Dragon Age 4: Release Date, News, Trailer and More

Dragon Historic period 4 — everything we know and so far

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Dragon Age: Origins debuted in 2009, Dragon Age II debuted in 2011 and Dragon Historic period: Inquisition debuted in 2014. The developers are making fans wait a piffling longer betwixt each successive Dragon Age game, and the upcoming Dragon Historic period iv is no exception. Six years (and counting) after Inquisition, fans are still waiting on a lot of physical details about the next entry in BioWare'south sprawling high fantasy saga.

However, at least the end of this torturous vacuum of fresh information has a (vague) terminate date. BioWare has confirmed that fans should expect to hear more details about Dragon Age 4 in 2022. Aslope this tease comes confirmation that the game will be "unmarried-player focused" — which has certainly gone down well with fans.

We also know a few things almost Dragon Historic period 4: a basic premise, a suspected villain and fifty-fifty a potential title. Data beyond that, however, is largely speculative and uncertain — owing, perhaps, to a tumultuous development history. Hither'south everything we know about Dragon Age 4 so far.

Dragon Age 4 release appointment speculation

At that place's no concrete data effectually a potential release date for Dragon Age 4. The previous three main games oasis't followed a release cycle so this is very difficult to gauge at.

Reputable industry insider Tom Henderson has leaked that there is "no chance" that Dragon Age iv will release in 2022. This information reportedly comes from a source with cognition of EA's plan. If yous were hoping to be returning to the world of Thedas this yr, you might want to put those plans on ice.

A source with cognition of EA's plans has said there's "no chance" that Dragon Age 4 will release in 2022. pic.twitter.com/gFgBYvBmETJanuary xx, 2022

Despite this release date blow, nosotros'd at least hope to encounter something on Dragon Age iv this year, maybe fifty-fifty a trailer of the game in action. Nosotros're hoping that Bioware has been beavering away on Dragon Age four quietly and that nosotros could then meet the game come up out at some point in 2023, only that may be wishful thinking on our office.

Dragon Age 4 latest news

Bated from Dragon Historic period 4 being touted every bit a "single-player focused" experience and a behind the scenes video abut the game from August 2020, we've got very little news to go off at the time of writing.

The video doesn't address the game's release date, story premise or gameplay systems, just it shows that BioWare definitely has large plans for the game.

Dragon Age four trailer

At The Game Awards 2018, BioWare showed off a very short teaser trailer for Dragon Age 4. You tin can watch it here:

As you can tell, there's not a whole lot there: Just some armor, a magical trinket and the silhouette of Fen'Harel, the Dread Wolf: one of the gods in the Dragon Age pantheon. At that place are as well two lines of dialogue from the traitorous mage, Solas: "You've found me at concluding. I suspect you have questions."

One interesting tidbit, though: The trailer ends with a hashtag, #TheDreadWolfRises. This might be the game's title — or it might but exist a way for BioWare to keep tabs on the game'south social media presence. (It does have a nicer ring to it than "Dragon Age 4.") If The Dread Wolf Rises is really the game's championship, it's not a bad one; if not, it does at least give us a few hints about the story.

Dragon Age four story

To summarize the whole saga of Dragon Age would take more fourth dimension than I take in this particular article, but here are the broad strokes. Spoilers ensue, particularly for Dragon Age: Inquisition.

In Dragon Age: Origins, you take control of an adventurer who swears his or herself to the Grey Wardens. This aboriginal social club exists to fight confronting the invasive Darkspawn, and their draconic primary, the Archdemon. If left unchecked, the Archdemon can summon a Blight that will wipe out all life in the high-fantasy world of Thedas. By recruiting a party, making alliances with powerful nations and performing a tremendous sacrifice, the Grayness Warden defeats the Archdemon and saves the world — for now.

Dragon Age Ii tells a much more personal story, centered on the Hawke family in the city of Kirkwall. Taking place earlier, during and subsequently the events of Origins, y'all play as Hawke (starting time name: up to you), the son or daughter of a noble household trying to make your style in the earth. Dragon Age Ii's story is picaresque and takes you in a variety of different directions, only the central conflict is between the Mages, who desire freedom from an oppressive religious order, and the Templars, who see themselves as the terminal line of defense against a demonic uprising.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition ties these two stories together, to some extent. Hoping to avoid a total-scale war between the Mages and the Templars, the most powerful people in Thedas convene a conference. But a magical explosion kills all in attendance, relieve for a lone survivor who sets out to investigate the matter. He or she becomes an Inquisitor, who must build up a grassroots support network all effectually the continent, with the ultimate goal of defeating a demon who seeks to manipulate both the Mages and the Templars for his own proceeds.

In Inquisition, one of your political party members is Solas: an enigmatic mage who is never 100% articulate on why he's joined your quest. Afterwards you defeat the concluding dominate, he leaves the party entirely. (At that place is some postgame content that you lot can complete with other companions.) During the Trespasser expansion — Inquisitions' final piece of downloadable content — y'all finally reconvene with Solas, who reveals that he is really Fen'Harel: the Dread Wolf. And he wants revenge on Thedas for making his race, the elves, into second-form citizens.

The Inquisitor realizes that Solas knows the party besides well, and that any action confronting him volition have to come from a brand-new group of adventurers. Then, it seems safe to say that Dragon Age 4 volition involve — at to the lowest degree in some capacity — a new protagonist leading a (mostly) new grouping of heroes against the Dread Wolf.

Of course, knowing BioWare's propensity for twists and turns, it probably won't turn out to be quite that elementary. Merely it's a proficient identify to start. We'll share more well-nigh Dragon Age four whenever BioWare elects to reveal more data.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom's Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and technology. After hours, you tin can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.