According to the latest batch of rumors about the upcoming Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, the game is at least somewhat comparable to the likes of Destiny and Final Fantasy 15, which may provide some early insight into what its gameplay could be like. Dreadwolf is, as it currently stands, still a big question mark for fans of developer Bioware and the Dragon Age IP as a whole, with precious little information revealed about it.
While every baseline Dragon Age title is an RPG, there have been fairly substantial differences between them in regard to their respective tone, narrative, and approach to the core gameplay loop. Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, specifically, may end up steering toward being a full-fledged action RPG, if the latest rumors concerning it are true.
It seems that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is fully playable already, albeit with no firm release window available yet, and the gaming website Insider Gaming claims to have spoken to an anonymous individual who had the opportunity to spend some time with it. Initially scoped as a live-service multiplayer experience, Dreadwolf has since pivoted towards being a single-player RPG. However, the source claims that certain core gameplay elements still reminded them of Destiny. It would appear that Dreadwolf is built around a hub world from which players then launch new missions, talk with their crew, and organize their inventory. The setup, as it was described, sounds fairly similar to that of Destiny's Tower, which is a bit of a departure from Dragon Age's previous entries.
Final Fantasy 15 was brought up, too, with the source claiming that Dreadwolf has taken some cues from Square Enix's ARPG. More specifically, the leaker has suggested that Dreadwolf is moving away from Dragon Age games in the context of combat gameplay and that it might be more of a hack 'n' slash experience with a combat wheel UI that reminded them of FF15. The jury is still out on whether this information is true, of course, but it's a curiously specific tidbit for the source to share.
The notion that Dreadwolf has pivoted away from its planned multiplayer component almost certainly has something to do with Anthem's failure as a live-service experience. Curiously, one of the critiques often directed at Dreadwolf's immediate predecessor, Dragon Age: Inquisition, was that it often felt like a single-player rendition of a Dragon Age MMORPG. If Insider Gaming's source is correct, something similar may yet happen with Dreadwolf, too.
The Dragon Age IP does have bigger problems than that, though. Some believe that Dragon Age has a Marvel issue in some respects, in that some of its antagonists just won't stay dead, no matter what. Bioware could very well still produce a quality RPG with Dreadwolf, of course, but even if it does, the studio's recent failures might not immediately reinvigorate its once-thriving community of fans.
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is in development for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Insider Gaming