After the "hate" directed at The Last of Us Part 2, Naughty Dog boss says next game is about the entirely uncontroversial topics of "faith and religion"

Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann has shared more details of the studio’s all-new next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet was announced at the end of last year, with a trailer which featured a retro futuristic energy and introduced us to Tati Gabrielle’s bounty hunter, Jordan A Mun. Other than that, details remained relatively slim on what this game would really be about.

Now, however, Druckmann has shed more light on the studio’s sci-fi title, and joked it was a game about religion that will surely get less hate than the divisive The Last of Us Part 2 did on its debut.

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“With The Last of Us 2, we made certain creative decisions that got us a lot of hate. A lot of people love it, but a lot of people hate that game,” Druckman said during a chat with 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, to which Garland replied: “Who gives a shit.”

“Exactly. But the joke is like, you know what, let’s do something that people won’t care as much about. Let’s make a game about faith and religion,” Druckmann quipped.

The Naughty Dog head revealed he has been working on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet for four years now, and confirmed the upcoming release won’t be set on Earth. “It takes place 2000 years in an alternate future that deviates in the late 80s,” he shared.