At Summer Games Fest, the newly announced Paramount Games Studio has revealed that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin–previously in the works at THQ Nordic’s Black Forest Games–is now in development at Platinum Games.
This isn’t the first TMNT game from Platinum, though we’re hoping that it will be better than the studio’s previous attempt. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan was met with largely negative reviews in 2016, in stark contrast to the studio’s usually excellent action games.
Unlike some of the more family-friendly takes on the TMNT, The Last Ronin takes place in a dark future where the Foot Clan reigns and three out of the four turtles are dead. That leaves the remaining brother to take up the arms of his fallen siblings for one last battle against Shredder’s grandson.
The Last Ronin was originally published in 2020 and it marked the creative reunion of TMNT creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, who collaborated on the story for the first time in decades. The miniseries was scripted by Eastman and Tom Waltz and illustrated by Esau Escorza, Isaac Escorza, Ben Bishop, and Eastman. It proved to be so popular that additional Last Ronin comics have been published and a novelization was released earlier this month.
In 2023, The Last Ronin’s video game was announced and described as a God of War-inspired single-player game. The Last Ronin was also in development as a live-action film before Paramount canceled the project in late 2025.
