The Legend of Vox Machina: how many seasons will there be? Prime Video has set the endpoint

The five-season plan

• Season 1 — premiered January 28, 2022; 12 episodes. The Briarwoods arc, funded in part by the show's record-breaking Kickstarter.
• Season 2 — January 20, 2023; 12 episodes. The Chroma Conclave attacks, and the hunt for the Vestiges begins.
• Season 3 — October 3, 2024; 12 episodes. The Conclave falls, but the ending teases a far bigger threat: the Whispered One.
• Season 4 — premiered June 3, 2026. The party reunites to go after him — and Delilah Briarwood is back.
• Season 5 — the finale. Announced, written, partly animated. No release date yet.

Why announce the ending in advance?

Because the ending was always known. The series adapts the first Dungeons & Dragons campaign from Critical Role, a story that concluded on stream years ago — the show simply needed enough seasons to reach it. Executive producers Sam Riegel and Travis Willingham, who also voice Scanlan and Grog, put it plainly in the renewal announcement:

"It's so rare for any television series to get to tell a complete story"

Five seasons gets them there, with the Whispered One — Exandria's answer to Vecna — as the closing boss.

When will season 5 actually arrive?

No date exists, and the wait may be long. Riegel told The Direct in June 2026 that the scripts were finished roughly two and a half years ago and some episodes are already complete, but animation, dubbing, and worldwide localization all take time. The gap between seasons 3 and 4 was twenty months. Going by that pace, season 5 lands in late 2027 at the earliest.

For the record: this whole franchise exists because of a 2019 Kickstarter that raised over $11 million — at the time, the most-funded film or TV project in the platform's history.

The backers asked for a cartoon. They're getting five seasons and a spinoff.