You might have heard: while Larian isn’t done with updating Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio’s next game won’t be Baldur’s Gate 4 or anything to do with D&D.
But while studio founder and head Swen Vincke mentioned the team was working on “a new thing” in his enjoyably open talk at GDC, it wasn’t exactly clear what “new” meant. Speaking to Eurogamer at the event however, Vincke elaborated just a little further. The next thing will be “New in the sense that it is different from the things that we’ve done before.”
It will be “Still familiar enough, but different,” he said, while the “tone, style, way of doing it, are for us certainly new – and I think very appealing. I would love to talk about it already – because I’m very excited about it – but I can’t say more. But it’s new in that sense.”
Vincke also clarified what appears to be a slight misunderstanding about the game’s overall size, however that might be defined. During the week Vincke has been quoted as saying the next game the studio is working on would “dwarf” it. That doesn’t quite match up to what he intended.