Disney Dreamlight Valley Official Paid Release Set For December

Disney is more fun with friends, especially now that Disney Dreamlight Valley’s full release amps up its multiplayer finisher with the full release version on the horizon.

Disney Dreamlight Valley has gobbled up all of my time in the past year. After logging in every day to say hi to your Disney faves in the early access version, I think you’re entitled to know when the full version is coming out.

's first-ever Showcase Event was held on November 1, 2023, and included many announcements regarding a roadmap of content coming to the game over the next year. is leaving Early Access and launching as a full game, but that doesn't mean the developers are slowing down plans to release new content. Many new characters and even a full expansion for the game that doubles the size of the map are coming soon.

During Merlin's Quest "" in , you will be tasked with delving into a Mystical Cave and getting past three Magic Gates, out of which the second gate can be quite confusing to open. The first Gate requires you to find three Gemstones: a blue Aquamarine, a green Peridot, and a red Garnet. While gathering these resources for the first gate is quite straightforward, opening the second gate requires a bit more ingenuity from players. You must solve a riddle that refers to key ingredients that can be found across the valley; however, deciphering the riddle isn't as straightforward.

For the third time in less than two years, I have COVID-19. Whenever an illness has forced me to stay in bed, my comfort food has been gaming. In 2009 I played through all of Assassin’s Creed II in a feverish, swine flu-induced haze. When I was sick with COVID for the first time, I jumped into Red Dead Redemption 2 blind, and found a story about sickness and human mortality. Now, during one of the most stacked years in recent gaming history, I find myself under the covers not with Starfield, Spider-Man 2 or any of the other big fall releases. Instead, my bedside companion is a small Apple Arcade exclusive called Japanese Rural Life Adventure.

We learned a lot from the first-ever Disney Dreamlight Valley Showcase, a new live stream format that delivers Disney Dreamlight Valleyfans a regular helping of juicy information about upcoming updates. 

Gameloft revealed a host of upcoming Disney Dreamlight Valley content during a product showcase on Wednesday.

Disney Dreamlight Valley: A Rift in Time is an expansion that whisks players away to three biomes and introduces them to four new characters.

Disney Dreamlight Valley spent 40 minutes spitting rainbows and new content at their player base in the DDV Showcase. Every minute was put to good use, and the most exciting news is the confirmation of the upcoming Multiplayer Mode.

Though we'd known for some time that Disney Dreamlight Valley had plans to incorporate multiplayer in its cozy social sim, Gameloft has been quite tight-lipped on the details—until now. In its digital showcase today, Dreamlight Valley unveiled all sorts of updates coming to the game over the next year: a first game expansion, lots more free realms and villagers, and those long-awaited multiplayer details. And, as promised in the original 2023 roadmap, multiplayer is landing before the end of this year.

A new has been released, previewing some of the Disney characters in the upcoming expansion.

Gameloft shared new announcements for Disney Dreamlight Valley during its Disney Dreamlight Valley Showcase event today, including details on the paid expansion “A Rift in Time” and global launch, the roadmap for 2024, an Apple Arcade version, and more.