Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog’s upcoming action-adventure game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, is planned for release in 2027, based on a new report.
Game journalist Jason Schreier took to gaming enthusiast forum Reset Era to respond to a fellow member, who brought up the former’s earlier comment regarding the release window for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet prior to its announcement at The Game Awards 2024. As per his understanding, the game won’t see the light of day before the year 2027.
Shcreier clarified his earlier statement from before The Game Awards 2024, saying he had mentioned back then that both Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and CD Projekt’s The Witcher 4 were very early teases, and that neither game will be out next year in 2026. This suggests that Naughty Dog’s next title will likely arrive in store shelves sometime in 2027. The studio has yet release a new title that isn’t a remake or a remaster thus far during the PS5 console generation. As such, despite some development time being wasted on The Last of Us: Factions project, the game is likely to be in an advanced stage of production.
During an interview from December, 2024, Naughty Dog president and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet co-director Neil Druckmann revealed that over 250 Naughty Dog employees have worked on the upcoming title over the past four years. He said that the studio is only starting to lift the curtain on the action-adventure title. During an earlier online panel, he had stated that the game had been in development since 2020. He further mentioned that Sony Interactive Entertainment has given him full control over the creative side of things.
More recently, Druckmann shared that, unlike Naughty Dog’s previous titles, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet won’t feature NPC companions. He wants the player to feel lost in a place they have no idea about, and to wonder what happened on Sempiria, who its inhabitants are, and what their history is. As per the narrative, no one has heard from the planet in 600 years, and the game’s protagonist, Jordan A. Mun, must figure out what happened if she hopes to escape.
