Bethesda has revealed that there are two new Wolfenstein games in development. The first is a title known as Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
While this isn’t the next mainline Wolfenstein game – there’s still no word regarding whether or not we’ll be treated to a Wolfenstein III – it is a fascinating “spin-off” of sorts that is primarily meant to be played as a co-op shooter. Yes, Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op shooter that lets you play as BJ Blazkowicz’s daughters as they shoot their way through an alternate version of 1980s Paris.
This does seemingly make Youngblood a psuedo- sequel to the events we saw in Wolfenstein II, but it’s not entirely clear whether or not this game will touch upon the story threads that were left lingering by Wolfenstein II. Instead, it appears that this game will tell a story that more of its own.
The good news is that Youngblood is being developed by the folks at Machine Games (who have been responsible for the modern Wolfenstein games we’ve enjoyed thus far) and that you’ll be able to play it by yourself in some form if you aren’t able to find a friend to stick with you until the end. It also seems like Machine Games is planning on releasing the game for major platforms sometime in 2019.
We, unfortunately, know less about the other Wolfenstein game on the horizon, but we can tell you that it is a VR title called Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot where you play a hacker who is trying to turn the Nazis’ own machinery against them. There’s no word on when this game will be released or which VR platforms it will be available for.
Even though we’d love to hear something about the next mainline Wolfenstein game, these projects look like fun deviations from the norm that should manage to kill the time until we get our hands on what figures to be the final game in the mainline Wolfenstein reboot series.