Quick answer: Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is in its “last stage of production,” according to Neil Druckmann. The team can play the full game and is now refining and polishing it, and gameplay plus more story will be shown in 2027. There is still no release date. Current as of November 12, 2026.
Naughty Dog’s next game is further along than its long silence suggested. Studio head Neil Druckmann made a surprise appearance on Revenge Of TV’s Comic Creators Block Party 2026 livestream on November 7, and told host Patton Oswalt that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is close to the finish line. A clip resurfaced on social media this week, and outlets including Push Square, GamesRadar+ and Kotaku picked it up on November 12. We went back to the original stream on Revenge Of’s YouTube channel to check his exact words.
What Druckmann said
“We’ve only teased it, so I can’t talk too much about it, but we’re kind of like at the last stage of production where we can play it and we’re refining it and polishing it, and I can’t wait to show it to the world,” Druckmann said, about three hours into the stream.
When Oswalt pushed for a tease, he added: “We’re going to show a lot of it next year. We’re going to show gameplay, more of the story. I think they’ll really surprise people, what they think the game is and what it actually is.”
What else we learned
- Three franchises in one: Druckmann called it “a combination” of Jak and Daxter‘s sci-fi fantasy, Uncharted‘s pulp action and The Last of Us‘s serious drama.
- Deeper systems: the goal is to keep Naughty Dog’s cinematic storytelling while going “even deeper with gameplay systems.”
- Anime roots: he named Akira and Evangelion as big influences, for their philosophical ideas as much as their style, and said the team wants to take players on a similar “wild ride.”
- A big, secret cast: beyond Tati Gabrielle as Jordan A. Mun, Tony Dalton and Kumail Nanjiani, Druckmann said much of the cast will stay hidden so players are surprised in the game.
What we already knew
Sony and Naughty Dog revealed Intergalactic at The Game Awards in December 2024 as a PS5 game in development since 2020. Players control bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun, stranded on the planet Sempiria, which has been cut off for hundreds of years. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are scoring it.
Our take
“Last stage of production” is not a release date, and Druckmann never gave one. But a fully playable build in polish, plus a promise to show gameplay and story next year, is the clearest signal yet that Naughty Dog is lining up a 2027 marketing push. Studios usually show gameplay when launch is in sight, so a 2027 release now looks realistic, even if nothing is confirmed. If you are tracking PlayStation’s big year ahead, our look at PS5 passing 100 million units shows how large the audience waiting for it has become.
Sources: Revenge Of TV, Comic Creators Block Party 2026 livestream (November 7, 2026), with reporting from Push Square, GamesRadar+ and Kotaku. Announcement details: PlayStation Blog and Naughty Dog (December 12, 2024). Image: official Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet key art, Sony Interactive Entertainment / Naughty Dog, via PlayStation.com.
