The Last Of Us Future Officially Confirmed By Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann

It's now been six years since the original release of "The Last of Us Part II." With the game never receiving any story DLC, that remains the most recent content we've gotten for the franchise apart from "The Last of Us" remakes, remasters, and, of course, the HBO adaptation. Fans have spent most of that time wondering if we'll ever see another "TLOU" game, with developer Naughty Dog typically being cagey and vague about the whole thing — even during the annual "The Last of Us" Day events that are built entirely around celebrating the post-apocalyptic game franchise.

But that all changed with 2026's installment in the annual celebration. In addition to using the event to announce "TLOU"-themed DLC for "Ghost of Yōtei," series co-writer and co-director Neil Druckmann finally made mention of "TLOU" projects (plural) that are in the works and will "expand the canon" of the first two games. That being said, Druckmann did not explicitly state that the projects were video games, but given that he's already distanced himself from the HBO show, if it is something besides a video game, it definitely won't be connected to that. 

Elsewhere in the blog post that Neil Druckmann released to coincide with "The Last of Us" Day 2026, he mentioned that Naughty Dog has been pretty quiet of late because the team has been hard at work on its next game. Of course, we know that game is "Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet," the upcoming sci-fi epic that was first revealed in 2024. He reiterated that this blog post would likely be the last anyone hears from him or anyone else at Naughty Dog in a major way for the remainder of 2026.

That said, Druckmann noted 2027 will mark a shift in Naughty Dog's radio silence as of late. A big part of that will be finally revealing what "Intergalactic" really is, beyond just the teaser that provided very little information about what fans can expect. Here's hoping that this all happens fairly soon into 2027, and that we don't have to wait all the way until something like Summer Games Fest — or worse, The Game Awards, which don't happen until December — to finally get our first real look at "Intergalactic" or whatever else Naughty Dog has in store.