Capcom’s elusive new game, Pragmata, has resurfaced at Sony’s State of Play, this time with a new release window and a little more info on what the heck this game even is.
As demonstrated by the cheeky ending of the trailer, Pragmata is indeed a real game. You play as an astronaut man, Hugh, who’s come into some unexpected enconter in space that’s left him vulnerable. He’s saved by a little girl whose name is actually DI0367, but who the astronaut dubs Diana.
Though she’s small, Diana’s far from helpless – she has some sort of magic-techno-hacking powers that enable her to help out her astronaut friend as they fight off the weird robot-alien creatures trying to “neutralize” them. You’ll play as both characters simultaneously, with Diana riding on Hugh’s back. Per the PlayStation Blog, it looks like the main threat is a lunar station AI that’s preventing Hugh from returning to earth…from the moon.
Pragmata was first unveiled way back in 2020, with a trailer of an astronaut, a little girl, and some weird yet beautiful imagery, but little explanation as to what sort of game we were looking at. It was originally planned for a 2022 release, but was then later delayed until 2023, and then paused indefinitely with an apologetic trailer. We haven’t seen anything of it since, so this re-unveiling hopefully means that its development is finally making some serious progress, and we’ll get our hands on it soon…in 2026.
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