Neil Druckmann has revealed more details about the studio’s next game, which is based directly on a topic that people won’t be very interested in.

Druckmann was a guest on the Creator to Creator podcast, where he told Alex Garland (director of Civil War and Ex Machina) that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will delve deep into religion and faith, topics that are full of emotion. The game will take place 2000 years later, with the break from the real world taking place in the late 1980s. Part of the change takes place there, as a new religion emerges. It does not take place on Earth, but on a planet called Sempiria. Our protagonist, Jordan A. Moon, will be adventuring alone (unlike in The Last of Us).

“We made certain creative decisions in The Last of Us: Part 2 that got us a lot of hate. A lot of people love it, but a lot of people hate the game. The joke is, you know what? Let’s do something that people don’t care about as much. Let’s make a game about faith and religion. This religion has become quite prominent, and then we spend years building this religion from the original prophet to how it gets changed and sometimes bastardized and evolves over all these years.

This whole religion takes place on this one planet. And then at some point all communication from that planet stops and you play as a bounty hunter who goes after their bounty and they crash land on this planet. So many of the previous games we’ve done, there’s always like an ally with you. I really want you to get lost in a place where you’re really confused about what happened here, who are the people here, what was their story,” Druckmann said.

Could it be that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (which has no release date yet and is understandably coming to PlayStation 5) will be divisive precisely because it doesn’t want to be divisive? It could happen… time will tell.

Source: PCGamer