Tuesday, April 14th 2026

New God of War Spin-Off Tipped With New Protagonist and Multiple Other Mythologies

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It seems as though God of War studio, Santa Monica Studio, is slated for a busy time in the coming months and years, with recent rumors suggesting that there is another God of War game on the horizon, some even claiming that it may be announced as soon as April 2026. Not all that much is known about the new God of War game, but according to reporting by MP1st and Tom Henderson on the Insider Gaming podcast, it will not follow Kratos. Instead, the new spin-off, which does not yet have a name, will feature Týr and Faye, the erstwhile Norse god of war and Kratos's deceased wife. This suggests that the spin-off will be a prequel to the recent God of War 2018 and Ragnarök.

The reports make mention of a talking sword, which will apparently be Merlin from English legend, as well as elements from Japanese, Chinese, and possibly other East-Asian mythologies. According to Henderson, the next "mainline" God of War game was meant to be announced at an April Sony State of Play, and it is assumed that the spin-off with Faye will be the next mainline installment in the franchise. This news comes not too long after Santa Monica Studio and Sony announced that a remake of the original God of War trilogy was in the works at Santa Monica.
Sources: Insider Gaming podcast, MP1st

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15 Comments on New God of War Spin-Off Tipped With New Protagonist and Multiple Other Mythologies

#1
tpa-pr
I wonder if this will be PS5 exclusive? There has been talk of Sony pulling back from PC releases, but there's a lot of mixed information so I don't know if its actually true or not.
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Bigshrimp
tpa-prI wonder if this will be PS5 exclusive? There has been talk of Sony pulling back from PC releases, but there's a lot of mixed information so I don't know if its actually true or not.
It will be a PS5 exclusive. Sony isn't publishing PlayStation exclusives on the PC anymore. Simple as that.
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TheinsanegamerN
So......it's not God of War then?

Why not make a new series of games if you are going to change everything about them? Unless of course all this new stuff is gonna suck for the 8,749th time and you have to rely on a previously successful series to fool people into buying trash, ruining the franchise by extension.
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#4
Ols-Hol
multiple mythologies
It's like Xena, gotta assimilate and destroy them all :)
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#5
Prima.Vera
Yeah, let's milk another francize aka Ubisoft's Assassin's Creep...

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#6
scottslayer
Japanese, Chinese, and possibly other East-Asian mythologies.
You forgot to add Egyptian, which was in the one leak.
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#7
Kohl Baas
TheinsanegamerNSo......it's not God of War then?

Why not make a new series of games if you are going to change everything about them? Unless of course all this new stuff is gonna suck for the 8,749th time and you have to rely on a previously successful series to fool people into buying trash, ruining the franchise by extension.
Yeah, let's use the same characters in the same universe and call it something else. Works just fine. :laugh:
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#8
cinemaware
I will pass. Played the new 1st new GoW for a bit and while it's not a bad game I was bored pretty fast by its "follow corridors, solve simple puzzles, fight simple enemies, enter a large area to bossfight" rinse-repeat template. Also having the kid running around made me harken to the good ol' days of simply just brutal combat.
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#9
Vayra86
Ols-HolIt's like Xena, gotta assimilate and destroy them all :)
See now THAT is a game they should be making, using all the latest tech in boob physics + facial mocap for those lovely expressions.
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#10
Onasi
I am still waiting for them to actually make a new God of War game, with Kratos or not, that is actually a proper God of War title. As in - a cinematic character action game. I am not sure why they are so stubborn on abandoning that which made the series popular in the first place. Like, for the past decade what we had was two Souls-adjacent Norse games and a spin-off side scrolling Metroidvania-ish thing that was SoS. None of them were bad games, not really, but not really what I am looking for from GoW.
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#11
TheinsanegamerN
Kohl BaasYeah, let's use the same characters in the same universe and call it something else. Works just fine. :laugh:
But....were not using the same characters. Nor the same universe. That's kinda the point of the article...
cinemawareI will pass. Played the new 1st new GoW for a bit and while it's not a bad game I was bored pretty fast by its "follow corridors, solve simple puzzles, fight simple enemies, enter a large area to bossfight" rinse-repeat template. Also having the kid running around made me harken to the good ol' days of simply just brutal combat.
Agreed. GoW 1-3 were great, and the PSP ones were alright, restrained a bit by the hardware and level design.

The new one sure are pretty, but they're the same kind of generic "action adventure" gameplay we get from so many games these days. It was really boring. Never bought Ragnarok for that reason, and it doesn't look like I missed much.
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#12
TechLurker
Vayra86See now THAT is a game they should be making, using all the latest tech in boob physics + facial mocap for those lovely expressions.
It's from a Western studio, so it's going to undergo the uglification process. Just look at what happened to the models whose likenesses were used for Horizon Zero Dawn, the Fable reboot, and Star Wars Outlaws. In real life, quite pretty, certainly not sexy in the way the model for Stellar Blade's Eve is, but attractive nonetheless. Game version? Ugly as sin (Aloy esp. looking moon-faced in the sequel vs her original design).

And forget about boob physics, there's a high possibility the studio will omit any sexual content that was the norm in earlier GoW series. Which also doesn't bode well for the remakes, where they might also be removed and everyone burqa'd up or undergo uglification too. We can't have that in ultra-violent Western games while we allow sex scenes and nudity in ultra-violent Western series on live TV every few episodes.
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#13
Kohl Baas
TheinsanegamerNBut....were not using the same characters. Nor the same universe. That's kinda the point of the article...
Uhm... I might read it wrong, english is not my first language, but I remember the article mentioning Tyr and Faye from God of War as being the main characters of the next God of War game in the same universe, effectively a prequel to the 2018 title.
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#14
Vayra86
TechLurkerIt's from a Western studio, so it's going to undergo the uglification process. Just look at what happened to the models whose likenesses were used for Horizon Zero Dawn, the Fable reboot, and Star Wars Outlaws. In real life, quite pretty, certainly not sexy in the way the model for Stellar Blade's Eve is, but attractive nonetheless. Game version? Ugly as sin (Aloy esp. looking moon-faced in the sequel vs her original design).

And forget about boob physics, there's a high possibility the studio will omit any sexual content that was the norm in earlier GoW series. Which also doesn't bode well for the remakes, where they might also be removed and everyone burqa'd up or undergo uglification too. We can't have that in ultra-violent Western games while we allow sex scenes and nudity in ultra-violent Western series on live TV every few episodes.
As I like to say... this too, shall pass :) I've come to view this more and more as something very similar to fashion, I mean, its just a matter of cycles repeating because otherwise we get bored shitless (and stop buying ;)). But its also like the economy: ups and downs, with general trend being up - and up is in this case more and more content diversity (which means something for everyone). Alongside all the DEI inspired 'art' you can also see a whole subculture of clearly not DEI inspired 'art' :)
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#15
tpa-pr
Kohl BaasUhm... I might read it wrong, english is not my first language, but I remember the article mentioning Tyr and Faye from God of War as being the main characters of the next God of War game in the same universe, effectively a prequel to the 2018 title.
That's the spin-off title being discussed, yup. I believe there will still be a mainline title starring Kratos (or Atreus?) coming as well.
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