Hitman’s developer takes a stab at an internet fantasy RPG

IO Interactive, the developer recognized for the long-running Hitman franchise, is engaged on a brand new sport within the fantasy RPG style it says it’ll “develop for a few years to come back.”

The title, codenamed “Venture Fantasy,” gained’t have something to do with the Hitman franchise (though it might be hilarious to see Agent 47 wielding a bow and arrow on horseback). In its announcement, IO Interactive shared a picture exhibiting three World of Warcraft-esque characters looking right into a sprawling panorama and says the staff takes inspiration from roleplaying books and tabletop video games.

“This concept – {that a} numerous group of people with completely different expertise and strengths can work collectively and change into greater than the sum of their elements — is what conjures up us,” IO Interactive writes. “It conjures up the fantasy world we’re constructing — and it conjures up how we construct it.”

Other than that, we don’t actually know what to anticipate by way of gameplay or plot, nevertheless it appears to corroborate rumors in regards to the “Venture Dragon” sport Home windows Central first reported on in 2021. On the time, the outlet described the upcoming sport as a “connected-world RPG, set in a completely new universe” that it’s probably engaged on with Microsoft.