Naughty Dog’s new release

Naughty Dog’s next big game is still not out: as of April 17, 2026, *Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet* remains listed for PlayStation 5 with its release date “to be confirmed.” (playstation.com) Neil Druckmann announced the game on December 12, 2024, calling it Naughty Dog’s “next game” and saying the studio had been working on the new franchise since 2020. (blog.playstation.com) Sony’s official game page says it is a third-person action-adventure set thousands of years in the future. Players control bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun after she is stranded on the planet Sempiria, where no one has escaped orbit in more than 600 years. (playstation.com) That makes this Naughty Dog’s first new original property since *The Last of Us* debuted in 2013, after a decade in which the studio’s biggest releases were sequels, remasters, remakes, and PC versions tied to *The Last of Us* and *Uncharted*. (blog.playstation.com, naughtydog.com) The public material also points to a familiar Naughty Dog formula in a new setting: a cinematic single-player game, a named lead character, and a story-first pitch rather than a live-service plan. Sony’s page credits Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross with the score. (playstation.com) What has not happened is the “launch” described in some social posts. Naughty Dog’s own news page still lists the December 2024 announcement as the key *Intergalactic* post, and current job listings say the studio is “busy” working on the game. (naughtydog.com, naughtydog.com) The same gap applies to the summer 2027 talk and PlayStation 6 speculation. I did not find an official Naughty Dog or PlayStation source confirming a 2027 target or tying the game to unannounced hardware, and Sony’s official listing still names only PlayStation 5. (playstation.com, blog.playstation.com) There is one verified clue about Naughty Dog’s pipeline beyond *Intergalactic*: reporting in May 2025 said Druckmann confirmed he was involved in a second unannounced game at the studio while another team worked on *Intergalactic*. That establishes multiple projects, but not a release window, platform, or whether the second game is *The Last of Us*, *Uncharted*, or something else. (videogameschronicle.com, eurogamer.net) So the cleanest read on April 17, 2026 is narrower than the hype: *Intergalactic* is real, it is still in development for PlayStation 5, and Naughty Dog appears to have at least one more project in the works. The release date, any summer 2027 target, and any PlayStation 6 connection remain unconfirmed. (playstation.com, naughtydog.com)