# Dark Sun, D&D’s most heavy metal setting, will be back in 2027

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dark-sun-dds-most-heavy-metal-setting-will-be-back-in-2027/
- Published: 2026-07-31T00:51:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-31T01:03:57+00:00
- Original publisher: PC Gamer
- Original article: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/board-games/dark-sun-d-and-ds-most-heavy-metal-setting-will-be-back-in-2027/
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- Dark Sun returns to Dungeons & Dragons in 2027.
- The setting is a brutal, post-apocalyptic fantasy world.
- Wizards will revisit a setting last updated in 2010.

## Summary

Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that Dark Sun, Dungeons & Dragons’ post-apocalyptic desert campaign setting, will return in 2027. The announcement matters because it revives one of the game’s most distinctive and long-dormant worlds, known for its harsh survival themes, psionics and heavy-metal-influenced fantasy.

Dark Sun is set on Athas, a devastated world ruled by powerful sorcerer-kings where magic has damaged the environment. The setting originally launched in 1991 and was last substantially updated for D&D’s fourth edition in 2010; its new version will need to address elements of the older material that have since drawn criticism.

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