Fumito Ueda's genDESIGN Announces Open-World Robot Game gen ATLAS
The announcement confirms that Ueda is applying his signature scale-contrast gameplay-small characters against massive entities-to an open-world structure with giant robots, a format his studio has not attempted before.
Reporting from 7 sources: Anime News Network, 4Gamer.net, GAME Watch (Impress), Denfaminicogamer, and 3 more.
Fumito Ueda's studio genDESIGN officially announced its next title, gen ATLAS, during the Summer Game Fest 2026 livestream on June 6. The game is an open-world action-adventure set on a forsaken planet where players awaken without knowing why. The world is dotted with massive structures, abandoned facilities, and a changing sea, all traces of a lost civilization. Players encounter a giant robot whose power opens paths to previously unreachable areas. The trailer showed robot-versus-robot battles and small combatants running across the giant machines to find weak points, a mechanic that multiple sources compared to Shadow of the Colossus. gen ATLAS is in development for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via the Epic Games Store, with Epic Games handling publishing. A teaser had appeared as a work-in-progress at The Game Awards 2024 under the working title Project Robot. No release date or price has been announced.
The game is being developed as a single-player open-world action-adventure, according to 4Gamer.net. The trailer shows towering structures in a desolate landscape and a robot with an imposing presence, conveying the sense of loneliness and mystery characteristic of Ueda's works.
Multiple sources describe the combat as reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus, with small combatants running across the giant robots to find their weak points. The trailer also shows robot-versus-robot battles. Game Spark and Inside both note that wishlisting has begun on store pages. GAME Watch reports that the release date and price are undecided.
Denfaminicogamer describes the game as a third-person shooter (TPS) in which players pilot giant robots in a desolate world. The trailer was shown during the Summer Game Fest 2026 livestream, which also featured a Japanese-translated broadcast on Denfaminico Gamer's official YouTube channel.
Automaton notes that Epic Games announced the title on June 6, and that the project was previously revealed in 2024 as the new work of Fumito Ueda. The official title gen ATLAS replaces the working name Project Robot.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 7 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network News Fumito Ueda Reveals gen ATLAS Game
- 4Gamer.net 創世，巨神，地図，第1頸椎――「gen ATLAS」という名に込められた意味を探る。genDESIGN新作について上田文人氏に聞いた
- GAME Watch (Impress) 「ICO」や「ワンダと巨像」を手掛けた上田文人氏の最新作「gen ATLAS」発表！【SGF2026】
- Denfaminicogamer 『ICO』『ワンダ』『トリコ』上田文人氏に、最新作『gen ATLAS』について詳しく聞いてきた。「巨大さ」というスケールをいかにプレイヤーに体験させるか、「迫力のある質量」をゲームに落とし込むには【Summer Game Fest Play Days 2026】
- Automaton 『ワンダと巨像』『ICO』上田文人氏の完全新作『gen ATLAS』、とうとう正式発表。ロボットが躍動する映像お披露目
- Inside 『ワンダと巨像』のクリエイターの新作は巨大ロボットとの大冒険！主人公の小ささ際立つ迫力のロボ戦闘も楽しめそうなロボアクション『gen ATLAS』発表【SGF2026】
- Game Spark 『ワンダと巨像』のクリエイターの新作は巨大ロボットとの大冒険！主人公の小ささ際立つ迫力のロボ戦闘も楽しめそうなロボアクション『gen ATLAS』発表【SGF2026】