Electronic Arts has finally revealed the official launch date for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
As reported by Gematsu, Dragon Age: The Veilguard will PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows, via Steam and Epic Games Store, on October 31, 2024.
As developer Bioware have revealed before, the game will be fully playable on Steam Deck. Bioware have gone out of their way to get the EA client login requirement waived just for this EA title.
For those wondering, the rumored date for the game from the artbook was wrong, but only by one date. We imagine moving the date wasn’t a big deal for EA, and may or may not have anything to do with the original date being leaked.
It’s great timing to hit this year’s Halloween season, so don’t be surprised if you’ll see a bunch of Dragon Age cosplays for its midnight launch. At the same time, it means that the game will be readily available for the big Thanksgiving – Black Friday – Cyber Monday sales weekend. There will certainly be a lot of stock for this game in stores, for those who want it on physical, where physical retail is still available.
This also means Bioware was able to avert any possible direct competition between their game, and Obsidian’s upcoming action RPG, Avowed. We know that the two are not exactly the same game, and we aren’t going to argue on the finer details. EA and Microsoft Gaming were surely a little nervous that Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Avowed were so much alike that there was a real risk that they could eat on each other’s sales. We don’t know if EA and Microsoft actually talked about this directly, but having their releases spread farther apart is clearly best for everyone involved.
Finally, this means that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is slated to be one of the biggest games of 2024. Now, this year hasn’t been as spectacular as 2023, but it still had a set of big releases.
That includes full original releases like Dragon’s Dogma 2, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Persona 3 Reload, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. We would be remiss if we also did not mention Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree and Destiny 2: The Final Shape, which are technically expansions to older games, but have both proven so broad in depth and scope that they’re basically complete games in themselves. And then, there’s Helldivers 2, which is already having struggles meeting their player’s expectations a few months in. In spite of that, it was still one of the biggest launches of any game in some time, and is unlikely to be unseated as the biggest launch this year.
As healthy as the 2024 competition is, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is also avoiding the even more loaded deck expected in 2025. So if Bioware has made the masterpiece that fans are expecting after all the blood, sweat and tears they went through, they are definitely at play for making 2024’s GOTY.
