The Last of Us Developer Naughty Dog Working on a Second, Unannounced Game Other Than Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Neil Druckmann Confirms

Naughty Dog main Neil Druckmann has revealed the workplace has a secret, unannounced 2nd crippled successful the works different than Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

In an interrogation with the Press X to Continue podcast, Druckmann discussed his ongoing roles astatine Sony-owned Naughty Dog. On Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Druckmann works with 2 crippled directors: Matthew Gallant and Kurt Margenau, and is co-writing the crippled with communicative manager Claire Carré. Druckmann did not accidental which manager is moving connected the 2nd game, however.

“There’s different crippled that’s being worked connected astatine Naughty Dog wherever I americium much of a shaper relation and I get to mentor and ticker this different squad and springiness feedback and beryllium similar the enforcement successful the room,” helium said.

“I bask each those roles, and the information I leap betwixt 1 to the next, it makes my occupation precise breathtaking and ever feeling fresh. I’m ne'er bored.”

It is unclear astatine which signifier each crippled is successful production. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is announced, truthful you’d ideate it’s further along. But what is the 2nd game?

There are immoderate evident candidates. Could it beryllium The Last of Us 3? Druckmann has expressed his uncertainty successful the past astir being capable to marque the game, but has said helium has an ending successful caput for what the crippled would be. Based connected Druckmann’s comments astir having much of a shaper relation connected this enigma 2nd game, it doesn’t dependable similar it’s The Last of Us 3, arsenic you’d ideate he’d privation to beryllium heavy progressive and instrumentality connected a manager relation for that game.

Alternatively, it could beryllium different Uncharted game. There hasn’t been a marque caller Uncharted crippled since 2017’s The Lost Legacy. Could it yet beryllium clip for a return? And there’s ever a accidental this 2nd crippled could beryllium a marque caller intelligence property, arsenic Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is.

It’s worthy noting that there’s ever a accidental this 2nd crippled ne'er comes out, oregon is ne'er decently revealed by Sony. Naughty Dog has endured a tumultuous clip successful caller years, with the cancelation of its The Last of Us multiplayer crippled to absorption connected single-player games coming amid an evident pull-back of unrecorded work titles astatine Sony.

Naughty Dog stopped improvement connected The Last of Us Online successful December 2023, saying it would person needed to enactment each its resources into post-launch contented for years to travel — an attack that would person severely impacted its quality to make aboriginal single-player games.

Historically, Naughty Dog has struggled to enactment connected 2 large games astatine the aforesaid time, with 1 tending to extremity up apical of the histrion internally. The workplace hasn’t released a marque caller crippled since 2020’s The Last of Us 2, with remakes and collections successful the interim.

Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog is moving connected a 2nd game. Photo by Rich Polk/Deadline via Getty Images.

As for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, it features a star-studded formed that includes Tati Gabrielle from the Uncharted movie arsenic protagonist Jordan A. Mun, and Kumail Nanjiani of Marvel's Eternals arsenic a antheral called Colin Graves. It is not expected to merchandise until 2027 astatine the earliest. It’s a beauteous agelong wait, but speaking to IGN connected the reddish carpet up of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere, Druckmann said that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is not lone playable close now, but “really good.”

“I volition accidental we are playing it astatine the bureau and it's incredible,” Druckmann teased. “It's truly good. I'm truthful excited to yet enactment gameplay retired into the satellite and amusement radical astir it, due to the fact that we conscionable showed you the very, very, precise extremity connected the iceberg. The crippled goes beauteous heavy beyond that.”

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