Sony revealed God of War Laufey at its State of Play on June 2, presenting more than 20 minutes of gameplay for the next entry in the franchise. It is the first game in the series where Kratos is not the main character. That distinction now belongs to Laufey, his wife, known in the series as Faye.
Faye was a central figure in God of War Ragnarök even in her absence, shaping the events of that game through the plans she left behind. Here she wakes after her funeral to discover those plans are at risk, which sends her into the Everywhen, a transcendent realm above the Norse worlds players have already explored. It is where gods from multiple mythologies converge, and not always peacefully.
Two of those gods are introduced as antagonists: Sekhmet, from Egyptian mythology, and Begtse, a Mongolian deity of war. Both are hostile to Faye’s unexpected arrival. The multi-mythology setting marks a departure from the Norse-focused arc that ran across the 2018 reboot and Ragnarök, and opens the question of whether future games will continue to treat different mythologies as connected terrain.
Deborah Ann Woll reprises Faye after voicing her in God of War Ragnarök. Two new cast members join her. Jack Quaid plays Phranque, a cosmic cube with an earnest personality who becomes an unlikely companion. Perlina Lau plays Rue, the guardian of a powerful sword who eventually allows Faye to wield it. The sword replaces the Leviathan Axe as her primary weapon, which is a deliberate inversion given that Faye was the axe’s original owner.
The combat builds on the over-the-shoulder system from the two previous entries while adding greater aerial mobility. Santa Monica Studio says Faye can transition fluidly between ground and air without interrupting attacks, designed to give her a distinct rhythm from Kratos. Whether that translates into genuinely different gameplay or remains a surface-level differentiation will depend on how the full game handles it.
Sony provided no release window during the reveal. The game is confirmed as a PS5 exclusive with no PS4 version planned. No release year, price, or indication of scope was announced. What was shown appears to be at the production scale of its predecessors, but a single reveal leaves most of those questions open.
For players who followed the Norse arc, the premise offers something the series has not provided before: a chance to play as the figure whose absence shaped everything that came before.