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Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a new character-driven adventure from The Last of Us developer, Naughty Dog.
First announced during the Game Awards 2024 with a debut trailer, the fresh franchise is set to draw us into a sci-fi setting thousands of years into the future. Following the journey of protagonist bounty hunter Jordan A Mun, played by Tati Gabrielle who was Nora in The Last of Us season 2, the upcoming PS5 game is promises to be the "wildest, most creative story" from Naughty Dog, with with the "deepest gameplay" yet.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet release date is unknown
Neither Naughty Dog nor PlayStation Studios has revealed the Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet release date or release window. That's likely because it is years away from production.
The studio has confirmed that development started on Intergalactic back in 2020. While it is true that the team typically takes around four years between projects, it's likely that the COVID-19 pandemic has created an elongated production pipeline, which is likely one reason we've seen so many remasters and remakes from the studio of late.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet platforms
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is coming to PS5. Developer Naughty Dog is part of the PlayStation Studios group who sets its sights on building expansive PS5 exclusives.
While it is true that select PlayStation titles have come to PC (including Naughty Dog's most recent releases and remasters of The Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2), they typically arrive years after making their debut on PlayStation platforms. There was no mention of it just yet.
Still, you should also expect some pretty sweet PS5 Pro support, given that Naughty Dog is typically a brand leader for benchmark-setting at Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet trailer
The Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet trailer runs for four minutes and 33 seconds, and truly sets the scene for the upcoming IP. The teaser opens with an alien language from the planet Sempiria that is translated to reveal the harrowing words: "The suffering of generations must be endured to achieve our divine end," talk about ominous.
The trailer then cuts to our protagonist, the bounty hunter Jordan's ship. It turns out that Jordan is on her way to that planet we mentioned earlier, Sempiria, and that said planet also has rumors and dark stories surrounding it. The clip above is stunning, showing us realistic visuals of machinery and beautiful shots of space. It also even gives us a quick look at Jordan facing a robot boss with a great red sword as well.
Everything about the new game looks phenomenal, and we can't wait to see more gameplay reveals and teasers as we head further into 2025.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet gameplay
Naughty Dog is yet to go into detail on the Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet gameplay experience, so all we really have is word from studio head Neil Druckmann. He says that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet "is shaping up to be our wildest, most creative story yet," teasing that the third-person adventure will be set on the planet of Sempiria – "a distant planet whose communication with the outside universe went dark hundreds of years ago. In fact, anyone who's flown to it hoping to unravel its mysterious past was never heard from again."
He went on to say that Intergalactic will contain "the deepest gameplay in Naughty Dog's history, taking our learnings from our previous franchises and pushing them beyond anything we've ever done before."
Ben Hanson, formerly of Game Informer, also teased that the upcoming game will be focused on the concept of "player freedom" during a MinnMax video about Intergalactic. Elden Ring is supposedly a massive inspiration for that concept when it comes to this game, too. This is seemingly backed by a 2023 interview with Druckmann (via journalist Gene Park).
"Some of the best storytelling is in gameplay and moving around the space and understanding a history of the space by just looking at it and examining it. To me, that's some of the best joy I get out of games that trust their audience to figure things out. That's the stuff I'm really intrigued by going forward," Druckman explains regarding his thoughts on Elden Ring.
Now, we aren't saying that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will be an Elden Ring clone. However, it's interesting to know that it's gameplay may be inspired by FromSoftware's mechanics involving interacting with environments and how the games' history is communicated to players.
In an interview with Variety in September 2025, Druckmann was asked if he could expand on the "deepest gameplay" a little more. While he didn't reveal much, what he did have to say is certainly intriguing:
"You could look at our previous titles and see the evolution of going from Uncharted, where we're really cutting our teeth on realistic character-action game, third-person shooter, combined with emotional storytelling," Druckmann said.
"With The Last of Us, we added some RPG elements, we started playing with wide linear layouts. Continue that trajectory forward, add sci-fi and you start to get the sense of what we're doing, and then we've gotten even more ambitious than that. So really looking forward to see how it all comes together. I think you're all going to be pleasantly surprised by it."
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet story
Naughty Dog is keeping the Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet story under wraps, but there is some information that we've been able to glean by studying that stunning reveal trailer. The game is set to introduce a new protagonist, Jordan A. Mun, a bounty hunter who finds themselves stranded on Sempiria – a dangerous planet that claims the lives of all who enter its orbit.
Drawing on the stranded aspect, Druckmann says Intergalactic Heretic Prophet will not only explore faith and religion, but it will also be about being lonely as you find yourself isolated on the planet.
"I really wanted to make a game about faith and religion," Druckmann says, "but also about just being lonely. So many of the previous games we've done – there's always, like, an ally, with you. I really want you to be lost in a place where you're really confused about what happened here."
Jordan is heading to the surface to claim a bounty on Colin Graves, a member of a notorious intergalactic criminal outfit called the Five Aces who terrorized the Bluestar Systems before mysteriously disappearing. It's clear from the reveal that Jordan is hunting these MIA criminals, but whether it's to lay claim to the missing loot or for more personal reasons remains to be seen.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet cast
Some of the Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet cast have been revealed so far, but a few roles still remain a mystery.
The title role of protagonist Jordan A. Mun is played by Tati Gabrielle, who appeared in the first season of The Last of Us as Nora Harris, and played a part in the Uncharted movie adaptation as Jo Braddock.
Tony Dolton, who Neil Druckmann said he "immediately" cast for a role in the upcoming sci-fi adventure following his appearance in the Last of Us tv show, is also set to appear, but we don't yet know what role he'll be playing.
We also know that prolific actor Troy Baker (who's had parts in the Last of Us game as Joel as well as Death Stranding and the follow-up Death Stranding 2) is reuniting with Druckmann with an as yet unknown role in project, and we're still awaiting more information about his part.
In the aforementioned Variety interview from September 2025, Druckmann spoke on Baker, saying that, "Troy [Baker] is in the game, and it's been five years since I've worked with Troy, and I've got to do it again, and it was a lot of fun to be on the stage with him again."
Plus, Eternals actor Kumail Nanjiani is set to play the role of Colin Graves, who's a member of an intergalactic criminal outfit.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet development
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is in development at Naughty Dog, the studio responsible for some of the best PS5 games (and The Last of Us and Uncharted franchises). Studio head and game director Neil Druckmann says that the team has "been working on this brand-new adventure since 2020", meaning that development will have commenced as production on The Last of Us 2 concluded.
Given the success of the HBO Last of Us adaptation, there had been some speculation that Naughty Dog would dive straight back into that world for its next project. Still, it's great to see the studio shift gears into a new IP – its first since it unleashed Joel and Ellie on an unsuspecting world a decade ago.
The development is still in the early stages, as ideas are still being formed and changed. Neil Druckmann revealed during an episode of Sony's Creator to Creator video series back in March 2025 that the team" still have a ways to go."
"Again, these things are so complex and big, and there's so many people involved. It's like, I still don't know exactly what this thing is going to look like at the end," he continued. "I have a theory, I have an idea, but it's still evolving and changing as we're making it."
Following the release of The Last of Us Season 2, Druckmann also spoke with Variety in September 2025 about his decision to leave HBO show for The Last of Us Season 3, and touched on the development of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which he believes will likely be the most expensive game that studio has made to date.
"We're in the thick of it. We're making it, we're playing it. We're firing on all cylinders", Druckmann said. "I've said this before, but I really mean it, I'm really feeling it right now: It's the most ambitious game we've ever made. It's the most expansive game we've ever made, maybe the most expensive, by the time we finish it."
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