Today, Sucker Punch Productions announced through social platforms that its new work "Soul of Tsushima: Chapter of Sheep's Hoof" has officially "entered the factory to press the market".This means that the game's main body development has been fully completed and will soon enter the physical master disk production stage.According to known information, this game will launch a free "Qi Tan Mode" multiplayer online gameplay in 2026, just like the previous game.

As the spiritual sequel to "The Soul of Tsushima" in 2020, this work will present different time and space backgrounds and protagonist settings.The player will play the role of the girl "Ahe". 16 years ago, his family was tortured by "six people from Sheep's Hoof"; 16 years later, Ahe lies on firewood and tastes gall to wander around Sheep's Hoof Mountain, and will start a bloody revenge against the murderer.

New features compared to the previous work include dynamic weather systems such as wind and snow, rainfall and aurora, which are inspired by the real natural environment around Yangti Mountain.In addition, the development team revealed that this game adopts a flexible nonlinear task structure, and players can independently choose the order of "Sheep Hoof Six People", thus forming an emerging narrative path and player-led plot driving force.Continuing the tradition of the previous work, players can undertake side missions of wanting criminals, and classic mini games such as hot spring bathing and bamboo forest chopping have all returned. At the same time, new activities such as ink painting creation and camp construction have been added.

The size of the game and the size of the map are said to be comparable to the previous game, but the developer said that the game world built on the real environment will be more vast."Soul of Sheep Hoof Mountain" will be launched on PS5 platform on October 2. According to Sony's recent strategy, the PC version is expected to be released in about a year.