Right now is an exciting time to be a God of War fan with the many projects the franchise has in the works. Prime Video is hard at work on a new God of War TV series, but there’s still no word yet on when it will be released. Ryan Hurst was originally tapped to play Kratos in the show, but after he suffered an injury that would have forced production to pause for months, he was recast with Dave Bautista, who is already almost ready to slot back in as cameras are preparing to roll once again. God of War mastermind Cory Barlog has also confirmed that Santa Monica is working on a new God of War game that will be centered around Kratos, but the franchise has another story to tell before it returns to its original protagonist.
We’re talking, of course, about Laufey, wife of Kratos who was first introduced into the franchise in God of War in 2016. The entire journey of the first God of War reboot game centers on Kratos and Atreus taking Faye’s ashes to the highest peak in all the realms, which they first think is in Midgard before later discovering she was talking about Jotunheim. Earlier this year at one of PlayStation’s State of Play events, Santa Monica took the stage to debut over 20 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay footage from God of War Laufey, and the studio later confirmed that the game would be released in February 2027. However, the official Santa Monica X account confirmed yesterday that the game has since been delayed to May 20, 2027, to give the team time to give it its finishing polishes.
Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in return.
You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.
You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is finding out what is over there.
You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the people are where it all gets complicated.
You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as everybody kept telling you.
There is a silver lining to God of War Laufey’s new delay, which is that it gives fans extra time to finish Grand Theft Auto 6 before it releases. It may seem silly for players to need entire months to finish a game, but just the main story of GTA 6 is confirmed to be around 80 hours, and that isn’t even counting the mountain of side content that Rockstar has planned. People with less time to play video games will now have even more time to finish GTA 6 before the release of God of War Laufey.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of God of War Laufey, which is now going to be released on May 20, 2027.
