Speculation About a Second Naughty Dog PS5 Game Starts to Circulate 1

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is not expected to release until at least 2027, and that’s left Naughty Dog fans feeling disappointed and frustrated. But new speculation has started circulating about a second PS5 project from the first-party studio.

The source seems to stem from entertainment insider DanielRPK, writing on his Patreon. This particular individual does have a track record when it comes to leaking information about movies, but his gaming credentials are less water-tight.

However, there’s nothing really new here. Naughty Dog already said outright that it has “more than one ambitious single player game” in development for the PS5, so this is not exactly a secret.

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In fact, if you trawl through the studio’s enormous staff list on sites like LinkedIn, you’ll quickly realise not everyone is working on Intergalactic.

DanielRPK adds that Uncharted: The Lost Legacy’s Shaun Escayg is leading this second game, which makes sense as he returned to Naughty Dog after a brief hiatus at Crystal Dynamics to work as a Creative Director.

As far as we can tell, Neil Druckmann and Matthew Gallant are leading the studio’s sci-fi project, so Escayg is almost certainly working on something different.

So yeah, based on the information available, we’d say this story is probably true – but with development cycles so ridiculously long these days, don’t expect to be playing whatever this turns out to be for many, many years.

[source patreon.com, via thegamepost.com, reddit.com]