Ghost of Yōtei, a sequel to 2020 Sucker Punch samurai game Ghost of Tsushima, was announced with a trailer (embedded above) during today’s Sony State of Play livestream.
Ghost of Tsushima came to PC this year in a Director’s Cut edition, and we gave it an 81% in our review, calling it “a thrilling and engaging samurai epic.”
Given that it took a few years for the last game to make its way to our platform, don’t expect to be playing Ghost of Yōtei on PC in 2025, when its PS5 launch is due. But we should have it before 2030, if recent tradition holds.
“When we set out to make a new Ghost game, we wanted to maintain the core pillars established in Ghost of Tsushima: playing as a wandering warrior in Feudal Japan, offering freedom to explore at your own pace, and highlighting the beauty of the world,” said Sucker Punch Productions communications manager Andrew Goldfarb on the PlayStation Blog.
“We also wanted to continue to innovate. To create something fresh but familiar, we looked beyond Jin Sakai’s story and the island of Tsushima, and shifted our focus to the idea of the Ghost instead. At Sucker Punch we love origin stories, and we wanted to explore what it could mean to have a new hero wearing a Ghost mask, and uncovering a new legend. This led us to Ghost of Yōtei: a new protagonist, a new story to unfold, and a new region of Japan to explore.”
