Judas could be years away as Take Two lists Ken Levine’s next game for a later release window

Judas, the next game from BioShock creator Ken Levine, may still be years away from release. Take Two’s latest quarterly report lists the Ghost Story Games title in a launch window that runs from April 2027 to March 2029. If the game arrives near the end of that period, it could spend around 11 years in development.

The update gives a clearer but still broad timeline for a project that has been watched closely because of Levine’s history with BioShock and System Shock 2. Judas was officially revealed at The Game Awards in 2022, but its design ideas go back much further. Levine discussed his “Narrative LEGOs” approach as early as 2014, describing a system where smaller narrative pieces could combine in different ways based on player behavior.

Judas is built around choices that change how key characters react to you

Judas is set aboard the Mayflower, a city sized generation ship carrying what remains of humanity toward Proxima Centauri. You play as Judas, a mysterious woman who has triggered a revolution aboard the ship. The story focuses on survival, trust, betrayal, and the choices you make while dealing with three major figures who control different parts of the ship’s future.

Those three characters are Tom, Nefertiti, and Hope. Tom wants to preserve humanity as it is. Nefertiti wants to reshape humanity into flawless robots. Hope wants to be deleted from existence. Your relationship with each of them can shift depending on your decisions.

A key system called Villainy adds pressure to those choices. If you ignore one of the major characters, that character can turn against you and gain new powers that work against your goals. This fits the broader design idea behind Judas, where the story is meant to feel reactive rather than fixed.

The long development time suggests that Ghost Story Games is still working through an ambitious structure. Judas is not being pitched as a simple spiritual successor to BioShock, even though the connection is easy to understand. Its main focus appears to be a branching narrative system where repeated playthroughs can feel different.

That ambition may explain why the game has taken so long. Still, the new release window means players may need to wait much longer before they can see whether Levine’s design philosophy works as a full game.