The Last of Us

The Last of Us

Naughty Dog followed Uncharted with something far bleaker: a fungal pandemic has collapsed the United States, and hardened smuggler Joel is hired to move a fourteen-year-old girl named Ellie out of a Boston quarantine zone. What starts as a job becomes a year-long journey across a ruined country and one of the most discussed endings in the medium. Scarce ammo, brutal encounter design and Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson's performances turned it into an instant landmark.

One of the most awarded games ever made

The Last of Us: Left Behind

A three-hour prequel chapter that cuts between Ellie caring for a wounded Joel and a flashback to a night in an abandoned mall with her best friend Riley. It is quieter than the main game, mostly about two teenagers messing around in a dead world, and it does more for Ellie's character than most full-length campaigns manage. Later bundled into every re-release.

The Last of Us Remastered

A quick PS4 turnaround barely a year after launch: higher-resolution textures, 1080p output, an unlocked 60fps mode, improved shadows and the full Left Behind chapter included. It also carried over the Factions multiplayer mode and added commentary tracks, and for years it was the definitive way to play until the ground-up remake arrived.

The Last of Us Part II

Five years after Salt Lake City, Ellie leaves Jackson on a path of revenge to Seattle — and halfway through, the game hands you the controller from the other side of the conflict. Part II is Naughty Dog's most technically accomplished and most divisive game: extraordinary animation, dread-heavy encounter design, a huge accessibility suite, and a structure deliberately built to make you uncomfortable with what you're doing.

Sold over 10 million copies

The Last of Us Part I

Not a remaster — a full rebuild of the 2013 game in the Part II engine, with new character models, rewritten AI, redone animation and lighting, DualSense haptics and Part II's accessibility suite bolted on. It arrived alongside HBO's adaptation and drew criticism for its price and a rough PC launch, but it is now the definitive version of Joel and Ellie's first journey.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered

The PS5 version adds native 4K, a 60fps fidelity mode and DualSense support, but the real additions are No Return — a roguelike survival mode with unlockable characters, the closest thing to Factions the series has now — plus three playable Lost Levels cut from development with director commentary, and a guitar free-play mode. It came to PC in April 2025 and remains the most recent Last of Us release.

The last new Last of Us content shipped