Gendesign teasing game announcement coming soon

Aside from The Last Guardian, Ueda is also best known for developing Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.

Ico is a minimalist action-adventure game from 2001 which had a "boy meets girl" concept. Ico is also the name of the protagonist. He sets off on an adventure to free a girl named Yorda from the clutches of an evil Queen. Meanwhile, Shadow of the Colossus is a 2005 open-world action-action adventure game and was billed as the spiritual successor of Ico. Although it gained critical acclaim, it couldn't quite replicate the success of Ico. However, it's become recognized as an influential title, even with all the content that was found to have been cut from the final product.

Projects helmed by Ueda typically have a long development cycle. The Last Guardian was announced in 2009 but was only released in 2016. It is not surprising that GenDesign has not had a new title since the release of The Last Guardian.

GenDesign may have been stealthily developing or planning new game titles since the studio is looking to expand its manpower. In 2020, Epic Games announced that it is funding and publishing the next title being developed by the studio.

In 2021, GenDesign also teased a new game in one of the studio's New Year postcards. The postcard contained screenshots of the three previous games that Ueda worked on along with an image from an unidentified game. The image was of a person under a mechanical structure.