Ill-fated co-op slasher Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance disappears in February, though will still be playable solo

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In news that’s only surprising on account of the fact that the game lasted as long as it did, Tuque Games' co-op hack-and-slasher Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance will be shutting down servers and be removed from sale on February 24, 2025. The game will still be available to play single-player, but as things stand there will be no more online functionality as of that date, which is pretty much a death knell for a game largely built around co-op dungeoneering.

In an update to the Dungeons & Dragons: Dark AllianceSteam store page(viaPolygon), the developers wrote:

Right from those early trailers, which were packed with squirm-inducing music choices, Dark Alliance felt like a game with an identity problem. It took the ‘Dark Alliance’ name from the well-liked Baldur’s Gate spin-offs that originally came out in the early 2000s, but didn’t really have anything to do with those games. Instead of top-down Diablo-like play (which the D&D setting is absolutely crying out for), Dark Alliance was a third-person co-op action game set in Icewind Dale, andstarring the Forgotten Realms Drow bad boy Drizzt Do’Urdenamong other familiar faces from the setting.

(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)

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In some ways this aesthetically pleasing arena-based stomp through fantasy climes felt like a more action-oriented, story-light Dragon Age: The Veilguard, minus all the bonkable companions and super-polished combat. The game got off to a shaky launch with tons of connectivity problems and bugs, and despite the dev patching the game up over the years and bolstering it with an expansion, the player base never really picked up.

It’s a shame the devs never deliveredthe split-screen update they said was forthcoming, because that could’ve given the game a lease of life beyond its doomed online multiplayer.

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