Judas Shows Off New Gameplay Footage At State Of Play

Two years ago, BioShock creator Ken Levine announced a brand-new game called Judas from his studio Ghost Story Games, founded in 2017. At today's State of Play, we got an even better look at the gameplay, but there's still no sign of a release date. However, it did confirm that it's "currently in development for PS5."

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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said last year that the game is slated to launch before March 2025, so we at least have a release window. He added that he was "optimistic" about sticking to that time frame, but until we're given a concrete date, we can only speculate.

We founded Ghost Story Games to build upon the legacy of System Shock 2, BioShock, and BioShock Infinite. With Judas, we've created an entirely new world and set of characters while exploring different approaches to single-player, narrative first-person shooters.

"We feel really stable right now. I feel great about our upcoming schedule," Zelnick said. "Of course, there's always the possibility of some slippage but the teams seem to be functioning really well and I'm optimistic about delivering great titles to the marketplace on an ongoing basis."

Judas is described as a "single-player, narrative first-person shooter" with a lot of BioShock trappings. We see magical abilities, like lightning, a green pixelated whip, frost powers, and incineration, hurled from the player's left hand as they fire off guns with their right, all set to the backdrop of a grungy retrofuturistic world. The underwater city of Rapture has been swapped out for a spaceship called Mayflower.

A disintegrating starship. A desperate escape plan. You are the mysterious and troubled Judas. Your only hope for survival is to make or break alliances with your worst enemies. Will you work together to fix what you broke - or will you leave it to burn?

We - in the shoes of Judas - must decide whether to "fix what [we] broke, or leave it all to burn". Aside from that, there isn't much else known about the story, though the new trailer did give us a further look at the world, with decaying robots, men in horse masks, cowboys, giant android dogs you can get inside of, and your typical bandits. We also venture out into space and bump into a corpse.

While Judas is in development for PS5, it's also slated to launch on Xbox Series X/S and PC.

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