Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann has given a seemingly promising update on the studio's long-awaited Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and offered a fresh tease of what to expect. https://t.co/MGgXd8jg2U pic.twitter.com/02LaHmFDoj
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Naughty Dog’s next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, is in the “last stages of production”, according to Neil Druckmann as reported by IGN. He says it is fully playable and now being polished, ahead of a proper showcase in 2027. This is the most concrete thing the studio has said about it since it was unveiled at The Game Awards in December 2024. In September Naughty Dog told fans to expect silence for the rest of the year and a full reveal in 2027, so this counts as a talkative patch for a studio that had promised to keep quiet.
Here is what is known. It is a PS5 game in which you play Jordan A. Mun, a bounty hunter played by Tati Gabrielle, stranded on Sempiria, a planet that lost contact with the rest of the galaxy centuries ago. The setting is an alternate history in which humanity cracked spaceflight in the 1980s. The game is set about two thousand years after that, which makes it the most optimistic 1980s alternate history since For All Mankind. Druckmann has said that faith and religion are central themes. The studio has invented a prophet and two millennia of scripture to go with them, which will please anyone who has ever wanted footnotes in their space opera. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are writing the music, and the performance-capture shoot wrapped at the end of August.
It is also Naughty Dog’s first new IP since The Last of Us in 2013. Back then the studio swapped Nathan Drake’s quips for fungal misery. This time it is trading fungus for neon, gunfights and theology, a mix last tried with any confidence by a certain Dune-adjacent strand of 1970s paperbacks with chrome lettering on the cover.
There’s still no release date, and “last stages” in AAA development can cover anything from weeks to a geological era. Still, a studio that once told us we’d hear nothing until 2027 has started dropping hints, and the Heretic Prophet has at least started preaching.
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