The game developer denies Hideo Kojima’s participation in Abandoned for PS5

Danish developer Blue Box Game Studios has announced its exclusive PlayStation 5, a first-person horror for name survival Abandoned, on Wednesday via Sony’s PlayStation Blog. Almost immediately, PlayStation fans came to the conclusion of his teaser trailer: This is a secret game by Hideo Kojima.

A lot of people thought that the studio was actually forced to deal with speculation about it Abandoned it was a stealth message about something completely different and to deny Kojima’s involvement on his website.

From the statement of Blue Box:

We received several emails about the rumors about Hideo Kojima. We have no connection with Hideo Kojima, nor do we claim to have any association, nor was it our intention to request such a statement. We are a small group of developers working on a passionate title that we wanted to work on for a long time. In the past we helped other studios with their projects and we wanted to work on our first big project. While it is true that we have worked on small projects in the past, we have certainly not used this for marketing purposes. We hope this has clarified this issue and we hope to see you all in our first gameplay revelation on Abandoned.

But why PlayStation fans suspected something wasn’t up to par Abandoned? It may have something to do with his game teaser and a slight detail that shows a man walking through a quiet, ghostly, photorealistic forest, but not many others. Or the fact that Blue Box Game Studios doesn’t have much name recognition or much of an online presence – the same for its owner and Abandoned director of the game Hassan Kahraman. Or the fact that Sony Interactive Entertainment publishes Kojima’s previous console platform, Death.

Kojima has certainly set the precedent for mysterious messages about the game to eventually turn into something else (e.g. Phantom pain from Moby Dick Studio and his invented game director Joakim Mogren, PT from 7780s Studio irritation The quiet hills). But according to Blue Box Game Studios, Abandoned is what it is: a realistic survival game for a man with amnesia who finds himself kidnapped and abandoned in the woods. The studio promises to reveal more and release a full video for the game soon.