Payday 3 developer Starbreeze Entertainment has announced that it's teaming up with Wizards of the Coast to create a cooperative multiplayer game based on the popular Dungeons & Dragons franchise. Starbreeze hasn't announced a name for the title just yet, but they have revealed that it's being developed under the name Project Baxter and will be released at some point in 2026.

In a post on the official Starbreeze Entertainment website (thanks Eurogamer), it's further explained that Project Baxter will contain "the signature Starbreeze game cornerstones of cooperative multiplayer" and that it will be a service game expected to last for multiple years. Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren goes on to thanks Wizards of the Coast for being a great partner and explains how excited he is to work with the D&D license.

When looking at prospective IPs for our future projects, Dungeons and Dragons was always at the top of our list and I'm incredibly happy to announce this license.

Dungeons & Dragons is obviously a very multiplayer-focused experience (you could play it on your own, but that would be very sad), but it will be interesting to see how Starbreeze uses the license to create a Payday 3-esque experience. For some reason, I doubt you'll have a party of adventurers don masks and go stick up the village bank, but the idea of executing a heist with a group of Dungeons & Dragons characters does sound pretty cool.

Whatever Project Baxter ends up being, it's clear that Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro are now very keen to dish out the Dungeons & Dragons license to game developers as much as they can. Given that Baldur's Gate 3 managed to cause a 40 percent rise in digital revenue for a company as massive as Hasbro, it makes sense that it would try to capitalize on the popularity of the IP and video games a lot more.

Project Baxter will more than likely be the beginning of a flurry of Dungeons & Dragons-based video games, with every publisher out there probably itching to get their hands on the license and make their own Baldur's Gate 3. While none of them will be able to replicate its success, Dungeons & Dragons obviously has a rich and interesting history that will be great to see explored more in-depth in future video games.

For now, we have Baldur's Gate 3 to enjoy, which keeps getting massive updates that add even more things to do and see. For example, the latest patch added a whole new epilogue that takes place six months after the events of the base game, one in which made beloved Baldur's Gate 3 icon Bing Bong canon.

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