Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune could be getting a current-gen remake

Naughty Dog could be working on a remake of the first Uncharted game. 

A recent tweet from Twitter user @NextGenPlayer mentioned that the first Uncharted game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, is allegedly getting a full remake for the PlayStation 5. Unfortunately, their sources have no idea who is developing such a game – they’re not sure if Naughty Dog is working on the Uncharted 1 remake or not.

Interestingly, the same could be said about a post on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumors subreddit. According to u/gonnabecrazy69, XboxEra’s Nick Baker and Jon Clarke stated during a recent XboxEra podcast that both independently heard that the first Uncharted game is getting a remake for current-gen (PS5), though they don’t know which developer is working on it.

Although it’s difficult to pinpoint which developer is working on the remake, there is a chance that Naughty Dog itself is working on the Uncharted 1 remake. A series of tweets from Twitter user @Speclizer revealed that Naughty Dog was working on a remake of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune behind the scenes, even when working on The Last of them 2. 

All the Uncharted 1 Remake rumours have stemmed from my research that I’ve shared privately, here’s the proof that Uncharted Remake was/is in the works. All datamined from a 2020 build of TLOU 2. pic.twitter.com/xEJMcgpx21

According to Speclizer’s tweets, they encountered code from what could be Naughty Dog’s code for Uncharted 1 within The Last of them 2’s code. The code they found referenced a plane crash scene in Uncharted 1 – the time when the plane Nathan Drake and Elena Fisher were on was brought down by anti-aircraft fire by a then-unknown group.

Their tweets also revealed that Sony’s Visual Arts Service Group would reportedly like to work on the Uncharted 1 remake based on information from a leftover TLOU2 dev task file. The rumored remake might also run on the latest engine Naughty Dog has.

Although information about a remake of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is still rumored at best, it is making gamers excited nonetheless. Despite the first Uncharted game being playable on Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: The Nathan Drake collection, it is a PlayStation 4/PlayStation 5 port of the hit PlayStation 2 game.