Hideo Kojima Fans Investigate PS5 Exclusive Abandoned, Reads Like Conspiracy Theories

The utterly bizarre speculation surrounding upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive Abandoned and its tenuous links to game creator Hideo Kojima simply aren’t going away. After initially denying claims Blue Box Game Studios is simply Kojima in disguise and apologising for a recent tweet linking Abandoned to Silent Hill, fans of the Metal Gear Solid designer are now drawing up long lists of evidence linking him to the PS5 project in question. We suggest you buckle up for this one because we’re about to go down the rabbit hole and then some.

This Reddit post collects all of the “proof” under one roof, so we’ll be working from that. The list begins with a few random and potentially unrelated occurrences, including the fact Blue Box Game Studios’ YouTube page features hills (Silent Hill and potentially Death Stranding references) and one recent tweet from Kojima himself including “silent” and “hill”. Fans have also noticed the letters P and T are covered by trees in the Abandoned PS5 teaser trailer. What’s the relevance? The famous P.T. demo, of course. The first section of claims is then rounded out by general chatter of how Hideo Kojima has done this once before. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was originally announced by Moby Dick Studio before it was revealed to be Kojima behind the entire thing.

But here’s where things get really unusual. In the past couple of days, fans have been really digging into the backstory of Blue Box Game Studios and the people behind it, uncovering some strange links and odd happenings in the process. The original teasers for P.T. made mention of “Snowflakes of Blood”. A tweet from two days mentions that same phrase as a “gameplay fact” for Abandoned alongside the usual console specs. Next up, the developer was founded roughly one year after P.T. launched on PlayStation 4 and between then and now, it has only made one other game. The logo for that title is a black handprint, a lot like you would see in Death Stranding. Along the way, one of Blue Box Game Studios’ cancelled games was named Lost Tapes — also the name of the fourth soundtrack for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.