Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is an action-adventure game set around two thousand years in the future, in an alternate universe where advanced space travel existed by 1986. Veteran bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun becomes stranded on a remote planet, Sempiria, while tracking the legendary "Five Aces" criminal syndicate. For over 600 years, Sempiria has been cut off from outside contact and no one has been able to leave it. In seeking to escape, Jordan discovers information about the history of the planet and its people, and fights hostile, blade-wielding robots.

Naughty Dog began developing Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet for the PlayStation 5 after The Last of Us Part II's release in 2020. Neil Druckmann leads the 250-person team as creative director and writer, alongside game directors Matthew Gallant and Kurt Margenau and narrative director Claire Carré. Intergalactic is set to start a new franchise for Naughty Dog, marking its first original story since The Last of Us (2013). Druckmann considered it the studio's most expansive and ambitious game, and likely its most expensive. The score is composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the former's first full video game soundtrack since Quake (1996).

Druckmann revealed he was working on a new game at Summer Game Fest in June 2022, and later said he was assembling a writers' room to be "structured more like a TV show" than Naughty Dog's previous projects. Most of the development team was moved from The Last of Us Online, which was cancelled in 2023 partly to avoid withholding resources from Intergalactic. Druckmann felt Gallant, Margenau, and Carré "stepped up" during development to allow him to work on the television adaptation of The Last of Us; he stepped away from his creative duties on the series in July 2025, ahead of the third season, to focus on Intergalactic. Shanon M. Ingles joined the writing team in 2025.