Sledgehammer Games Growing an Motion RPG with Deep Lore, It’s Claimed

Sledgehammer Games is greatest identified for creating or contributing to the event of the Call of Duty franchise. The studio began in 2011 with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and most lately assisted the likes of Treyarch and Raven Software on Black Ops 7, launched in the direction of the top of 2025.

But because of a current developer profile on LinkedIn, plainly the studio is (or no less than was) engaged on an ‘unannounced action RPG’ with deep lore and a large-scale world.

It can be like nothing Sledgehammer has ever created.

Is Sledgehammer Making a New RPG?

Sledgehammer Games has been principally a help studio for the previous few years, solely main the best way on a few Call of Duty video games: Modern Warfare III (2023) and Vanguard (2021). Elsewhere, the staff has assisted within the creation of a number of different Call of Duty titles.

It stands to purpose that the studio has scope to create one thing new, however no person had any cash on the corporate’s subsequent sport being an motion RPG.

For reference, the highest motion RPG video games might be something from Diablo to the likes of Fallout, relying on the way you quantify or categorize the time period ‘action RPG’.

In the newest information for Sledgehammer Games, it was decided that the studio was engaged on Nintendo Switch ports for Call of Duty titles, however that tidbit is already months up to now.

This revelation about Sledgehammer’s motion RPG title comes from the profile of a former developer, Ben Wanat. He’s now the Creative Director and co-founder of Lurker Entertainment, however from 2019 to August 2025, he labored at Sledgehammer Games as a Senior Creative Director.

In the blurb for his role at Sledgehammer Games, he wrote:

Creative director for Unannounced motion RPG

• Franchise planning, pitching, hiring, planning
• Directing prototypes, participant mechanics for mechanics-rich design
• World structure, location structure
• Concept and asset creation for cultures, environments, characters
• Lore books for world, cultures, languages

(Thanks to Reddit for the spot)

Otherwise, Wanat solely contributed help to the event of Vanguard and appears to have had no hand in Modern Warfare III, which implies he was probably free to contribute principally in the direction of the unannounced motion RPG sport.

Given the outline of his position, it’s secure to imagine that the sport has/had deep lore, a branching world, revolutionary mechanics, and all-new, fictional cultures, races, and languages.

What do you assume a possible motion RPG from Sledgehammer Games may seem like? Let us know your ideas on the Insider Gaming Discord server.

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