Death Stranding 2 only just came out a couple of months ago, but it’s already time to talk about director Hideo Kojima’s next big game.
Kojima held a live-streamed announcement event on Monday night where most of the attention was on the first real teaser for OD, a horror game he is developing for Xbox in collaboration with Nope mastermind Jordan Peele. The 3-minute teaser doesn’t seem like it includes any actual gameplay footage, as the game is surely still in the early stages of development, but you can get a basic idea of the kind of tone Kojima and Peele are going for if you watch it.
Most of the teaser revolves around first-person point-of-view footage of someone lighting some candles at a weird, baby-centric shrine (Kojima’s got a fascination with babies, I guess) while someone (or something) mysteriously knocks on a nearby door. You don’t get much beyond that and confirmation that actors like Udo Kier and Hunter Schafer are involved with the project in the video. Still, it’s enough to evoke memories of PT, an infamous first-person horror demo for an eventually canceled Silent Hill project that Kojima was working with Guillermo del Toro on about a decade ago.
That said, anyone who has followed Kojima’s work for long enough knows that his trailers can be misleading, so we can’t say, with any confidence, what OD actually is at this point. It certainly seems like it’ll be creepy, though. Nothing wrong with that.