After having released Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, developer Ninja Theory is now seemingly working on an entirely new project. A post on its official Instagram account shows off the team looking at a blurred-out screen that might be a tease for its next game.
While not much in the way of details can be gleaned from the picture, the blurry screen does indicate that the new project would have a more vibrant colour palette than what we saw from Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, which largely kept to darker, moodier colours to better exemplifies its core themes and violent story.
With the release of this picture, speculation has begun in the comments section of the Instagram post, with fans of the studio guessing that the tease might be for anything from a return to classic action-adventure games from Ninja Theory’s history like Heavenly Sword and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, to even some wild theories like a follow-up to 2013’s DmC: Devil May Cry, which featured an entirely new take on Capcom’s stylish combat franchise.
It is worth noting that, right as Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 was about to come out, rumours started circulating that the next project by Ninja Theory had already been greenlit. Unfortunately, no official announcement has been made yet from either Ninja Theory or Microsoft.
In the meantime, more recent rumours indicate that the studio might also be working on porting Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 over to the PS5. The game, originally released on PC and Xbox Series X/S, would join other Xbox titles like Sea of Thieves and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in expanding its audience by coming out on Sony’s console.
Ninja Theory is also reportedly working on another title, dubbed Project: MARA. It’s an experimental horror game that has an emphasis on photorealistic visuals, and “real-world and grounded representation of mental terror.” However, no new details about Project: MARA have been revealed since 2021.
In the meantime, check out our review of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.
