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‘Disney Dreamlight Valley’ Sets Paid Expansion For ‘Storybook Vale’ As Video Game Shutters Gold Edition
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‘Disney Dreamlight Valley’ Sets Paid Expansion For ‘Storybook Vale’ As Video Game Shutters Gold Edition

“Disney Dreamlight Valley” unveiled its roadmap to the summer of 2025 during a developer showcase on Tuesday, unveiling the second paid expansion for the Gameloft-created video game as well as future free updates to the game.

During the event, Disney and Gameloft also announced that the Gold Edition of “Disney Dreamlight Valley” (a bundle offering the base game, paid expansion “A Rift in Time” and in-game bonus items) will be set for to coincide with the release of the second paid expansion, The Storybook Vale, on November 20.

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“The Storybook Vale” expansion, which requires the base game (currently priced at $39.99) to play, will be priced at $29.99 and $49.99 for the “magic edition,” a deal that offers items exclusive to the game. The update will come in two parts, both included in the initial fee: “Welcome to the Vale,” which launches on November 20, and “The Unwritten Realms,” which debuts in the summer of 2025.

See the full breakdown of the new prices below.

The first drop will include the introduction of Disney and Pixar characters Flynn Rider from ‘Tangled’, Merida from ‘Brave’ and Hades from ‘Hercules’, with appearances from ‘Sleeping Beauty’ villain Maleficent, who will be better introduced in Part 2. In the second part, Gameloft developers suggest that Princess Aurora, aka Sleeping Beauty, will join.

According to the description for the “Welcome to the Vale” story, “Plunge into a mythic adventure to help the Keeper of Lore restore a distant land, while antagonizing Merida, Flynn, and Hades along the way.” And for “The Unwritten Realms” part of “The Storybook Vale” expansion: “With Maleficent’s help, venture into a strange world beneath Storybook Vale and solve the mystery of the missing princess.”

Although there are only two parts to the paid expansion “The Storybook Vale” and there were three for the first paid expansion, “A Rift in Time” (which was released last December), developers Gameloft said during the presentation on Tuesday that these two installments will feature more story compared to the split chapters of “A Rift in Time” that came out over the course of last year.

In The Storybook Vale expansion, players will have access to the new networking tool to help them capture new creature characters called “Shards” to bring the magic of Disney and Pixar back to the pages of the Keeper of Knowledge. The updated game will include three new biomes in Storybook Vale: The Bind (inspired by dark academia), Ever After (a magical mushroom fairy forest), and Mythopia (a section of Greco-Roman mythology). Each of these new biomes will have new animals for players to befriend and turn into companions”: dragons, owls and mini winged horses.

On the free update side, “Disney Dreamlight Valley” is releasing “Sew Delightful” on December 4, which will include the holiday-themed “Frost & Fairies Star Path” featuring “The Nightmare Before Christmas” character Sally. In this update, the game will include “floating islands” that act as “extensions” of four of the existing biomes in the Valley to provide “ample space to create” and house villagers, as well as the ability to now use 16 points of rotation. to place objects and houses.

The presentation also teased the stories and characters set to appear in several free updates to “Disney Dreamlight Valley” through next year: “Aladdin” for early 2025, “Alice in Wonderland” for spring and eventually then, solving the Skull Rock mystery (with a hint of a “Peter Pan” connection) next summer.

Watch the trailer for Disney Dreamlight Valley’s The Storybook Vale expansion below.

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