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

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.

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. 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.

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. 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 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.