Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of those series that feels tailor-made for video games — a rich world with deep lore, a colorful art style, and elemental powers that could instantly translate to gameplay. All the pieces are waiting to be put together, and while we have seen a handful of Avatar video games, they’ve all pretty spectacularly failed to capture the heart of the franchise. It looks like that might change, however, as Paramount and Saber Interactive have announced a partnership to make a brand new Avatar RPG, set thousands of years before the original animated show.
As revealed by IGN, the new game is part of the Avatar Legends universe, an initiative to broaden The Last Airbender through a variety of different media. The new game will be developed by Saber Interactive, the studio that just released Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2, in collaboration with Avatar Studios — a division launched by original show creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko in 2021.
