OD (video game)

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OD
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Developer Kojima Productions
Publisher Xbox Game Studios
Director Hideo Kojima
Producer Hideo Kojima
Designer Hideo Kojima
Writers
Engine Unreal Engine 5
Genre Horror

OD [a] [b] is an upcoming horror game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is being directed and produced by Hideo Kojima, who co-wrote it with Jordan Peele. The game stars Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier. [3] [4]

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The game will "explore the concept of testing your fear threshold, and what it means to OD on fear". [5] Kojima said he is "working with Xbox Game Studios and their cloud gaming technology to take on the challenge of creating a very unique, immersive, and totally new style of game—or rather, a new form of media". [6]

Development

Teaser poster featuring Sophia Lillis' character and subtitled "Knock" OD official poster.jpg
Teaser poster featuring Sophia Lillis' character and subtitled "Knock"

The partnership between Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios was revealed at the Xbox Developer Direct in 2022. [7] In November 2022, two and a half minutes of gameplay were leaked on a live stream recording of a phone and on Twitter, showing a fearful nurse at a hospital walking around with a flashlight. The video ends with the cryptic symbols forming to say "GAMEOVER" and "OVERDOSE". [8]

Kojima and Peele appeared at The Game Awards 2023 to officially unveil the game with a short trailer featuring Lillis, Schafer, and Kier. [9] Kojima described the project as "avant-garde", and in an August 2025 interview he stated that it will be "something totally different" and that "people will [either] love it or hate it", further remarking that he believes the real evaluations of the game will come in "ten to twenty years from now". [10]

Development was suspended in December 2024 due to the 2024–2025 SAG-AFTRA video game strike, [11] and was confirmed to have resumed in July 2025 following the release of Kojima's latest game, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach . [12] [13]

On September 23, 2025, a new teaser was released during Kojima Productions' 10th anniversary event that showed Lillis's character performing a ritual before being interrupted by the knocking of an unseen entity, as well as a promotional poster featuring the subtitle "Knock". [14] During the presentation, Kojima said that the game would revolve around different fears, citing the sound of knocking as one of his. Kojima stated that Peele would be handling a "different kind of fear", and that the game would be an episodic anthology video game with each episode having a different writer, with the other creatives participating apart from Kojima and Peele yet to be confirmed. [15] [16]

Throughout development, fans would make extensive comparisons between OD and Kojima's horror game P.T. - the playable teaser for Silent Hills which would eventually be taken down following the game's cancellation in 2015. OD began to be envisioned as a sort of spiritual successor to P.T. by some fans. [17]

Notes

  1. ↑ OD is a reference to the codename of the game, which is also short for "overdose". [1]
  2. ↑ The subtitle "Knock", also stylized in all caps, has been used in specific promotional material but has been indicated to represent a portion of the experience rather than the title for the entire project. Additional subtitles may follow. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Graham (8 December 2023). "Hideo Kojima is making a horror game with Jordan Peele and it's called OD". Rock, Paper, Shotgun . Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Warren, Tom (23 September 2023). "Here's a first look at Kojima's OD Xbox game". The Verge . Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Cooper, Dalton (8 December 2023). "Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele Reveal All-Star Cast for Xbox Exclusive Horror Game OD". Game Rant . Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Spangler, Todd (8 December 2023). "Hideo Kojima Teams With Jordan Peele for Upcoming Horror Game OD, Announces His Death Stranding Docu Will Stream on Disney+". Variety . Archived from the original on 23 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  5. ↑ West, Josh; Gould-Wilson, Jasmine (8 December 2023). "Hideo Kojima's OD: Everything we know so far". GamesRadar+ . Archived from the original on 23 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Webster, Andrew (8 December 2023). "Hideo Kojima teases mystery Xbox game OD". The Verge . Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  7. ↑ Cryer, Hirun (12 June 2022). "Hideo Kojima partners with Xbox for a mysterious new game 'no one has ever experienced'". GamesRadar+ . Archived from the original on 23 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  8. ↑ Frech, Ricky (12 May 2024). "Hideo Kojima's Upcoming Horror Game OD Has Leaked Gameplay Details". Comicbook.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2024. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  9. ↑ Patches, Matt (7 December 2023). "Kojima reveals OD, an immersive horror game collab with Jordan Peele". Polygon . Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  10. ↑ Nguyen, Kevin (30 July 2025). "Hideo Kojima: The Creator". SSENSE .
  11. ↑ Walker, Ian (2 January 2025). "Kojima says OD, Physint were both impacted by SAG strike". Polygon . Archived from the original on 3 January 2025. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  12. ↑ Corden, Jez (4 July 2025). "Hideo Kojima's "OD" is still in development with Xbox, at least for today". Windows Central. Retrieved 5 July 2025.
  13. ↑ Starkey, Andrew (8 August 2025). "Microsoft kills another Xbox exclusive but Hideo Kojima's OD is still alive". Metro . Retrieved 8 August 2025. ... apparently still in development... but there's still every chance it could be cancelled at a later date.
  14. ↑ Welsh, Oli (23 September 2025). "The P.T. vibes are strong in the first proper trailer for Kojima and Peele's OD". Polygon. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  15. ↑ Phillips, Tom (23 September 2025). "Hideo Kojima Reveals First Trailer for Xbox Game Studios Title OD". IGN. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  16. ↑ Scott McCrae (24 September 2025). "Hideo Kojima seemingly confirms that OD will be an anthology horror game with his segment based on the "fear of the knock"". GamesRadar+. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Purslow, Matt (24 September 2025). "Is OD Connected to P.T.? Hideo Kojima's New Horror Game Explained". IGN. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
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