Matthew Mercer

American voice actor

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2025 Voices multiple anime and video game characters including Chance in Date Everything!, Film Man in Dead Take, and Kagaya Ubuyashiki in Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles 2.
2025 Mercer voices Goro Majima in two games: Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii and Yakuza 0 Director's Cut, continuing his association with the Yakuza game series.
2025 Matthew Mercer continues his prolific voice acting career, voicing multiple characters in various video games across different franchises including Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero, Avowed, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition.
2025 Continues voice acting in multiple anime and video game franchises, including roles as Lao in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, Chance in Date Everything!, and Kagaya Ubuyashiki in Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles 2
2025 Matthew Mercer reprises his role as Goro Majima in 'Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii'
2025 Matthew Mercer plays the character Sargamis in the 'Avowed' video game
2025 Matthew Mercer voices Espio the Chameleon in 'Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds'
2025 Mercer continues his voice acting in anime game adaptations, voicing Kagaya Ubuyashiki in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2
2025 Voices Marvel characters Nova and Annihilus in Marvel Cosmic Invasion
2025 Mercer continues his voice work in multiple video game franchises, voicing characters such as Lao in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition and reprising Goro Majima in Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
2025 Mercer appears as himself in an episode of 'Game Changer' titled 'Fool's Gold', performing in the Dimension 20: On a Bus segment
August 2025 Announced transition from Game Master to player in Critical Role's fourth campaign, with Brennan Lee Mulligan taking over as Game Master.
2025 Matthew Mercer is noted to be playing the role of Essek Thelyss and other characters in an unspecified production
2025 Developed Daggerheart, a new tabletop role-playing game, continuing his innovative work in game design.
2025 Matthew Mercer serves as game master for an 8-episode actual play limited series using the Age of Umbra campaign frame and Daggerheart roleplaying game system
2025 Matthew Mercer voices Olivier Lenheim in Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter video game
2025 Matthew Mercer voices Olivier Lenheim in Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga video game
2025 Matthew Mercer returns as Goro Majima in Yakuza 0: Director's Cut video game
2025 Matthew Mercer to voice Lao in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
2025 Matthew Mercer to voice Chance in Date Everything! video game
2025 Mercer appears in two upcoming projects: Exandria Unlimited: Divergence (playing Garen for 4 episodes) and Lost Odyssey: Godfall (playing Ghentros in a charity special to support Extra Life)
2025 Matthew Mercer is set to narrate and voice characters Shaun Gilmore and Craven Edge in 'Critical Role: Vox Machina - Stories Untold'
2025 Scheduled to voice characters in multiple video game titles including Valvatorez in Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero, Goro Majima in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and Olivier Lenheim in Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga and Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
2024 Served as a consultant on the Dungeon Master's Guide for the revised 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
2024 Voiced multiple characters in upcoming video game releases including Goro Majima in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Vincent Valentine in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Kagaya Ubuyashiki in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Sweep the Board
2023 Matthew Mercer serves as Game Master for 3 episodes of Candela Obscura, an actual play web series using the Illuminated Worlds system
2023 Matthew Mercer voiced multiple characters in the animated film 'Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match', including roles as Ethan and a Bully
2022 Published two tabletop role-playing game books: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn and Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep.
2022 Matthew Mercer voiced Lucien Tavelle and additional voices in 'Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – The Nine Eyes of Lucien'
2022 Published Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn through Darrington Press, a revised and expanded edition of the original campaign setting. The book was nominated for the 2022 ENNIE Awards in the 'Best Setting' category.
March 2022 Served as a consultant on the Dungeon Master's Guide for the revised 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
March 2022 Reprised his role in the two-part special Exandria Unlimited: Kymal.
March 15 2022 Released Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep adventure module as a lead designer, in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast.
June 2021 Appeared as a player in Exandria Unlimited, a Critical Role spinoff series, from June to August.
2020 Published Explorer's Guide to Wildemount through Wizards of the Coast, officially establishing Exandria as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting.
October 2020 Became creative advisor for Darrington Press, Critical Role's board and card game imprint.
2019 Matthew Mercer begins appearing in Dimension 20 campaigns, playing roles including Kraz-Thun/Leiland in Escape from the Bloodkeep and 'Unlucky Jack' Brakkow in Pirates of Leviathan, and also serving as Dungeon Master for The Ravening War campaign
2019 Mercer voices Falco in the Netflix series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
2019 Mercer voices the character of God in Season 3 of Fruits Basket
2019 Mercer voices Taro Sakamoto in the Netflix series Sakamoto Days
2019 Mercer voices Yusuke Kitagawa in Persona 5: The Animation
2019 Matthew Mercer begins narrating the Netflix Ultraman series, also voicing Bemular and other characters
2019 Mercer plays multiple roles in Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045, including Nameless, Agents, and a US Embassy Staffer
November 2019 Amazon Prime Video acquired streaming rights to The Legend of Vox Machina animated series, with Mercer reprising roles as Sylas Briarwood and other characters.
April 2019 Matthew Mercer voiced Yusuke Kitagawa in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate through Joker DLC
January 2019 Left the Geek & Sundry network with the Critical Role cast and established Critical Role Productions, where he serves as chief creative officer.
2018 Mercer publicly revealed his struggles with body dysmorphic disorder, openly discussing his challenges with physical self-perception.
2017 Served as the Dungeon Master for Nerdist's CelebriD&D show, featuring D&D-playing celebrities in mini-campaigns.
2017 Mercer publicly discussed his personal experiences with sexuality and gender expression, sharing that while heterosexual, he has been attracted to men in the past and experienced homophobia during his youth.
2017 Published the Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting through Green Ronin Publishing, introducing his homebrew world of Exandria.

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