Brandon Sanderson says AAA studios "who I like a lot" are interested in a Mistborn game, and he's "trying to do things differently" with the adaptation rights

There's been talk of a video game adaptation of Mistborn for well over a decade at this point, but author Brandon Sanderson is optimistic that a new set of circumstances has opened the door to one happening – for real this time. Sanderson says he's currently talking to some major AAA studios about a proper Mistborn game.

"I've started to get some real interest on the video game front, and I feel I'm finally getting established enough that we can make a Mistborn game happen," the author writes in the latest edition of his annual State of the Sanderson blog. "To that end, I've started talking to some AAA developers."

Sanderson says the project is at the pitching phase right now, meaning that he's simply discussing a potential Mistborn adaptation with various game studios, but it seems those early talks are "encouraging." Especially since, as Sanderson explains, they're no longer tied to the rights for the Mistborn film.

"These rights were tied up with the film rights for the last... oh, six~seven years, so I didn’t get to test the market on them until recently," Sanderson adds. "I'm trying to do things differently this time in an effort to retain control of my video game rights. I already have interest from some major players in the Video Game industry (who I like a lot)."

If the idea of a video game adaptation of Sanderson's work sounds familiar, you might be thinking of Mistborn: Birthright, an ill-fated action game with RPG elements that was in development for several years in the early '10s before it was ultimately canceled. That game would've been a prequel story set hundreds of years before the books.

As for the impending game project, there's no hints about what it might look like, and if it's still being pitched, I suspect whatever idea Sanderson might have for it is very much subject to change. But, it seems, he's keen to get it off the ground. "If you are a decision maker at a AAA studio," Sanderson concludes, "or a major independent, and you’ve always wanted to make a Mistborn or Stormlight game... well, you would want to contact my reps now."

Sanderson has done sporadic work in the gaming world before. He contributed to Subnautica dev Unknown Worlds' strategy game Moonbreaker, and apparently has a standing invitation to pitch something to Bandai Namco. He also wrote a pair of novels developing the lore of Infinity Blade, a mobile game from Epic that played like something of a fantasy take on Punch-Out. That might go some way to explaining why Mistborn's most notable entry into the video game world has come through Fortnite.

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