Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin release date, development details, and more

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is coming back, and fans are super excited after the reveal at Summer Game Fest 2026. After years of silence following its original 2023 announcement, the game is set to make a dramatic return, featuring a full developer change and a bold new creative direction. The game adapts one of the darkest chapters of the TMNT series, and it will be really interesting to see how well it is done. In the section below, we take a detailed look at the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin.The Last Ronin was first announced in 2023, and it was set up as a project under THQ Nordic with Black Forest Games. However, that pairing quietly went cold, and most fans had written the project off as cancelled. Surprisingly, the Summer Game Fest 2026 proved everyone wrong, and the game is very much alive, just under entirely new hands. The single biggest news from the reveal is that PlatinumGames, the studio behind Bayonetta, NieR: Automata, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, is now leading development. PlatinumGames isn't new to the TMNT franchise, as the studio previously shipped Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan in 2016. Nevertheless, The Last Ronin represents a far more serious and substantial project. With Platinum's reputation for fluid, hard-hitting action combat, the fit feels natural for a story this dark.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is going to adapt the acclaimed comic series written by Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz. It is going to be set in a dystopian future New York, where the Foot Clan, led by Oroku Hiroto, the grandson of the Shredder, has seized control of the city. Only one Turtle has survived, carrying the weapons of his fallen brothers and driven by grief and the need for justice. The marketing never names the survivor directly, but comic readers already know it's Michelangelo.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is confirmed for consoles and PC. However, no release window has been announced yet, and the teaser trailer shown at Summer Game Fest was entirely CGI with no gameplay footage revealed. As a result, we can conclude that a release date remains TBD.