Dan Houser confirms Rockstar's Project Medieval was real, but it only exists in concept designs

Dan Houser officially confirms that Rockstar Games was working on a medieval fantasy game at one point, but the project never actually took off and entered production.

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Back in 2019, rumor had it that Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar could make a huge departure with their next game--a new knight sim that traded Grand Theft Auto's guns for swords and shields. Rockstar had been in the throes of crafting Red Dead Redemption 2 for years, and after that project shipped, the team threw together a few rough concept ideas.

One of these was Project Medieval, a game that had been set in a new IP focused on gleaming armor and knight errantry. Up until now, Project Medieval has always been a somewhat dubious rumor, but Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser has officially confirmed that it was in concept phases at one point.

"Then [after RDR2] we played around with a knights concept, you know, knights and trying to do a sort of a version of a mythological game. That could've been fun, and I still love that idea, but we never went very far with it," Dan Houser said in a recent interview with Lex Fridman.

"We never got to writing any of it, just did some backstory and played around with a few ideas. But it's something that I thought I'd never do, then I kind of fell in love with it a little bit."

Rockstar currently has their hands full with Grand Theft Auto 6, which is one of the most anticipated entertainment releases on the planet. Then after GTA 6 comes continuous GTA Online content development, so it's unclear what Rockstar's next big AAA project will actually be. Whatever it is, though, GTA 6 may provide enough funding for Rockstar to do something truly wild and ambitious.