Kojima Productions’ Mystery Horror Game OD Gets New Teaser Trailer

Hideo Kojima’s upcoming project OD, developed in collaboration with Xbox Game Studios, has received a new teaser trailer.

OD was first announced during the Xbox Developer Direct in 2022 and then officially unveiled at The Game Awards 2023 with a short trailer.

The project uses Unreal Engine 5 and is described by Kojima as an "avant-garde" horror experience that explores the concept of "OD on fear"—testing players' fear thresholds in a way that's "totally different" from traditional games, with its full impact potentially taking 10–20 years to evaluate.

Development was paused from December 2024 to July 2025 due to the SAG-AFTRA video game strike, but has since resumed following the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

Many fans see it as a spiritual successor to Kojima’s canceled Silent Hills project. For context, Kojima had previously worked with Konami on Silent Hill, releasing the now-legendary playable teaser P.T. for PlayStation 4 users in 2014. Despite its brief runtime, P.T. left a lasting mark on the horror genre with its terrifying atmosphere and innovative first-person storytelling. Its abrupt cancellation, following Kojima’s public split from Konami, remains one of gaming’s great “what ifs.”

That history inevitably colors the way fans view OD. While it isn’t Silent Hills, there’s hope among players that it could capture some of the same experimental horror energy.

Who’s Behind OD?

This new game is being penned by Kojima alongside filmmaker Jordan Peele, a creative force known for reinventing modern horror with films like Get Out and Nope. The cast features familiar names too, including Sophia Lillis from IT and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

The project also takes advantage of Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman technology, which delivers hyper-realistic facial animation. If you’ve seen the trailer, you’ll know how unsettlingly real the performances look; every tremble, lip quiver, and subtle eye movement carries weight, pushing digital acting closer to live-action than ever before.

The fresh teaser, dubbed the “Knock” trailer, shows Sophia Lillis’ character performing a candlelit ritual inside a largely empty room. Things quickly spiral into disturbing territory: wax turns into blood, worms crawl from candles, knocks echo through the house, and eventually a shadowy entity grabs her by the face.

Beyond the horror trappings, Kojima has emphasized that OD will use Xbox’s cloud gaming technology to create something entirely new, “a new form of media,” as he put it. Whether this means large-scale online systems, experimental storytelling, or something else entirely, remains unclear. But given Kojima’s track record with Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, it’s safe to say the game won’t be playing by conventional rules.

When Could OD Release?

At the moment, OD doesn’t have a release date. The game is confirmed for Xbox Series X|S and Windows, though Microsoft’s recent multiplatform strategy could eventually see it land on PlayStation as well.