The Last of Us Development Series

An exploration of the relationship that Joel and Ellie develop in spite of and because of the insane world in which they've come together.

The brutality of edge-case survival isn't just a setting, for Naughty Dog it's also a way of visceral connection to the player through the rulesets that bind their actions in the game world.

Scavenging the paltry resources leftover from a devastated world makes each use a meaningful one, and each player action a storytelling moment.

The concept a post-pandemic world is usually fraught with every visual descriptor except "beautiful." Naughty Dog has taken a very different approach by simply asking the question: what happens to the world after we're gone?

A look at the origin and characteristics of the Infected in the first video of The Last of Us Development series.