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New details about what happened to The Last of Us multiplayer game that never was have emerged, thanks to a former Naughty Dog developer who worked on it.
Speaking to podcaster Lance E. Lee (via Kotaku), developer Vinit Agarwal said that the canceled Last of Us live-service title was almost at “80% completion,” adding that the game was “very, very close to done.” Agarwal, who had worked on Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and The Last of Us Part 2, was the game director for this multiplayer game.
According to Agarwal, Sony had invested in the project after an uptick in online gaming in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. He added that The Last of Us online title “made a lot of progress, and the game was doing really, really well internally.” Studio head and The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann even called the game Naughty Dog’s “most ambitious project” back in January 2023.
But Agarwal said that resources for the game were pulled back as COVID-related restrictions loosened and people resumed in-office work. Eventually, Naughty Dog had to choose between the online title or “the next game that Neil Druckmann was directing.” The online game was canceled
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