Naughty Dog is primarily noted for its work on narrative-focused linear action games in recent years thanks to the success of Uncharted and The Last of Us. Now it seems the studio's next game might be leaning into more open-ended design.

The team over at Naughty Dog have been quite recently, but that might just mean they're working on something big.

Following the announcement of the cancellation of their The Last of Us multiplayer game, Naughty Dog has not shared any information about its current projects. However, new details suggest that their next game is set to be incredibly ambitious.

Naughty Dog ’s next game will reportedly have a significant focus on player freedom. That’s according to MinnMax founder Ben Hanson, who said he’d received some information about the secretive project from “somebody very in the know, who worked on the game”.

According to Hanson, a source “very in the know, who worked on the game,” told him that Naughty Dog's next game would take players by surprise. The source compared the in-development title with another existing game that features “a lot of player freedom,” Hansen revealed on The MinnMax Show last week.