Naughty Dog’s next game is poised to have more “player freedom,” if rumors are to be believed. Frankly, that shouldn’t surprise us too much.
On MinnMax (via VGC), Ben Hanson spreads the word that a source of his divulged a bit of what Naughty Dog is planning, specifically that it will have more “player freedom” than its previous entries. What with game director and studio figure Neil Druckmann admitting to being inspired by games like Elden Ring, this shouldn’t be too hard to believe.
In the end, a brand-new Naughty Dog game isn’t too hard to believe, what with Druckmann denouncing assertions of the studio being stuck as “The Last of Us studio.” As part of that, it’s all-too-possible that this is their first step, after all they already vowed to hold your hand less.
We already knew that it has more than one single player game in the pipeline and a job advert that points to a first-person perspective project. This certainly would be a huge change of pace for the studio, but we’ll have to wait and see if this really is their next project or not.