2K Games’ consistently sporadic Mafia series will return in 2025. Mafia: The Old Country is set in 20th century Sicily and examines the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 announced that a new Mafia title was in development as early as 2022, but provided few details beyond that. Now we know that it will be released in summer 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

The game’s first trailer, which premiered at the Game Awards on Thursday, is a melodramatic affair, complete with a patriarch monologues by candlelight, horses galloping across the plains, and opera music as background music. That is dramaPeople.

Mafia: The Old Country is a linear, narrative game with stealth and gunplay mechanics in deliberately cinematic environments. It stars Enzo, a new, original protagonist. Here’s how publisher 2K Games describes his journey: “Enzo survived a childhood as a forced laborer in the hellish sulfur mines of Sicily. Now, through a twist of fate, he has the opportunity to join Don Torrisi’s crime family and will do whatever it takes.” By swearing an oath, Enzo has committed himself to the Torrisi family’s code of honor, with all his might and power Hardness that he brings with him.

The Mafia series began in 2002 as a more serious take on the GTA formula, set in a nod to Chicago in the 1930s. Mafia II landed in 2010 and was set in a fictionalized version of post-World War II New York City. Another long gap led to 2017, when Mafia III flashed forward to the 1960s outside of New Orleans.

In 2018, 2K Hangar 13, the developer of the third title, merged with 2K Czech, the team that developed the first two games, and this joint studio is now working on this The old country. With a release window of 2025, we have eight years between Mafia episodes, which is just right for the series.