Hideo Kojima's Horror Game Has Been Years In The Making

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Overdose is the next game from Kojima Productions, and there’s a very good chance we’ll see it unveiled as part of Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. We don’t yet know what it is, what it looks like, how it will play, or if it even exists - but leaks point towards it being a survival horror experience from a studio that has long flirted with the field without diving in.

A recent interview from Norman Reedus that teased a Death Stranding sequel could have instead been referring to this, or Kojima has upped his ambitions with multiple projects in the works that aim to push this medium to new heights. Say what you will about him, but there are few creators in gaming who are willing to take chances on weird and wonderful ideas alongside a slew of blockbusters that have long grown predictable, and we should welcome whatever unexpected nonsense he dishes up when the time comes.

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Hideo Kojima finally sinking into survival horror feels like a long time coming. Through Metal Gear Solid, Zone of the Enders, and the ill-fated Silent Hills we’ve seen what the man and his team are capable of when they seek to unsettle the player with situations that make them vulnerable and like there’s no way to fight back. With the exception of Silent Hills - and P.T. remains one of the scariest games ever made - the scarier moments in Metal Gear Solid aren’t even primarily focused on horror, but instead exist as part of a wider landscape that uses narrative and mechanics to draw us in and subvert our expectations of what his games are capable of.

A stealth adventure focused on staying hidden and taking out guards evolved into a caper involving conspiracy theories,