The next game from Arkane founder Raphaël Colantonio is a first-person ‘retro sci-fi RPG’

Arkane founder Raphaël Colantonio has begun teasing his next game, which is described as a first-person “retro sci-fi RPG”.

Colantonio and Julien Roby, a former executive producer at Arkane, announced in 2019 that they’d left the celebrated developer to form a new outfit called WolfEye Studios.

The pair are currently pitching the studio’s second game at GDC in San Francisco, Colantonio said on X, where he posted a couple of tweets confirming its genre.

Pitching new game at GDC with @roby_julien 👀 pic.twitter.com/TFu1bid2LI

— Raphael Colantonio (@rafcolantonio) March 19, 2024

“Retro sci-fi FPS” can be seen on a monitor in one image, and on a whiteboard in another, which also confirms it’s a first-person game.

Colantonio spent 18 years at Arkane, during which he served as president and co-creative director at the studio behind games including Dishonored, Prey, Arx Fatalis, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

Roby was at Arkane for 11 years, and more recently worked as a producer on Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Mafia 3 before leaving 2K to co-found WolfEye.

The studio’s debut title, Weird West, was released in March 2022. The dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West is a top-down action RPG and immersive sim that earned scores of 76 (PC), 73 (PS4) and 81 (Xbox One) on review aggregation site Metacritic.

Sneak Peek into our Austin office where we are hard at work on our next game. 👀 @lucasloredo @stevenandgames pic.twitter.com/o7aiwITn4R

— Raphael Colantonio (@rafcolantonio) March 20, 2024

It was announced last May that WolfEye had secured investment from venture capital firm Galaxy Interactive.

CEO Roby said at the time: “Our partnership with Galaxy will allow us to maintain our independence, while also allowing us to get more ambitious with our next game – which is a dream situation to be in!”

“The company will spend the next months expanding their talented development team and will continue to develop a prototype for an ambitious new IP, which is yet to be announced,” WolfEye added.