Naughty Dog Confirms Two New Last of Us Games Beyond Part I and II, Pushes Intergalactic Reveal to 2027

By CriticalPixel · 2026-09-29

Naughty Dog capped off The Last of Us Day 2026 with the update fans had been begging for since Grounded II first teased more stories in this universe. Studio co-president Neil Druckmann posted directly on the Naughty Dog blog and confirmed there are two new Last of Us projects sitting in very early development, both set to expand the canon beyond Part I and Part II. He stopped short of naming anything or showing a single frame, but after six years without a mainline follow up to Part II, any confirmation beats silence. The studio also used the day to thank fans for raising over $11,000 during its charity stream for AbleGamers, the accessibility focused nonprofit it has supported for years.

Two Games, Zero Details, and Still No Part 3

Druckmann was careful with his wording, and that carefulness is the whole story here. Both new projects are described as very early, which in game development terms can mean anywhere from a pitch document to a vertical slice, so Naughty Dog gave itself zero obligation to reveal anything soon. What matters is the direction: neither project revisits the events of Part I or Part II directly, meaning the studio is finally willing to move the story forward instead of just remastering what already shipped. It has been more than six years since The Last of Us Part II released in 2020, and the gap has not been kind to fans. The planned multiplayer spinoff, once referred to as The Last of Us Online, got cancelled back in December 2023 after years in development, and that cancellation is still the reference point every new Last of Us tease gets measured against. Fans hoping for an outright The Last of Us Part 3 announcement did not get one either, and IGN's own coverage leaned hard into that disappointment, framing the reveal as everything except what people actually wanted to hear.

Ghost of Yotei Clicker armor front view revealed by Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch

Ghost of Yotei Armor, a Youtooz Figure, and a Sale to Match

The rest of The Last of Us Day 2026 leaned into crossover content rather than new game news. Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog partnered on a Clicker inspired armor set for Ghost of Yotei, unlocking October 1 in the Most Wanted mode and usable afterward in both the base game and the new Echoes of Sekigahara DLC. Collectible company Youtooz is also releasing a limited Bloody Clicker figure, PlayStation and Steam players are getting new The Last of Us themed avatars, and an hour long subway ambience video went live on YouTube for anyone who wants Cordyceps infested background noise while they work. Naughty Dog is pairing all of it with a Steam and Epic Games Store sale starting October 1 at 10 AM PDT, cutting The Last of Us Part 1 by 50 percent and The Last of Us Part 2 by 33 percent, a real discount for anyone who slept on either game the first time around.

Ghost of Yotei Clicker armor back view showing The Last of Us crossover design

Intergalactic Stays Quiet Until 2027

Buried in the same post was an update on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, the sci fi project Naughty Dog first showed off nearly two years ago and has said almost nothing about since. Druckmann called it the studio's most ambitious game yet and said the team is deep in production, but he also set expectations bluntly. Naughty Dog is going quiet on Intergalactic for the rest of 2026, with a full reveal promised for 2027. That is a long wait for a game that already had one teaser drop off the radar, and it puts more pressure on next year to actually deliver something substantial rather than another mood piece trailer. A studio can only tease sci fi ambition for so long before players start asking to see actual gameplay.

New PlayStation and Steam avatars released for The Last of Us Day 2026

Community Reaction Is Mostly Skeptical

Wario64's post sharing the announcement pulled in over a million likes and more than a hundred replies within hours, and the tone in that thread skewed toward doubt rather than excitement. One reply joked that Naughty Dog announcing anything in very early stages is code for a wait measured in years, not months. Another fan wrote that Part II left them disappointed enough that news about games five years out barely registers anymore. A third reply was blunt hostility toward the studio itself, and that response shows how much goodwill Naughty Dog has burned through since the multiplayer spinoff got cancelled. This is not universal negativity, since plenty of replies just wanted more detail, but genuine fatigue shows in how fans are reading a two sentence teaser about games nobody has seen a single image of yet.

Hour long subway ambience video thumbnail from The Last of Us Day 2026

The CriticalPixel Take

Teasing two unannounced games with a single vague sentence is a low risk way to keep a franchise in the conversation without committing to anything, and Naughty Dog knows what it is doing here. The bigger tell is how much weight got put on Intergalactic in the same post. That is the project carrying the studio's next real swing, and pushing its reveal into 2027 after two years of silence is a bet that patience pays off creatively instead of just testing how long an audience will wait around. The Last of Us crossover content is fun for the people already invested, the armor set and the sale are a nice bonus, but none of it changes the fact that the two things fans actually asked about, Part 3 and Intergalactic, both got pushed further down the road.

For now, October 1 is the date worth marking on a calendar since that is when the Ghost of Yotei armor unlocks and the Part 1 and Part 2 discounts go live on Steam and Epic. Everything about the new Last of Us projects and Intergalactic stays a waiting game until Naughty Dog decides to say more, and based on this pattern, that could be a long while yet.