Abandoned, the 2021 game that everyone thought was a secret Hideo Kojima game before it went completely dark, might actually still be a thing, as the lead developer was spotted playing it recently.
Before Hideo Kojima came out swinging with confirmation of not only Death Stranding 2 but also OD and the very far-off Physint, everyone was desperate to see what the beloved developer was working on next. We were so desperate, in fact, that we all started seeing things that weren't even really there.
Case in point, 2021's Abandoned, a PS5 survival horror that looked eerily similar to PT and gave off the vibes of a project that was hiding its true identity. That, combined with the frankly fake-sounding developer, Blue Box Studios, led everyone to believe that Kojima was secretly working on a woodland horror game and trying to pull another fast one on us all.
Abandoned's lead developer, Hasan Kahraman, even has the same initials as Hideo Kojima, which many took as the most obvious hint.
Of course, none of that ended up actually being true. As it turns out, Abandoned was really just a game from a studio with a long history...
