2K’s Mafia franchise returns this August with Mafia: The Old Country. The game is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and in a big shift from other AAA games, it’s priced not at $70 or $80, but $50.

It’s the first new Mafia game since 2016’s Mafia III, and it comes from the same studio, Hangar 13.

In this post, we’re running through everything we know about Mafia: The Old Country, including its status as a less-expensive, less time-consuming title, preorder details, story information, and lots more.

When will Mafia: The Old Country be released?

Mafia: The Old Country is set for release on August 8, 2025. That’s about a month before the next big 2K game, Borderlands 4, launches in September. GTA 6–another title from 2K owner Take-Two–was set to follow sometime after in 2025, but the game has been delayed to May 2026.

Mafia: The Old Country platforms

Mafia: The Old Country is in development for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It’s not coming to PS4 or Xbox One, and it’s not going to be in the Game Pass or PlayStation Plus catalogs at launch.

Preorder Mafia: The Old Country

Mafia: The Old Country is available to preorder today on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, starting at $50 for the standard edition. A $60 Deluxe edition is also available to preorder, and it comes with a variety of extras, including cosmetics, weapons, the soundtrack, and a digital art book. Everyone who preorders Mafia: The Old Country gets the Soldato Pack, which includes various cosmetics. Be sure to consult GameSpot’s preorder guide–coming soon!–to learn more about the game’s various editions and bonuses.

Mafia: The Old Country trailer

The newest trailer for Mafia: The Old Country debuted in early May 2025, showing off a detailed look at the game’s setting, 1900s Sicily, the main character Enzo, and lots of combat. The game was developed using Epic’s Unreal Engine 5 and leverages the company’s MetaHuman technology–basically, it looks quite impressive. Take a look at the trailer below.

Mafia: The Old Country story, setting, and characters

Mafia: The Old Country takes players back to, well, the old country–that is, Sicily. Players take on the role of Enzo Favara, a mobster whose life began in forced labor in his childhood. Now, 2K says he’s “ready to risk everything to become a man of honor in the Torrisi crime family.”

The game will play like a “classic mob movie,” 2K says, and this means players will encounter the criminal underworld and everything that entails. Players can expect to face off against “cutthroat enemies” as they live the life of a mobster battling in turf wars.

“Enzo’s story unfolds in a time when skill with a stiletto blade was a deadly asset, a lupara sawed-off shotgun was a go-to firearm, murderous vendettas raged for decades, and mafiosi patrolled their protection rackets on foot, horseback, or behind the wheel of turn-of-the-century motorcars,” 2K said.

Not open world

Unlike previous entries in the series, Mafia: The Old Country is a liner, narrative-driven game as opposed to an open-world title. 2K has said it believes there is a “large audience for compelling stories that don’t require massive time commitments.”

2K is releasing The Old Country as a linear game, and priced at $50 instead of $70 or more, against the backdrop of the proliferation of games with ballooning budgets, higher price points, and bigger asks from players to spend more time in their worlds.

So far, players have responded positively to the news of The Old Country’s lower price point and trimmed-down scale, but it’s too soon to say if this will pay off both in terms of the game’s critical reception or sales.

Mafia: The Old Country game engine

Mafia: The Old Country is developed using Epic’s Unreal Engine 5, as well as Epic’s AI-powered MetaHuman technology for its character models. In this developer video, the developers talk about using Epic’s game engine to hone in on “tiny details” to make The Old Country look alive. The use of MetaHuman allows characters to have “micro-expressions” and lifelike details, developers said.

Who’s developing Mafia: The Old Country?

Mafia: The Old Country is developed by Hangar 13, the same team that made 2016’s Mafia III, as well as 2020’s Mafia: Definitive Edition. The studio also made 2024’s TopSpin 2K25–very much not a mobster game. The Mafia franchise was created by Illusion Softworks, which rebranded to 2K Czech when 2K bought the studio in 2008 and put the team on Mafia II. 2K Czech later merged with Hangar 13.

Mafia’s creator, Daniel Vavra, now heads up Kingdom Come studio Warhorse.