For the final 20 years, Yoko Taro has discovered success with the Drakengard and Nier franchise(s), however he hasn’t had a brand new recreation because the Voice of Playing cards trilogy a number of years in the past. Nevertheless, the creator of the NieR video games insists that he is remained busy in that point, however his video games preserve getting canceled.
In accordance with a report on 4Gamer (through Automaton), Yoko addressed the problem whereas showing on a panel on the G-CON 2025 online game conference in Korea. He informed the viewers that his most up-to-date initiatives fell aside throughout improvement.
“I typically get informed stuff like, ‘Why aren’t you making a brand new sequel to Nier’ or ‘Yoko Taro is not doing something,’ however that is as a result of just lately, lots of initiatives I used to be concerned in acquired discontinued halfway via improvement,” mentioned Yoko. “I’ve really been engaged on some stuff, it is simply that it by no means ended up seeing the sunshine of day. I acquired paid for it, so I personally haven’t any points with that, however individuals appear to suppose that I have never been doing something simply because not one of the work I’ve finished is being launched.”
Yoko did not clarify why his initiatives have been canceled or supply any further particulars about what they have been. He did word that he’d reasonably see video games get canceled than launch one thing that fails to dwell as much as the requirements he set along with his earlier video games.
In 2023, Yoko facetiously mentioned the subsequent Nier recreation may come out tomorrow or 35 years from now. Nier Reincarnation was shut down in 2024, however Yoko launched two Nier tie-in books that yr. Final yr, Hiroyuki Kobayashi implied that he is collaborating with Yoko and composer Keiichi Okabe on a brand new undertaking. Earlier in 2025, Yoko shared his prediction that AI will put human recreation builders out of labor in 50 years.