| Prologue: Go Wayback! | |||
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| Release Date | Gameplay & Story | Pre-Order & DLC | Review |
| Release Date | |
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November 20, 2025 (Early Access)
Full Launch TBA More Details | |
| Genre | |
| Survival, Adventure | |
| Platforms | Price (MSRP) |
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$19.99 (Early Access) |
| Developer | Publisher |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions | PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions |
| Number of Players | Age Rating |
| 1 | Rating Pending |
| Time to Finish | Cross Platform |
| TBA | No |
| Official Website | Prologue: Go Wayback!Website |
Prologue: Go Wayback! Latest News
⚫︎ Added weather debris, with more immersion tweaks coming in future updates (Official Twitter (X) Account)
⚫︎ Open Beta update adds matchbooks. lighters, and oil lamps (Steam)
⚫︎ Demo for PLAYERUNKNOWN's Prologue: Go Wayback! is out now! (Steam)
⚫︎ Here's a look at PUBG creator's survival game set in a wilderness generated by machine learning (Eurogamer)
⚫︎ Players are already finding creative solutions to Prologue: Go Wayback's grueling difficulty: 'You could just chug gasoline' (PCGamer)
Prologue: Go Wayback! Overview
Prologue: Go Wayback! is a survival game with a procedurally-generated open world using machine learning, being developed by PLAYERUNKOWN Productions. Development is led by PLAYERUNKNOWN himself, Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG. The game is intended to be one of three ‘prototype’ games for the studio to lay the groundwork for its ultimate game in the future. Prologue: Go Wayback! Early Access launched for the PC via Steam and Epic Games on November 20, 2025.
Prologue: Go Wayback! centers around the player as they are dropped in the middle of a randomly-generated wilderness with only a map and a few tools in hand to aid in their mission – reach the weather station and signal rescue. They must use their wits to gather resources, scavenge, and craft items to survive their journey against Mother Nature itself.
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Prologue: Go Wayback! Gameplay
Prologue: Go Wayback! is an open-world survival game where the terrain and wilderness will be procedurally generated through machine learning, allowing repeated playthroughs to never take place in the same environment. Seen in the first-person view, players must use the few tools at their disposal to craft and fix items, scavenge for supplies, collect resources, and find food. All the while, they must make steps in reaching the weather station to signal their rescue and complete a playthrough. A handy map is given to players at the start, but that is all the help the game offers, as it has no hand-holding, advice, or any hints as to proceed with survival.
Prologue: Go Wayback! Announcement Trailer
Announcement Trailer
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