Xbox Kojima horror game resurfaces with spooky new trailer and P.T. vibes

A new OD trailer has been shared by Hideo Kojima and Xbox’s Phil Spencer, and it seems very reminiscent of Silent Hills.

With Death Stranding 2 now out of the way, it appears Hideo Kojima’s next priority is his Xbox horror game OD, which saw its first teaser at The Game Awards 2023 and was described as not just a game but ‘at the same time a movie and at the same time a new form of media.’

Combined with the brief trailer, this didn’t really tell us anything, aside from the fact that it’s got a bunch of celebrities in it. There were some concerns that it would be cancelled, amid Microsoft’s widespread layoffs earlier this year, but the publisher assured fans that OD is still in development.

You’d think Microsoft would want to save any big updates for the Tokyo Game Show this week, as it’s one of the few Japanese games it has to call its own. But instead, a new trailer was shown during a livestream to celebrate developer Kojima Productions’ 10th anniversary.

It’s certainly a very spooky trailer and reinforces the belief that OD is being built out of the remains of Kojima’s cancelled Silent Hill game. The trailer has a similar feel to the P.T. demo, since it takes place from a first person perspective and features someone exploring a haunted house and lighting candles while creepy sounds emanate from all sides.

There’s also a bit of gross-out horror as a mass of worms starts spilling out of a cup, which is reminiscent of some of the rarely seen footage of what was intended to become Silent Hills, which was only shown at the Tokyo Game Show back in the day.

While the trailer is described as running in-engine (specifically on Unreal Engine 5) it’s unclear how much of it was actual gameplay. The very end doesn’t seem to be, with the perspective shifting to reveal the player character as It and Dungeons & Dragons actress Sophia Lillis, as some unseen monster slowly approaches her from behind.

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The only other thing the trailer revealed was a new subtitle, making its full name OD: Knock. According to Kojima, this came about because he wants to explore ‘the fear of the knock.’