Following the release of 2024’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Swedish developer MachineGames has reiterated its intention to return to the sci-fi WWII shooter Wolfenstein–though when remains to be confirmed.
In an interview with GI.Biz on February 5, studio director Jerk Gustafsson said that the team hasn’t forgotten about William “B.J.” Blazkowicz’s staunch goal of killing Nazis in the alternate-history retelling of World War II.
“Our intention has always been to go back to Wolfenstein,” Gustafsson said. “We wanted to finish the trilogy. And when we do that, that is something that I don’t want to comment on. It can be now, it can be later, but we’re not done with it. That’s what I can say.”
Gustafsson clarified that he’s aware of the need to “justify the business side” of MachineGames projects to MIcrosoft’s leadership. (Microsoft acquired ZeniMax for $7.5 billion in March 2021, putting MachineGames and various other ZeniMax subsidiaries under its umbrella.) He also acknowledged that his aging body has an impact on the number of games he has left in him. However, he said that, with the studio loving to specialize in first-person games, he aims to experiment more within that genre in the future–as long as time permits him to.
“We have been doing very, very similar games, and very, very focused on first-person, story-driven titles for a long time,” he said. “[We are] looking more to see what we can do to innovate and expand within that genre. I often see us being able to do a mobile game. It just requires a different skillset that we don’t have at MachineGames. Maybe sometime in the future, but who knows?”
Gustafsson’s comments echo what the studio has said about Wolfenstein in the past. Although the last two games–2014’s The New Order and 2017’s The New Colossus–have seen a proper sequel in a while, MachineGames’ creative director Axel Torvenius said in September 2025 that the developer has always seen the franchise as a trilogy and hopes to return to it soon. As of January 2026, multiple sources claimed that a Wolfenstein 3 is in development, alongside a live-action TV series produced by Fallout’s Prime Video.
