Disney Dreamlight Valley is available from Tuesday, September 6, 2022 in Early Access on all platforms. The opportunity for you to discover this magical world and restore it by finding lost Disney and Pixar characters. All means are good: whether it's exploring the open world by unlocking the passages of nocturnal thorns thanks to the Dreamlight, or going through the castle and its magic paintings. Today we're going to take a look at the massive roadmap planned for the game: upcoming characters, content updates, bug fixes and more.
The next two updates
In Early Access, we already know that DDV will benefit from two free content updates:
- October 19, 2022 : Find Scar and more in the Lion King update,
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Late Autumn: The Kingdom of Toy Story will be added with its characters and other surprises.
Note that these updates will bring huge bug fixes and other problems present in the game (bulb bug for the Wall-E quest for example, optimization of the game on Nintendo Switch etc..)
The huge leak of characters coming to the game
This is probably what most DDV players are currently interested in: which characters will be joining the adventure in the coming months? Thanks to the official data of the game, we know exactly who will be in the game or not. Be careful however, although about twenty characters are in the files, the developers can very well decide never to deploy them and even better: decide to add others. The Disney/Pixar universe is so vast that the possibilities seem endless , especially when you see the size of the Castle of Dreams and the number of doors still locked.
In the article below, you will find the exact list of characters to come in the game (from Hercules to Mr. Incredible, passing by the Shepherdess from Toy Story!) but also some other new features that will be added such as fertilizer or fishing bait:
Note that in an interview, Gameloft developers confirmed that the roadmap was very substantial, whether in early access or for the future of the game in 2023 .
The transition to free-to-play: Disney will be free in 2023!
If the game interests you a lot but you prefer to wait for it to be more complete and above all free, know that it will be possible in 2023. No precise release date has yet been communicated but the developers are aiming for the start of the game. 'year. In the meantime, early access can still be purchased through Founders Packs on consoles and PC.
A free-to-play version of the game will necessarily involve microtransactions , but these will only concern the purchase of premium currency (moon stones) allowing you to obtain the Premium of the Battle Pass and probably, in the future, unique cosmetic items in a dedicated shop.
On the physical edition side, we do not yet know if this is planned: currently, the only way to buy the game is to pay for early access in a dematerialized version. So you can't find it in stores like Micromania.