Report: The Silent Hill-like horror game Abandoned is in disarray

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Abandoned made a big splash when it came to light last year with a teaser that had many Silent Hill fans convinced that it was in fact a revival of Silent Hills(opens in new tab), the cancelled Hideo Kojima project. But it's been a rough ride ever since, as the promised release of a playable demo fell through; in March, developer Blue Box Studios deleted most of its tweets, leading some followers to believe that the project had been quietly cancelled.

Blue Box insisted it was not, but a new report from Gamespot(opens in new tab) suggests it could be in trouble. Multiple sources have told the site that progress on the game is effectively stalled, while creative direction has changed multiple times, from its original inception as a survival-horror game about being trapped in the forest with a bloodthirsty cult to a story about a «rampant» AI and, more recently, a game about vampires. 

Members of a private chat group describe lead developer Hasan Kahraman as «duplicitous and prone to mood swings,» and prone to arguing with other members of the group. Kahraman initially wanted to label a recent leak of Abandoned assets as fake, for instance, and only agreed to acknowledge that the assets were real after being convinced to do so by other members of the group. Sources said this sort of thing would happen often: Kahraman would share assets, they would go over poorly or be leaked, and then he would claim they were actually some sort of loyalty test, and not actual assets from Abandoned.

As it stands, Abandoned has reportedly returned to its original concept—a survival-horror story about a murderous cult—but sources told Gamespot that there's no evidence the game is actually being worked on at all.

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