Spyro: A Realm Beyond Announced, Features 'True Dragon Flight'

Toys for Bob revealed Spyro: A Realm Beyond during Xbox Games Showcase with a abbreviated teaser trailer and a glimpse of gameplay. This is the archetypal first Spyro crippled successful astir 20 years, and it features the instrumentality of Tom Kenny arsenic the dependable of Spyro and a archetypal successful the series: "true dragon flight."

Spyro: A Realm Beyond is acceptable for outpouring 2027 crossed Xbox Series X and S, PC, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 2.

The abbreviated teaser trailer we saw during Xbox Games Showcase starts with a cinematic that yet reveals Spyro taking disconnected into the air. After a Spyro: A Realm Beyond rubric screen, we’re treated to 10 seconds of gameplay showing disconnected Spyro flying in-game, not gliding.

Spyro’s got a somewhat updated look that reflects his caller abilities, featuring overmuch larger wings than helium sports successful erstwhile games successful which helium could lone glide a bulk of the time.

“We’re trying to amplify what it means to beryllium a dragon, and that means leaning into dragon flight,” explained Lou Studdert, subordinate originative manager for Spyro: A Realm Beyond astatine Toys for Bob.

He clarified that successful Spyro: A Realm Beyond, you’ll beryllium capable to modulation from crushed to aerial astatine a moment’s notice. It’s simply “press a button” whenever you’d like, and it’s not restricted to definite areas oregon levels. This doesn’t mean, however, that you’ll beryllium capable to wholly bypass the satellite astir you to get to those gems and imaginable secrets.

“One of the things we’re showing disconnected successful the gameplay information [of the trailer] is, we privation you interacting with the environment,” Studdert said. “We privation you diving down to drawback speed, utilizing your occurrence enactment to ignite campfires to get assistance earlier flapping your wings to prolong movement.”

This innate formation mechanic was Toys for Bob’s archetypal absorption of prototyping, and it drove however the workplace created the crippled arsenic a whole.

“Some of the things that fans truly bask astir Spyro is conscionable the movement,” said Toys for Bob workplace caput Paul Yan. “It’s this Zen-like travel done the world, a consciousness of find and chaining your complaint done the velocity pads, collecting your gems. And truthful formation seems similar a earthy mode to instrumentality that to the adjacent level, literally.”

Toys for Bob has worked connected a fig of Spyro titles, including the Skylanders series, and Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, the remake of the archetypal 3 Spyro games: Spyro the Dragon, Ripto’s Rage!, and Year of the Dragon.

It was portion making the Reignited Trilogy backmost successful 2018 erstwhile the developers archetypal got the spark that evolved into a Realm Beyond. Though Toys for Bob is looking astatine the implicit past of the franchise, the squad admit the archetypal trilogy is wherever the quality started, truthful it’s wherever they privation to physique and spell from.

“The Reignited Trilogy is wherever we benignant of recovered that tone, recovered that quality and it truly personified who Spyro is,” Studdert explained. “We saw that truly resonate with the instrumentality base, and truthful for us, that’ll ever beryllium an anchor."

Yan said that bringing backmost Tom Kenny arsenic the dependable of Spyro is beauteous suggestive of however the workplace thinks and what the instauration is for Spyro: A Realm Beyond. They emotion the character, and thing truly embodies Spyro for them much than Tom Kenny, the archetypal dependable of Spyro.

“We’re precise excited to perceive what the instrumentality basal thinks,” Yan said. “You know, each year, they’re precise committed. There’s Spyro assemblage time and we’re listening, and I’m conscionable thrilled to beryllium capable to conscionable say, ‘Yes, we person been making this, we perceive you, there’s a caller game.’”

There’s definite to beryllium much details connected Spyro: A Realm Beyond coming soon considering its accelerated approaching merchandise adjacent spring, but successful the meantime, don’t miss IGN’s roundup of everything announced during Xbox Games Showcase 2026.

Casey DeFreitas is IGN’s Deputy Editor of Guides. Catch her connected socials @ShinyCaseyD talking astir hunting oregon catching monsters (and dragons).