Naughty Dog Working on New The Last of Us Projects, Druckmann Says

Neil Druckmann announced on the Naughty Dog blog that the studio is working on more The Last of Us content, saying there are a couple of very exciting new projects in very early stages. According to gamedeveloper.com, the announcement was posted on Monday.

Druckmann said the projects will expand the canon of The Last of Us beyond Part I and Part II. Naughty Dog has not shared whether the projects are standalone games or expansions for existing titles.

Druckmann also said Naughty Dog would not return to The Last of Us unless it had something meaningful to say, and that the studio is heads down on what is shaping up to be its most ambitious game yet.

Naughty Dog will fully reveal Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet in 2027. In August, the studio announced it had wrapped up its very ambitious Intergalactic cinematic shoot.

Earlier The Last of Us plans

Naughty Dog previously worked on The Last of Us Online, a live service version set in the original games' world, and officially scrapped it in 2023. The Last of Us Part II was released in 2020; in 2019, Druckmann posted on social media that Naughty Dog had wrapped its most ambitious cinematic shoot ever, for that game.

Since The Last of Us Part II's release, Naughty Dog has vowed to eliminate crunch, according to quality assurance lead Patrick Gross in the studio's self-made documentary. In December, Bloomberg reported that Naughty Dog crunched to meet a deadline for an Intergalactic demo.