Hideo Kojima and Microsoft announced their partnership to build a new type of gaming experience back in 2022, and since then, not much has surfaced about this mystery project. Today, that streak came to a close at the Kojima Productions: Beyond the Strand livestream, where the first trailer for OD: KNOCK was revealed.
The trailer shows a character, played by Sophia Lillis, entering a gloomy room before lighting several candles. It"s not long before a door opens behind her and a shadowy figure approaches and grabs the character by the face. The teaser doesn"t reveal much, but fans are already speculating this project to be something like the P.T. interactive teaser, except as a full game.
While their roles have not been revealed yet, Hunter Schaffer and Udo Kier are involved in the project to play different characters too.
Written by Hideo Kojima in collaboration with Jordan Peele, OD is poised as a horror game that will "explore the concept of testing your fear threshold," according to the developer. As announced before, the title will be using Microsoft"s cloud technologies in some ways too, though no confirmations have arrived regarding how this will work exactly. Check out the teaser below.
"What an amazing, I"d say maybe teaser, or a glimpse," said Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer today. "When I first saw it, I saw something new, something slightly sinister, but also something that was extremely Kojima-san. OD is bold, it"s unique, and it"s unmistakably from this studio, which is just incredible. We"re deeply supporting the production. It"s our technical work on Unreal that we"re doing with the team, both with the kind of flashy stuff you"re seeing on the screen, but also a lot of behind-the-scenes work."
OD: Knock is being developed using Unreal Engine 5. A release window has not been announced yet, and neither have any launch platforms.