Dispatch Rockets to 1 Million in 10 Days — Season 2 Now on the Table
Dispatch season 2 just vaulted into the likely column, with fresh signals hinting at a greenlight soon.
Dispatch has been one of those pleasant curveballs: a superhero-comedy narrative adventure that quietly rolled out in late October, dropped weekly episodes, and then, somehow, blew past a million sales. That kind of momentum tends to change a studio's plans fast.
Season 1 lands, and the Season 2 talk starts
AdHoc Games co-founder and Dispatch co-director Nick Herman says the team went from maybe to probably on continuing the story once they crossed that sales milestone. On the Friends Per Second podcast (first noticed by TheGamer), Herman spelled out how quickly the conversation shifted.
"We are going to have to at least think about season 2 now. That was a question mark three weeks ago."
He also called it a very cool problem to have, which, yeah — for a debut project with a weekly, somewhat experimental rollout, this kind of attention is rare. Season 1 started in late October and kept audiences coming back episode by episode, which is not easy to pull off in games.
Why the million matters
Crossing one million sales is not just a pat on the back; it gives AdHoc actual runway to plan more Dispatch. Episodic projects live or die on audience patience and word of mouth, and this one clearly found both. The surprise-hit label fits.
Who is making this, and what else they are juggling
AdHoc is a team with deep narrative chops — several folks, including Herman, came out of the original Telltale Games — and they have a few irons in the fire beyond Dispatch. One is a long-awaited return to a dormant favorite, and the other is a big swing with a massive tabletop fandom. Here is how the lineup breaks down and who is publishing what:
- Dispatch: handled entirely by AdHoc, in-house and self-run.
- The Wolf Among Us 2: still being published by Telltale; a continuation that is very much unfinished business for the AdHoc vets who worked on the original.
- Untitled Critical Role game set in Exandria: being put out by Critical Role Productions.
Given how well Dispatch is doing, you can safely assume it will soak up a lot of their attention in the near future.
A familiar face behind the mask
There is also some fun casting energy here. Breaking Bad alum Aaron Paul has been vocal about wanting to do a game for a while, and this The Boys-adjacent, sharp-edged superhero comedy is the one that finally hooked him. As he put it, "Nothing really felt like the right fit" until Dispatch.
Bottom line: Season 2 is not officially announced, but hitting a million sales turned a maybe into an active discussion. For a first outing from a new studio, that is one heroic start.