It Seems A New Sly Cooper Game May Be Coming

Last Updated: May 13th, 2022

Two new job listings have recently been posted up by Sucker Punch that have led fans of the Sly Cooper franchise to believe that a new game in the beloved series is coming and will be announced relatively soon in the grand scheme of things.

New Sly Cooper Game on the Horizon?

The job listings read:

“Senior Multiplayer Systems Designer- Are you the sort of Systems Designer that reads through board game instruction manuals as if they were spy thrillers? Do you look through the rule set and instantly see opportunities for betrays and glorious come-from behind victories? Our goal is to combine challenging combat encounters and cooperative mechanics together with beautiful environments and engaging stories. The Senior Multiplayer Systems Designer will imagine, create, and tune to perfection the interwoven mechanisms that help it all come to life.”

“Multiplayer/Network Programmer- Sucker Punch, the studio that created Ghost Of Tsushima and the multiplayer Legends mode, is looking for a Multiplayer/Network Programmer to join our studio in Bellevue, WA. Our talented multiplayer designers create awesome game team experiences, and you’ll be pivotal in bringing that creativity to life in a spectacular multiplayer game.”

You can see the full job listings in the tweet below:

Hiring New Talent for Sly Cooper 5?

What’s made fans of Sly Cooper believe that Sucker Punch could be looking to hire for a potential new game in the Sly Cooper series is that the games could be described as Spy Thrillers, exactly the genre that is explicitly mentioned in the job listings themselves. There have been heavy rumors of a new Sly Cooper game in development for a long-time now, going all the way back to the start of this year. The last game released in the series was back in 2013 with Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, which was developed by an entirely different team to Sucker Punch, Sanzaru Games. What shape this possible revival of the series may take is unknown.