Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is D&D’s first clicker game (Updated)

Dungeons & Dragons is “clicking” with players worldwide in new ways thanks to livestreaming on Twitch, the renaissance of tabletop games, and a fantastic 5th Edition that gets better with every new storyline that Wizards of the Coast releases. The publisher is now looking to Codename Entertainment for the latest D&D video game: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.

Idle Champions is an “incremental game,” which first gained notice with Cookie Clicker in 2013. These have been on a steady rise, as GameBeat detailed in a November 2015 interview with Codename Entertainment on its biggest hit, Crusaders of the Lost Idols (which will serve as the foundation for Idle Champions, which is a separate game). Idle Champions will debut in the third quarter on Steam, Valve’s digital gaming portal and community. It’s set on the Sword Coast in the west of the Forgotten Realms campaign world (where all of D&D’s 5th Edition stories are taking place). It will revisit older storylines (D&D has published Tyranny of Dragons, Elemental Evil, Rage of Demons, Curse of Strahd, and Storm King’s Thunder thus far) along with offering new tales from the recently announced Tomb of Annihilation storyline and other campaigns and events. Two of the heroes you can play are also from Force Grey, a streaming series that focuses on a group of adventurers.