Every new PS5 first party game in development and who’s making them

How many games does Sony actually have in development? (Sony)

If you want to know what new games are coming out for PS5 here’s a list of what each of Sony’s internal studios are working on at the moment.

A lot of PlayStation 5 owners like to criticise the console for not having enough first party games, and it’s not hard to see why. Sony didn’t manage to release a single major blockbuster last Christmas, with the publisher’s only exclusives being Astro Bot (which was critically acclaimed but not a massive seller) and the disastrous Concord.

Sony’s 2025 release schedule is looking just as slim, with the latest State of Play from February 2025 relying almost entirely on third party releases. So, unless you are keenly paying attention to every rumour and piece of news, it’s easy to assume the company has very few games currently in active development.

To get a true idea of the current state of the PlayStation business, let’s run through all of Sony’s internal developers and try to figure out what they’re currently working on and when their next game might be out.

Naughty Dog

While The Last Of Us is still a hot commodity thanks to the TV show, Naughty Dog’s next project is not The Last Of Us Part 3 but rather a new 80s inspired sci-fi IP entitled Intergalatic: The Heretic Prophet.

Its brief reveal at The Game Awards 2024 suggests it will be another third person action game, although maybe one not as reliant on stealth as The Last Of Us and Uncharted. It has no release date, but this will be Naughty Dog’s first wholly original game for the PlayStation 5.

The studio’s PlayStation 5 output has so far consisted of remasters of its PlayStation 4 games (including 2020’s The Last Of Us Part 2) and a full remake of the first The Last Of Us.

Admittedly, Naughty Dog was meant to release a The Last Of Us multiplayer game, after it opted to cut multiplayer from The Last Of Us Part 2. It would’ve also been one of Sony’s many planned live service games, but it was cancelled so Naughty Dog could stick with making single-player games.

Speaking of, Naughty Dog has said it has multiple single-player projects in the pipeline. What any of them are, though, is a mystery, with plenty of rumours/theories pointing to a third The Last Of Us, a fantasy game, and even a new Uncharted.

Santa Monica Studio

Considering Santa Monica Studio has been making almost nothing but God Of War games since 2005, everyone expects the studio to be working on another sequel next. While that’s a fairly safe bet, a God Of War 6 is not guaranteed to be Santa Monica’s next release.

In the wake of 2022’s God Of War Ragnarök, producer Cory Barlog said Santa Monica was working on multiple projects but didn’t say what any of them were. Santa Monica has provided no updates since then, but evidence points to one of them being a new IP, possibly another sci-fi game alongside Naughty Dog’s.

That said, there have been several rumours and theories about new God Of War projects, ranging from a half-sequel to remasters of the original Greek games and even a prequel.

Sucker Punch Productions

After the success of 2020’s Ghost Of Tsushima, a sequel for the PlayStation 5 was all but guaranteed. Sucker Punch didn’t confirm that though, until late 2024, with the sequel sporting the title Ghost Of Yōtei.

Set 300+ years after the first game and featuring a new female protagonist, Ghost Of Yōtei is so far Sony’s only first party exclusive scheduled for 2025. Technically though they never said it was a sequel and it could potentially be a half-sequel in the style of Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Beyond that, there’s nothing to suggest Sucker Punch is working on anything else. There were once rumours of the studio revisiting its Sly Cooper and InFamous franchises, but Sucker Punch shut those down in 2022, adding that no such projects were in development anywhere within Sony.

Bend Studio

Following 2019’s Days Gone, Bend Studio was meant to move onto a new multiplayer IP, with was described as a AAA military shooter. Like many other Sony live service projects, though, it was cancelled before anything more official was shared.

As such, there’s no telling if Bend has anything else to fall back on or if it needs to pitch new ideas to Sony. There was once talk of the studio making a new Uncharted, but staff reportedly wanted to do their own thing, resulting in some leaving and the rest asking to be taken off the project.

Ironically, despite Sony cancelling plans for a sequel, the company does consider Days Gone worthy of getting an updated remaster for PlayStation 5. It comes out in April 2025 and includes new modes that will also be added to the PC version as DLC.

San Diego Studio

San Diego Studio may be the most reliable of the PlayStation studios since it’s very easy to guess what it’s working on. They’ve done literally nothing but make annual MLB The Show games since 2018 and this year’s entry is already set to arrive in March 2025.

This year will mark the series’ departure from (most) last gen systems, as it’s only slated for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch. Otherwise, there’s never been anything to suggest San Diego Studio will work on something other than the baseball games it’s known for.

Insomniac Games

Everyone knows that Insomniac’s next project is its Wolverine game, which was teased back in 2021. It’s the question of when it’ll actually come out – or get a new trailer – that continues to plague the studio.

The project suffered a major setback at the end of 2023, when hackers stole a significant amount of data and leaked details online, including incomplete gameplay footage and plot details.

Insomniac assured the Wolverine game wouldn’t be cancelled as a result, but while there was no mention of a delay, the incident undoubtedly had an effect on its development.

The same hack also unveiled a release schedule for several unannounced Insomniac projects. This included a new Ratchet & Clank, a Venom spin-off, and Spider-Man 3, but Insomniac apparently also had plans for another Marvel game starring the X-Men and a new IP.

It’s very likely these plans have been adjusted or completely changed thanks to the hack. And given how quiet the studio’s been about Wolverine, it wouldn’t be surprising if Insomniac opted to release something else first and keep Wolverine on the backburner for a while longer.

Bluepoint Games

Bluepoint Games was Sony’s go-to for remasters and remakes, with its most recent project being 2020’s Demon’s Souls, which was one of the very first PlayStation 5 exclusives.

After Sony bought the studio in 2021 though, Bluepoint said its next project would be something entirely original. Years went by without any updates, only for it to turn out to be one of Sony’s live service games.

Said game was reportedly a God Of War spin-off, but with its cancellation in January 2025 (alongside Bend Studio’s live service game), there’s no telling if it’s moved onto something else. Maybe Sony will opt to play things safe and stick Bluepoint on another remake, but nothing’s been confirmed.

Haven

With Sony cancelling live service games left and right, it’d be easy to assume Fairgame$, the debut title for Canadian studio Haven (which Sony bought in 2022), would meet a similar fate.

So far, that doesn’t appear to be the case, with insider info claiming internal reactions to Fairgame$ have been positive. Still, Haven must be facing a lot of pressure to succeed, lest it suffer the same fate as Concord developer Firewalk Studios.

Although there was never a release date to begin with, insider Jeff Grubb claimed in his Game Mess Decides podcast that Fairgame$ won’t be out this year and has been pushed back into 2026.

Guerrilla Games

Confirmed through job listings in 2022, rather than any teaser trailer, Guerrilla Games will be expanding its Horizon IP with a dedicated online multiplayer spin-off.

Leaked alpha footage from early 2023 showed its new cartoony art style, but the final product could wind up looking very different, considering Guerrilla has given no real updates on its progress since.

Guerrilla also effectively confirmed a full sequel to Horizon Forbidden West will happen. But with the studio likely focused on the multiplayer game, Aloy’s adventures probably won’t continue until the PlayStation 6 arrives.

Media Molecule

After launching its game creation tool Dreams for the PlayStation 4 in 2020, Media Molecule spent the next four years supporting and updating it. We always expected it would eventually be ported to the PlayStation 5, but that never happened and there were fears the UK studio could be shut down.

Support for Dreams ended in 2023, with Media Molecule confirming it would be working on something new, unrelated to Dreams. There’s no hard evidence to suggest what this new project is, but the studio’s past experience with the LittleBigPlanet games points to something that makes use of user-generated content in some way.

Housemarque

About a year after the launch of Housemarque’s PlayStation 5 debut, Returnal, the studio said its next game would be a new IP rather than a sequel. As of the February 2025 State of Play, we now know that game is titled Saros and will be out in 2026.

While it has no direct ties to Returnal, it is very much a spiritual successor, since it too will be a third person action roguelike. What little info that was shared on the PlayStation Blog suggests it will be a slightly kinder experience than Returnal was but otherwise we know nothing about the game at the moment.

Firesprite

Another studio Sony acquired in 2021, alongside Housemarque and Bluepoint Games, Firesprite has since made the Horizon Call Of The Mountain VR spin-off, but its future is otherwise unclear.

While it was assumed the studio had been bought for its VR expertise, 2022 job listings pointed to one of its future projects being a traditional narrative driven horror game and it was reportedly handling a Twisted Metal reboot too.

The latter has apparently since been cancelled, following layoffs at Firesprite, and there’s no telling if the horror game is alive or not. Plus, according to a Eurogamer report, the studio had already bled away most of its staff, barring one of Firesprite’s founders, after Call Of The Mountain’s launch in 2023.

Executives from Sony’s XDev support studio took over Firesprite and the new leadership was soon criticised for alleged toxic behaviour, although Sony apparently dismissed the complaints.

Polyphony Digital

Ever since Gran Turismo 7’s launch in 2022, Polyphony Digital seems to have been completely dedicated to routine updates, adding new cars, addressing issues, and incorporating a VR mode to coincide with the PlayStation VR2.

The studio did release a free-to-play game entitled My First Gran Turismo in December 2024, but it’s essentially a trimmed down version of Gran Turismo 7, meant to coax people into buying the full game.

As far as new games go, it’s safe to assume Polyphony is doing some work on a Gran Turismo 8. Studio CEO and series producer Kazunori Yamauchi even hinted at it in 2023, but there’s no sign of it launching any time soon.

Its release may also depend on how profitable Gran Turismo 7’s microtransactions are. Sony is unlikely to ever share exactly how much money it makes from them, but if they’re popular enough the publisher may not feel any pressure to push out a sequel until the PlayStation 6 arrives.

Team Asobi

Hopefully, Sony will now view Team Asobi as an important part of the PlayStation business, thanks to the critical success Astro Bot. It may not have sold as well as Sony’s bigger blockbusters, but it garnered a lot of prestige and won no less than four awards at The Game Awards 2024, including Game of the Year.

This has encouraged Sony to pursue more family-oriented games and we’d be shocked if that didn’t include at least one Astro Bot follow-up. The real question is whether Team Asobi’s next project will be another traditional platformer or something else entirely.

It could even return to the VR well based on its experience with Astro Bot: Rescue Mission. Although that’s unlikely considering Sony appears to have lost interest in making its own VR games.

Bungie

Destiny 2’s story may have concluded with it’s Final Shape expansion, but Bungie is still supporting the game, albeit with smaller content updates. No doubt a consequence of The Final Shape’s underperformance and another swathe of layoffs.

In the meantime, Bungie seems to be shifting its focus to its Marathon reboot, another one of Sony’s upcoming live service games, which hasn’t had a meaningful update since its 2023 reveal.

In addition, the studio is assisting NetEase Games with a Destiny mobile spin-off titled Destiny: Rising. It was also supposedly working on another multiplayer game codenamed Gummy Bears – which has been described as a cross between League Of Legends and Super Smash Bros. – but it’s reportedly been taking out of Bungie’s hands and passed to a different, unidentified studio.

Marathon could be a make it or break it moment for Bungie, since there’s been almost nothing but bad news coming out of the studio since it was acquired by Sony in 2022.

Aside from multiple layoffs, missed performance targets, and low morale, there have been concerns of Bungie losing what independence it has and being completely absorbed into Sony, so there’s a lot riding on the game’s success.

Sony is yet to have a single successful live service game since taking Bungie on, with most of its planned projects having been cancelled (Helldivers 2 was published by Sony but not made by any of their internal, first party studios).

This will be the first Marathon game since 1996 (Bungie)

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