Critical Role Video Game Announcement Could Arrive 'Any Day,' Travis Willingham Confirms

Dungeons & Dragons show Critical Role is on the verge of releasing its first big video game, and CEO Travis Willingham says it could be announced “any day.”

The group spoke about its big plans for the future during an interview with Business Insider. There’s no word on what the video game will be called or how exactly it will tie into the Critical Role universe quite yet, but Willingham said the team behind it remains “hard at work.”

"They'll actually be getting their hand on the stick and controlling the outcome of the story, changing what might be possible from not just some of their favorite characters, but new offerings in the world of Exandria," he said when describing the video game spinoff.

Willingham, an actor who also serves as one of Critical Role’s stars, co-founded the business alongside other familiar voice acting faces like Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, and more. Since its inception, the D&D show has grown into an entire universe of ideas, with one of the more popular outings being its hit Amazon Prime Video spinoff, Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina.

A Critical Role video game would exist alongside its other projects but not necessarily directly tie in with them. In December 2024, Willingham told Rolling Stone that the crew was in “active pursuit” of creating a Critical Role video game spinoff, saying they were “starting to come to the end of a long road that we’ve been undertaking for the last couple of years.” It’s unclear if the story might follow one of the group’s different campaigns or tell an original story within its world.

At the time, he and the rest of the Critical Role team expected to make an announcement before 2024 came to a close or in the beginning of 2025. Now, nearly three months into the year, it sounds like an announcement really could arrive any day.

“Those collaborations we’ve had with various partners have been little toe dips in the pool just to see how it feels,” Willingham said to Rolling Stone. “You know, there’s a lot of upheaval in the interactive space right now. And we’ve seen studios sort of bear and weather those strains. It’s trying to become smarter about it and find out how we might fit into that larger ecosystem.”

No release date for the Critical Role video game has been released yet. In the meantime, you can check out first details on The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4.

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