The Last of Us Part II

The Last of Us Part II is an action-adventure game with survival horror elements, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It launched on PlayStation 4 on June 19, 2020. The Last of Us Part II Remastered followed on PlayStation 5 on January 19, 2024, and a Windows version, made with Nixxes Software and Iron Galaxy, arrived on April 3, 2025.

The story picks up four years after the original The Last of Us and takes place in a post-apocalyptic United States, where a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus has turned much of the population into hostile creatures. Ellie, living in Jackson, Wyoming, travels to Seattle seeking revenge after Joel is killed. The narrative also follows Abby, a soldier in the Washington Liberation Front militia, whose path crosses with a religious cult known as the Seraphites as the two groups fight over the city.

Played from a third-person view, the game shifts control between Ellie and Abby. Players move through buildings, forests and city ruins, climbing, jumping, crawling prone and sometimes riding a horse or boat. Combat mixes firearms such as rifles, bows and pistols with scavenged melee weapons, thrown objects and crafted items like health kits and Molotov cocktails. Weapons can be upgraded at workbenches, skills improve through supplements and training manuals, and Listen Mode reveals nearby enemies, including guard dogs that follow a scent trail.

A post-launch update added a permadeath option and extra difficulty settings. The Remastered release brings visual upgrades, faster loading, DualSense support and developer commentary, plus three new modes: No Return, a roguelike survival mode built on randomized encounters; Lost Levels, a set of cut sequences; and Guitar Free Play. A July 2025 update added a chronological mode that interleaves the two halves of the story, and The Last of Us Complete bundles Part I with Part II Remastered.

Development started in 2014, with Neil Druckmann as creative director and co-writer alongside Halley Gross, and Ashley Johnson, Troy Baker and Laura Bailey performing Ellie, Joel and Abby. Gustavo Santaolalla returned to write the score. Critics praised its gameplay, sound, performances and visuals, though its story divided opinion and it faced review bombing from some players. It sold more than four million copies in its launch weekend, passed ten million by 2022, collected over 300 Game of the Year awards, and its story is being adapted in the television series The Last of Us.