Baxter,\u201d a co-op multiplayer title coming to multiple platforms in 2026. A post on the official Starbreeze Entertainment website has revealed more details. Project Baxter is a games-as-a-service title, which means it will be more similar to Payday 3 than a title like Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, which makes sense, considering the developer involved. Fans introduced to D&D through Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 might not find Project Baxter as interesting, as it will be multiplayer-focused. While Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 can be played with multiple people, it\u2019s mostly a single-player\/story-focused experience, which is usually not the case with live service titles. It\u2019s unclear where this new game will be set in the D&D multiverse, as the few pieces of official artwork released for Project Baxter are very generic and could be part of any fantasy franchise. There\u2019s a good chance the game will be set in the Forgotten Realms, the same D&D setting used by Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. The Forgotten Realms is the most popular D&D setting and is well-suited for a video game. Project Baxter likely won\u2019t be the only D&D game announced over the next year, as the popularity of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has invigorated the license for video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Payday 3 developer announces D&D game that\u2019s the opposite of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Starbreeze EntertainmentThe developer of Payday 3 has announced \u201cProject Baxter,\u201d a new co-op multiplayer D&D live service video game coming in 2026 that sounds like it will be the opposite of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. A big reason why Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}