After five years, PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, a studio led by Brendan Greene, the well-known producer who created “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”, officially released the team’s new work “Prologue: Go Wayback!” today (6th), a game with a super huge map scale. An open world survival game, this game is expected to be released on Steam in 2025.
“Prologue: Go Wayback!” first disclosed the “Prologue” project during the TGA in 2019. At that time, Brendan was still working as a producer under KRAFTON. In 2021, Brendan left his job and established his own company PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, and continued to invest in “Prologue: Development of “Go Wayback!”
According to the promotional video, Brendan explained that “Prologue: Go Wayback!” is designed to test the machine learning-driven terrain generation technology they have developed. Using AI to create millions of maps instantly, it is also the first of three projects they will launch in the future. The project’s final project codename is “Artemis”, which is an undisclosed massively multiplayer online sandbox game.
According to Steam information, “Prologue: Go Wayback!” is set in an unknown and mysterious wilderness. Players only have a dilapidated map and some basic tools. Your task is to find a way to reach the weather station. Whether you survive or not depends on you. action.
The game emphasizes that the climate of the wilderness is rapidly changing, with severe winds and rains or extremely cold blizzards demonstrating the ruthless power of nature. Players need to collect resources and find shelter just like ordinary survival games, while being alert to the threats of wild animals.
It is worth mentioning that because the world of “Prologue: Go Wayback!” is generated by AI machine learning technology, you will face a completely different terrain every time you play.
Although the game does not yet have much actual gameplay, the development screen can give a glimpse of the player character’s backpack space. The concept is similar to that of current survival games.
In the end, “Prologue: Go Wayback!” is still the first step for PLAYERUNKNOWN studio, and “Preface: Undiscovered World” will be the second project later, which will also bring new game technology experiments. In the end, the two works will The results will be integrated into the massively multiplayer sandbox experience of “Artemis”.
The immersive survival game “Prologue: Go Wayback!” developed by PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions is expected to be launched in 2025, but there is no exact time yet. Interested players can add it to the wish list.