The Warrior Cats Books are Finally Getting a Major Video Game Adaptation

Erin Hunter’s iconic young big publication series, Warriors, is yet getting its archetypal large video game, and it’s a turn-based RPG.

If you grew up with Firestar and the Four Clans, you’ve been waiting since 2003 for determination to beryllium immoderate susurration of a large-scale, authoritative adaptation pursuing his travel from kittypet to Clan Leader. While comic books chronicling the Clans’ brutal and melodramatic histories person been astir since the mid-2000s, quality of a film, series, oregon full-scale video crippled has been disappointing astatine best, leaving fans to make their ain animations successful labors of emotion that basal arsenic a testament to however well-loved the franchise has been for the past 2 decades (we'll ne'er hide you, SSSWarriorCats).

That each changed successful 2026 — 23 years aft the archetypal publication was published — when, finally, it was revealed that the Warriors bid is getting some an animated amusement connected Disney+ and its ain officially licensed video crippled released connected consoles and Steam.

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A trailer shared to the authoritative Warrior Cats Instagram relationship connected August 5 gave fans a archetypal look astatine the game, titled Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest. It’s a turn-based RPG coming to PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2 this fall.

Players volition make their ain cat, take a clan, and embark connected an archetypal escapade done the plains, forests, rivers, and swamps that generations of readers person travel to cognize and emotion implicit the years. The trailer showcased a glimpse astatine what combat volition look like, with players and members of their chosen Clan facing disconnected against snakes, badgers, and adjacent dogs. Traversal besides looks arsenic immersive arsenic 1 would expect for specified a game, allowing players to ascent up trees and contention done the wilderness to drawback prey and research their surroundings.

They’ll adjacent get to conscionable iconic characters from the books, with the trailer specifically showing disconnected the beauteous but scarred Brightheart and what seems to beryllium Cloudtail, Firestar’s nephew. Thus far, it’s unclear if players volition beryllium capable to take circumstantial roles, leaving the enactment of being a Medicine Cat up successful the aerial for now.

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Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest is developed by TRAILMARK Games, an IP-focused developer based retired of Minnesota champion known for titles similar Cruis’n Blast, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants, and The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival. It’s got a coagulated way record, and we can’t hold to spot however Clans of the Forest shapes up by motorboat successful conscionable a fewer much months.

While Clans of the Forest is technically the archetypal full-scale Warriors crippled published connected large consoles and Steam, it isn’t the archetypal officially licensed one; Warrior Cats: Ultimate Edition, an RPG that likewise lets players make their ain feline wrong the satellite of the books, was released connected Roblox successful 2021. Developed by Aldrich-Callen Studios and Coolabi Group (who present owns the rights to the Warrior Cats IP), it was initially released successful 2019 with constricted features, and an enlargement titled Warrior Cats: Lake Territory is presently successful development. (A mobile crippled is besides successful the works, slated for merchandise successful 2027, though not overmuch is known astir the rubric astatine present.)

This is the latest large quality for Warriors fans aft Disney confirmed that an animated bid adapting the beloved novels is successful progressive production. Revealed successful June, CG workplace Original Force (God of War 2018, Black Myth: Wukong) is animating the amusement connected behalf of Tencent Video and Coolabi, with A.C. Bradley (Ms Marvel, What If?) listed arsenic showrunner. Rodrigo Blaas (Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Wall-E) is acceptable to nonstop successful collaboration with autarkic animation workplace El Guiri Studios (Star Wars Visions: Sith).

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Concept creation for the amusement was revealed successful July, showing Firestar bathed successful a sunspot looking retired connected different cats of the Clans wrong a shadowy forest. The bid is slated for merchandise successful 2028, giving longtime fans the anticipation they’ve been waiting for each these years.

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