The Perfect Run Game picked by Sony
Hello everyone, I have very big news to share,
As people following me on Patreon and Discord will know, I've been working in partnership with the Tunisian studio Lanterns Studios on developing a Perfect Run game demo, which we've presented at the Gamescom 2024 and online in an open playtest. During that period, we've become aware of Sony Interactive Entertainment's MENA Playstation Hero initiative: a publishing program where Sony would finance, publish and support a new line of games from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
It's a pleasure and honor for me for me to announce that out of hundreds of applications, The Perfect Run game is now one of the four games which has been picked by Sony as part of its MENA Playstation Hero initiative and will launch in 2028 as a PC/Playstation 5 exclusive!
You can find the link to the official Playstation blog and more information on both the initiative and our fellow MENA game cohort here: https://blog.playstation.com/2025/08/23/revealing-4-middle-east-and-north-africa-mena-hero-project-games-coming-to-playstation/
What does this mean, you ask? Well, mostly that the Perfect Run game is now in development as an AA title with the amazing support of the Sony and Playstation team! This is the start of a years-long journey for me and the Lanterns Studios team, as we currently envision the game to launch around 2028 to ensure we have the best title possible. I'll be heavily working with the team as a narrative designer to ensure the novel series is faithfully represented and that you may enjoy breaking New Rome in a countless different ways!
We'll be launching a devlog soon to produce development updates, trailers and other information (maybe more open demos in the future), so you can check my Discord (https://discord.gg/p8vNYBeQMU) or my Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/VoidHerald ) for more news on that front.
I want once more to thank everyone who participated in the open demos earlier this year and during the 2024 Gamescom. Your invaluable feedback let us refine the demo into something worthy of being picked up by a large publisher, and for this you have my undying thanks.
Finally, and as a side-note, a Perfect Run webtoon is also in development with Aethon Publishing, so you can look forward to more Perfect Run mayhem in the years to come ;) I'll be posting a link when it finally launches, but until then you can follow updates on my discord.
Until then, I wish you an excellent day, and I'll see you in the next loop,
Best regards,
Voidy/Maxime.
Comments (25)
Gg incroyable
Wait this is only for ppl who are from the MENA region? Didn’t know ur from there that’s awesome!
I’m pretty sure voidy is European it says it in his bio. The developer studio is MENA though.
Oh hell yeah dude! I'm excited!! TPR is one of the big reasons I even started reading stuff on RR and seeing it getting MORE love is just...AWESOME! Absolutely buying this when it releases
Amazing. Congratulations ! This must be incredibly exciting for you
Thanks, it's very much a dream come true XD
This is huge! Congratulations!
THIS IS AMAZING! CONGRATS VOID! And also another point in the PlayStation supremacy corner.
Words cannot describe how happy I am for you nor how exciting this whole thing is! Only downside is the wait time, but knowing that its being made into a AA game from a major publisher will no doubt push it to amazing heights! I look forward to it!
HOLY SHIT CONGRATS 🎉🎊
Congrats!
Awesome! Well done!
So huge man, insanely happy for you and the team!!!
wonderful achievement. will recommend the game to all the local ps players :)
That is incredible. So glad your hard work is paying off!
Amazing news
Wow!!!!! Looks like QuickSave is jumping from the Time stream to the Mainstream!
That is fucking massive! Congrats to you and the devs for catching their attention. I hope the support you get through this will make it a game i spend countless hours on.
Do you have a date beyond just 2028 good job by the way getting a novel turn into a video game before a comic/manga/mawha is crazy work
We do have an internal planning but I'm not allowed to share much on that front yet; I hope we can organize a demo/open playtest at one point or another but that's not up to me at this point ;)
Damn play stations now I have to get a job
Jesus Christ!! Well done. But now I am sad that I, as a PC gamer won't get to experience it for even longer
Thanks! Well, unfortunately the project will indeed take a few years now that it has drastically increased in scope, but I hope it'll be worth the wait!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
This is great news props to you voidy