PUBG creator unveils its ambitious new three-game plan, starting with Prologue
Nearly five years after teasing his next project, PUBG Battlegrounds creator Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene and his PlayerUnknown Productions team have revealed new details about their ambitious three-game plan. That starts today with the surprising release of Foreword: Undiscovered worlda free tech demo that dynamically generates a massive Earth world for players to explore.
Foreword promises just a taste of PlayerUnknown Productions’ machine learning gaming technology, known as Melba. The tech demo allows players to travel through a 200 million square kilometer world, with dynamic landmarks to visit and a postcard system to document players’ travels. Players’ time in Foreword will inform the developer’s next project, Prologue: Go back! Gameplay data from Foreword will help refine the billions of future worlds Prologuesays the developer, and then the studio’s “end goal” project.
Prologue: Go back! is an upcoming single-player game in the survival genre, PlayerUnknown Productions said in a new video. Prologue gives players “a new map to play on every time you press play” and tasks players with surviving the journey across that dynamically generated map. Players face unpredictable weather and ever-changing landscapes, using resources to survive harsh conditions. They can create and repair shelters and other tools as they fight to reach a weather station and call for help.
While Foreword: Undiscovered world is now available for Windows PC via Steam, Prologue: Go back! will enter early access sometime in the second quarter of 2025, the developer said.
Ultimately, PlayerUnknown Productions plans to deliver a project known as “Artemis,” described by the studio as “the series’ large-scale ‘end goal’ project.” Details about that project are not yet known, but if its predecessors present Earth-sized playgrounds for survival enthusiasts to explore, the studio’s ambitions for the “end goal” must be even greater.
An early look at Prologue: Go back! in screenshot form can be seen in the gallery below.