“It’s Real!” — Capcom’s Long-Missing Space Epic Pragmata Finally Has A Release Date, Five Years After Being Silent and A Source of Cuckoldry
This isn’t a mirage. It isn’t vaporware. And no, it’s not a delay. After five years of speculation, silence, and being the butt of memes (we’ve all seen the “Pragmata is canceled” joke), Capcom has done it; Pragmata has a release date.
In a surprise to nearly every fan and critic, Capcom did officially announce today that the mysterious action game slash astronaut exploration game Pragmata will launch on November 22, 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Pragmata first revealed itself via a cinematic trailer during an event for the PlayStation 5 on June 11, 2020, wowing everyone with its hauntingly beautiful visuals featuring a mysterious astronaut, a little girl with mysterious powers, and a shattered moon hanging over a dystopian Earth. Then boom, silence.
Originally set for a 2022 release, the title was quietly delayed to 2023…then it entered the void. No developer updates. No game play footage. Not even a last minute logo change.
As the last five years passed, Pragmata turned into one of the biggest gaming mysteries on the internet: a “missing person” sign at every gaming festival, Reddit thread.
In a press release provided with the new teaser trailer, Capcom noted the extended period of development, and the frustrations expressed by fans.
“We understand the excitement and appreciate the patience,” the statement said. “With Pragmata, we are working to tell an emotionally driven science fiction narrative completely unlike anything we have done before.
We took the time we needed to build a world that we could explore that feels vast, lonely and infused with meaning.”
For most, the question of what exactly Pragmata was remained somewhat ambiguous — Was it a shooter? Was it a walking simulator? Was it a Kojima-style fever dream?
Capcom’s new trailer, and early hands-on impressions from Japanese gaming journalists (who were told prior to flying to LA that Pragmata was going to be a game they could play) immediately shed some light.
Pragmata takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth that has shattered directly above the player’s head. Gravity is tenuous, at best. The player is introduced to a mysterious astronaut (the player) who meets a young girl named Diana.
Diane is not fully human, and she just may be humanity’s last hope for survival (or extinction).
Pragmata gameplay seems to be a combination of foray-style exploration, narrative, physics-based puzzles, and third-person combat with a focus on tools, appliances, and yes, gravity manipulation.
The gaming community responded with excitement, skepticism and mild trauma from the too many “coming soon” titles that never saw the light of day.
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