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Exclusive: White Lotus-focused ATLA RPG Quest for Balance with Breath of the Wild art style coming to PS4/5, Xbox, Switch, and PC November 8th— and we’ve seen gameplay footage

Earlier this week, a new Avatar game seemingly leaked out of nowhere. Listings for a console game called “Avatar The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance” suddenly popped up on Amazon Japan and a few other obscure places. There were zero details, but it was enough for big gaming media to pick it up and report on the mysterious potential leak based on its potential existence alone.

Of course, if you follow Avatar News, you already knew from one of our previous exclusive reports that an ATLA console RPG was coming “much sooner than you think”. Could these be the same thing?

I held off on reporting on this until I could get my sources to confirm, and now I’m back with more than I could have dreamed of…

Avatar News can exclusively confirm that Quest for Balance is indeed real and on its way to you this November 8th, from Paramount and its subsidiary Avatar Studios, and Game Mill.

But that’s not all. We were shown gameplay stills and footage and given a rundown of the game’s story.

Visually, Quest for Balance looks straight out of the iconic Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with that cel-shaded art style that has garnered so much praise to this day. Even the soft-but-epic fantasy lighting looks the same– it’s basically the world of Avatar shown through that lens.

The gameplay however is not like BOTW– right off the bat, I want to make it clear that Quest for Balance isn’t open world.

The framing story of the game is that, set after the end of the animated series, members of the Order of the White Lotus have gotten together for a game of Pai Sho, and start telling old war stories to each other. They tell the events of the end of the Hundred Year War– the events of the Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series, with Pakku covering Book One: Water, Bumi covering Book Two: Earth, and Iroh covering Book Three: Fire. You as the player play through these stories from the start to the end of ATLA. However, their memories aren’t foolproof, so you end up playing through alternate histories different from what happened in the show. It’s kind of like Avatar’s What If…? Some of these are more serious while some are more humorous.

The only playable character I personally saw in the small bits and pieces I was shown was Aang, but from what I understand there should be a bunch more for all the different stories.

This story system is why the game is prefixed with “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and not “Avatar”. The recently revealed, and aptly-titled, mobile RPG Avatar: Generations will evolve to cover different eras like Kyoshi, Roku, Aang, and Korra, while Quest for Balance is a big one-and-done console release specifically covering ATLA.

Avatar The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance is coming to:

It will have a relatively big marketing push, so keep an eye out very soon…