Look who’s back from the dead: Capcom’s Pragmata returns with some gameplay, but still no release date

One of Capcom’s most mysterious projects currently in development has ben Pragmata, the sci-fi action game first announced all the way back in 2020 – five years ago! Pragmata was initially set to launch two years later, in 2022, but it kept vanishing off Capcom’s release calendar.

Even when the publisher would bring the game back to remind everyone that it has not been cancelled, it would not offer any new details or give a solid release date. The last time we’d seen it was in the summer of 2023, when Capcom just threw in the towel and delayed it indefinitely.

But it has now returned after what, we hope, has been its last disappearing act.

As part of Sony’s State of Play showcase, we got treated to a new trailer for Pragmata. The trailer is amusingly titled First Contact, and it delivers a mix of gameplay with some light narrative to re-intorduce its two main characters – Hugh, and Diana.

We’re still not quite sure how gameplay works; the footage shows some puzzle-solving, third-person shooting and a bit of stealth. The goal seems to be for the two protagonists to rely on each other to escape a space station.

A new PlayStation Blog post confirms that we’ll be able to control both of them at the same time during gameplay. It looks like Diana will do the hacking, and Hugh will take care of the shooting.

Capcom knows that it’s getting a little silly to keep bringing the game back, only for it to disappear off the face of the earth for years. While today’s news sadly does not come with a solid release date – beyond a simple 2026 target, the trailer does end with a lighthearted note apologising for the delay, showing the 2022 original release date being erased and replaced with the new 2026 date, emphasising that “it’s real” this time.

Pragmata is in development for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.