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Following the release of 2024’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Swedish developer MachineGames has reiterated its intention to return to the sci-fi WWII shooter Wolfenstein–though when remains to be confirmed.
In an interview with GI.Biz on February 5, studio director Jerk Gustafsson said that the team hasn’t forgotten about William “B.J.” Blazkowicz’s staunch goal of killing Nazis in the alternate-history retelling of World War II.
“Our intention has always been to go back to Wolfenstein,” Gustafsson said. “We wanted to finish the trilogy. And when we do that, that is something that I don’t want to comment on. It can be now, it can be later, but we’re not done with it. That’s what I can say.”
Gustafsson clarified that he’s aware of the need to “justify the business side” of MachineGames projects to MIcrosoft’s leadership. (Microsoft acquired ZeniMax for $7.5 billion in March 2021, putting MachineGames and various other ZeniMax subsidiaries under its umbrella.) He also acknowledged that his aging body has an impact on the number of games he has left in him. However, he said that, with the studio loving to specialize in first-person games, he aims to experiment more within that genre in the future–as long as time
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