Don’t call it a comeback just yet, but it appears that developer Blue Box Game Studios’ PS5-exclusive, first-person horror shooter Abandoned may not have been abandoned after all, according to a post on ResetEra.
Sleuths on the gaming forum ResetEra discovered on March 5 that Blue Box Game Studios’ director, Hasan Kahraman, has a new game connected to his PlayStation account. The game is titled Abandoned: Gospels of Blood, suggesting that Kahraman may be attempting to resurrect a version of the once-maligned PS5 project. That’s it, though. There’s no trailer, no demo, no release date–nothing at all. So, to understand the significance of this insignificant update, we have to go back to 2021.
A Trip Down (Abandoned) Memory Lane
Back in April 2021, developer Hasan Kahraman and his team at Blue Box Game Studios pulled back the curtain on Abandoned. Revealing it on the PlayStation Blog, the game was described as a “cinematic, first-person horror survival-shooter” with photorealistic graphics and a highly detailed, open-world environment. It looked creepy yet stunning, but it also kind of resembled a Silent Hill game. Or, at least, that was the theory after the project was unveiled, with netizens linking Abandoned to the iconic survival-horror series and assuming Kahraman was a stand-in for gaming auteur Hideo Kojima. (The two do share similar initials, after all, though Kojima has since denied being involved with Abandoned in any capacity.)
