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.
PlayStation’s upcoming, under-wraps space blockbuster remains largely a mystery, despite being revealed almost two years ago at The Game Awards in December 2024. We know only fragments of its story, and still have no idea when it will launch.
Speaking at the Comic Creators Block Party 2026, Druckmann said Intergalactic was now moving into its “last stages of production” and that the game was playable, with work now focusing on “refining and polishing.” More intriguingly still, Druckmann described Intergalactic as an amalgamation of three other famous Naughty Dog franchises, with elements included from each.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Screenshots
“We used to have another game franchise called Jak and Daxter,” Druckmann began. “And with this one, we really wanted to take everything we learned from that franchise, which is sci-fi fantasy, the action-adventure stuff we learned with Uncharted, the more kind of serious drama we got for The Last of Us, and it really is a combination of those three franchises.
“We wanted to expand our deep gameplay systems,” he added. “Can we sustain the cinematic storytelling we’re used to doing and go even deeper with gameplay systems?”
From the little that’s been revealed of Intergalactic so far, we know that it will be an alternate universe sci-fi tale starring a bounty hunter stranded on a distant planet in the far future. This bounty hunter is Jordan A. Mun, played by Tati Gabrielle, with her bounty targets played by a roster of famous faces including Tony Dalton, Kumail Nanjiani and Ashley Scott. Naughty Dog regular Troy Baker is also set to appear.
Back in 2025, Intergalactic was reported to still be a couple of years from release, though PlayStation and Naughty Dog have refrained from narrowing its release window officially. That said, Druckmann recently indicated that the game would get a full unveiling at some point in the next 12 months.
If it feels like a while since you’ve played something new from Naughty Dog, arguably PlayStation’s most high-profile studio, you’re not wrong. Naughty Dog’s last all-new release was The Last of Us Part 2, which released back in 2020. The intervening years have seen the studio launch various remasters, and scrap a multiplayer The Last of Us spinoff after years of work.
Intergalactic is just one of several projects in development at Naughty Dog, however, and fans now widely believe a new installment of Uncharted is also in the works.
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