When is Judas coming out? Ghost Story Games / Ken Levine’s narrative FPS is wishlisted for PS5, Xbox, and PC — Take-Two places it in a fiscal 2027–2029 band with no official day.
Judas (Ghost Story Games) has no ship day. Mayflower narrative FPS; Villainy system; single-player, no live service. Not BioShock 4. Investor window ~Apr 2027–Mar 2029 is not a Friday.
When Is Judas?
No official premiere day is confirmed. Bookmark this page — we add a countdown as soon as a date is announced.
Judas still has no ship day — Take-Two’s fiscal fog is the only public clock
Ken Levine’s Ghost Story Games revealed Judas at The Game Awards 2022: a single-player narrative FPS on the Mayflower, a colony ship racing survivors toward Proxima Centauri. You play Judas, whose uprising forces shifting alliances among three ideologues — Tom (preserve humanity), Nefertiti (machine perfection), and Hope (extinction) — while a Villainy system can turn ignored allies into powered enemies.
Years later the wishlist pages still lack a Friday. Investor language pointing at fiscal 2027–2029 is the farthest Take-Two will go; it is not a pre-order unlock.
Confirmed: Levine narrative FPS — not BioShock 4 and not a 2025 leftover
Early Take-Two chatter once floated “by March 2025”; that fence is dead. Confirmed now: multiplat current-gen + PC, self-published Ghost Story label, story-first single-player posture, ongoing hiring / blog crumbs (including Villainy talk). Not confirmed: a quarter, a Collector’s Edition, or that Narrative LEGOs GDC dream ships exactly as pitched in 2014.
From Narrative LEGOs talk to a still-empty Mayflower calendar
- 2014 — Levine’s GDC “Narrative LEGOs” talk seeds the ambition.
- Ghost Story founding — Irrational alumni rebuild under Take-Two.
- Dec 2022 — Judas named at TGA; PS5 / Xbox / PC wishlists open.
- 2023–2025 — Soft windows slip; Levine keeps “working every day” comments alive.
- 2026 investor materials — broad FY2027–FY2029 placement (approx. Apr 2027–Mar 2029).
- Official ship day — not announced.
How to tell a real Judas date from BioShock folklore
- Needs Ghost Story / Take-Two IR or a storefront with a day.
- Needs the title Judas — “BioShock successor” blogs are genre talk, not SKUs.
- Fiscal-year bands are planning ranges, not midnights.
- Cloud Gaming / Game Pass rumors are unconfirmed until printed.
- Until those appear, leave the calendar blank.
Villainy flips ignored allies into boss problems — that is the pitch, not another Rapture tour
Most “spiritual BioShock” trailers sell a city and a twist. Judas sells a social failure mode: neglect Tom, Nefertiti, or Hope and Villainy can rewrite them into threats with new powers. The Mayflower becomes a pressure cooker of ideology, not a walking museum of Art Deco plasmids.
That systems sentence is why this page refuses a fake Friday. Until Ghost Story stamps a day, the interesting countdown is whether Narrative LEGOs ever ships — not which fiscal quarter Take-Two parked the slide.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this release date.
1When does Judas release?
No official day. Take-Two’s investor materials have placed Ghost Story Games’ Judas in a broad fiscal band spanning roughly April 2027 through March 2029 — a planning window, not a storefront Friday. Wishlist on Steam / Epic; leave fake 2026 countdowns blank.
2Who is making it, and on which platforms?
Ghost Story Games — Ken Levine’s studio after Irrational — develops and self-publishes under Take-Two. Platforms announced at The Game Awards 2022: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.
3Is this BioShock 4?
No. Judas is a new sci-fi narrative FPS set aboard the Mayflower colony ship, not a numbered Rapture / Columbia sequel. Levine’s BioShock DNA is the marketing shorthand; the SKU title is Judas.
4Will it be live-service or full of DLC gates?
Levine has said it is a traditional single-player buy-once story game with no online live-service component — “you buy the game and you get the whole thing.” Treat monetization rumors as noise until Ghost Story’s store page says otherwise.
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