⚔️ LEAKED: The next God of War just got exposed – and the first major boss fight is straight-up nightmare fuel.

Insiders dropped details on Kratos’ long-rumored Egyptian saga… Phase one ends with a brutal showdown against Anubis in the Duat underworld. The jackal god weighs Kratos’ heart on the scales of Ma’at – if it’s too heavy with sin, ghosts of every god he’s ever killed come back to rip him apart. New kopesh blades that cause bleeding, soul-ripping finishers, and a rage mode that literally cracks the afterlife open.

Santa Monica Studio playtesters are reportedly refusing to finish the fight alone at night.

Full leaked breakdown + why this could destroy everything we know about the series →

Hold onto your Leviathan Axe – the floodgates just opened.

Multiple industry insiders, including sources close to Santa Monica Studio, dropped a massive leak late last night detailing the opening hours of the next mainline God of War title, widely rumored to be set in ancient Egypt. While Sony has yet to make anything official, the details align perfectly with years of breadcrumbs: job listings seeking Middle Eastern voice talent, concept art slips, and even Cory Barlog’s old interviews confirming Egypt was the original plan before the 2018 reboot went Norse.

The leak comes from anonymous playtesters and a supposed internal build dated October 2025. If even half of it is accurate, God of War fans are about to witness Kratos’ most personal – and most terrifying – journey yet.

How Kratos Ends Up in Egypt

The game reportedly picks up roughly a decade after Ragnarök. Atreus (now going by Loki) has been traveling the world searching for lost giants. His path leads him to the lands of the Nile, where he accidentally disrupts the cosmic order – specifically, the Duat, the Egyptian realm of the dead.

Word reaches Kratos through Týr (who’s been exploring other pantheons post-Ragnarök). The Ghost of Sparta, now a reluctant leader in the Nine Realms, has no choice: his boy is in danger, and the Egyptian gods aren’t known for mercy.

Kratos arrives in a sun-blasted Egypt that looks ripped straight from history books – sprawling temples, endless dunes, and massive pyramids that double as dungeons. The new engine (an upgraded version of the one powering Ragnarök) renders sandstorms that blind you in real time, heat haze that distorts distant enemies, and Nile waters teeming with croc-headed horrors.

The First Major Boss: Anubis, Lord of the Dead

Here’s where the leak goes nuclear.

After a prologue that introduces new weapons – dual kopesh swords that replace the Blades of Chaos early on, with bleeding mechanics and dismemberment finishers – Kratos descends into the Duat to rescue Atreus’ soul (or something close to it). The mid-point of Act 1 is a full-blown boss arena against Anubis himself.

This isn’t some glorified miniboss. Insiders describe it as a three-phase nightmare that rivals Thor or Heimdall in scale:

Phase 1: Judgment – Anubis appears as a towering jackal-headed figure wielding a golden was-scepter and flail. The fight begins with the iconic weighing of the heart. Kratos’ heart is placed on the Scales of Ma’at opposite the Feather of Truth. Because of his past, the scale tips instantly – too heavy with the blood of gods. This triggers the arena to flood with Ammit, the soul-devouring beast, as a secondary hazard that lunges if you stay still too long.
Phase 2: The Returned – Here’s the part that reportedly broke playtesters. Every god Kratos has ever killed – Zeus, Poseidon, Baldur, even glimpses of Ares and Odin – manifests as spectral jackal warriors. Anubis summons them one by one, and they use movesets pulled straight from classic games. Defeating them “lightens” Kratos’ heart temporarily, unlocking new rage abilities mid-fight.
Phase 3: True Form – Anubis drops the humanoid look and goes full primal beast: a massive four-legged jackal made of black sand and star-filled void. The arena becomes a shifting labyrinth of tombs. Anubis teleports through walls, drags Kratos into pocket dimensions where gravity flips, and finishes with an unblockable grab that forces a QTE where Kratos literally rips the god’s heart out and crushes it.

The finisher? Kratos absorbs a fragment of Anubis’ power, gaining a new “Duat Dash” traversal ability and a permanent Underworld Rage mode that turns his eyes glowing blue and lets him phase through certain attacks later in the game.

Gameplay Overhaul for the Egyptian Pantheon

Leakers claim combat feels faster and bloodier than Ragnarök. The kopesh blades emphasize slashing combos and bleed stacks, while the Leviathan Axe returns with new runic attacks themed around drought and flood. Shield play gets a massive upgrade – you can now bash with pyramid-shaped shields that reflect curses back at enemies.

Exploration leans harder into verticality: climbing massive obelisks, diving into flooded tombs, and gliding on heated air currents above the desert. Puzzles revolve around Egyptian mythology – redirecting sunlight with mirrors to open Ra-sealed doors, or balancing scales with the hearts of defeated minibosses (crocodile-headed Amun guards, hippo-like Taweret guardians, etc.).

Why Anubis as the First Big Boss Makes Perfect Sense

Santa Monica has always used early bosses to set the emotional tone. Baldur tested Kratos’ restraint. Thor tested his growth. Anubis? He forces Kratos to literally face judgment for his sins – something the Valhalla DLC only scratched the surface of.

Sources say Christopher Judge’s performance during the heart-weighing sequence is already being called “Oscar-worthy.” Lines like “I have carried this weight longer than your sands have known the Nile” reportedly left the mocap team in tears.

Release Window and Scale

The leaked build is tagged “2027 Milestone,” but insiders insist Sony wants it for holiday 2026 to compete with GTA VI. It’s described as “Ragnarök-sized or bigger,” with multiple biomes: the lush Nile Delta, brutal Western Desert, and a full underworld hub that expands as you collect canopic jars from optional bosses.

Sony has reportedly gone silent on social media since the leak hit private Discord servers last night. Santa Monica Studio’s official accounts posted – then quickly deleted – a single emoji: ⚖️

True or not, one thing is clear: if this is real, Kratos vs. Anubis is about to become the most talked-about boss fight since Zeus on the mountaintop.

The internet is already flooded with reaction videos of people losing their minds over the described QTEs. Forums are debating whether Kratos’ heart can ever truly balance – or if the series is building toward the Ghost of Sparta finally meeting a foe he can’t brute-force his way past.

Sony declined comment when reached early this morning. But with The Game Awards just weeks away, expect either a brutal takedown… or the mother of all trailers.

Either way, the God of War community just got hit harder than Kratos hits draugr. Stay tuned – this one’s only getting bigger.