Ghost of Tsushima 2 Confirmed as Ghost of Yotei at State of Play, Releasing 2025

Ghost of Tsushima is officially getting a sequel titled Ghost of Yotei, it was confirmed during today’s Sony State of Play presentation. It’ll arrive sometime in 2025.

It was the big announcement to close out the State of Play, and one of the biggest surprises. Developer Sucker Punch showed off a significant look at footage too, including some gorgeous cinematics. And if you couldn’t glean from the title, it’ll focus on a brand-new protagonist, Atsu, moving away from Ghost of Tsushima’s Jin Sakai.

Sucker Puncher didn’t reveal too much during the presentation, but we got a little more insight thanks to a PlayStation blog post shortly after. According to the post, the developer “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.”

“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,” the post continues. “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.”

Unabashedly inspired by the works of Akira Kurosawa (to the point where the game even included a “Kurosawa Mode”) and other samurai films, Ghost of Tsushima followed a samurai on a quest to protect Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. It released for the PlayStation 4 in July 2020 followed by a multiplayer mode, Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, that October. A Director’s Cut was released for PS4 and PS5 in 2021, and a PC port finally arrived last year.

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