Abandoned, the mystery PS5 game from the not-Kojima developer, shows signs of life again

A game most had written off has resurfaced in the strangest way. Users on the ResetEra gaming forum discovered that Blue Box Game Studios director Hasan Kahraman has a new title registered to his PlayStation account called Abandoned: Gospels of Blood. No trailer, no demo, no release date – just a name, which seems to suggest Kahraman may be trying to revive one of the PS5's most infamous projects.

To understand why even this tiny detail set off a wave of discussion, you have to go back to 2021. That April, Kahraman and his team unveiled Abandoned on the PlayStation Blog, describing it as a "cinematic, first-person horror survival-shooter" with photorealistic graphics and a detailed open world.

The project looked genuinely impressive, but a lot of players noticed how much it resembled Silent Hill. That observation quickly snowballed into a full-blown internet theory: Kahraman was just a front for Hideo Kojima, the two sharing similar initials and all. Kojima eventually denied any involvement publicly.

Kahraman had promised a full release in 2021 – complete with a dedicated PS5 app for screenshots, videos, and a demo. None of it materialized. Assets disappeared, social posts were deleted, and information dried up entirely.

The project became a textbook case of vaporware – publicly announced software that simply never arrived.

Then came another promise: a prologue, early 2022. Same story. It never came out, and the project faded into silence once more.

In June 2022, GameSpot published a report based on sources close to Kahraman. More than half a dozen people described a studio in disarray – broken promises, a toxic internal chat used to court business deals, and a director who, according to sources, spent more time playing Rainbow Six Siege than actually working on the game.

Blue Box Game Studios' X account has been silent since November 2022, when the team's last post thanked Kojima for addressing the conspiracy theories. The Netherlands-based studio has a YouTube channel with no videos, no other social media presence, and Kahraman himself appears to have no official accounts anywhere online.

Push Square, in a March 6 report, floated the possibility that Gospels of Blood could simply be a test registration – or yet another attempt to build hype around a project that may never see release.