Hideo Kojima Should Make a New P.T.-Style Game, or Maybe I Will, Says Bayonetta and Devil May Cry Creator Hideki Kamiya

Okami and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya recently shared his thoughts on Hideo Kojima’s “lost” horror game demo P.T. and its enduring impact.

A collaboration between Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo del Toro, P.T. launched in 2014 as a free PS4 demo for the planned game Silent Hills. But when publisher Konami canceled Silent Hills in 2015, they removed P.T. from the PlayStation Store, rendering it un-downloadable. As a result, second-hand PS4 consoles with the demo pre-installed began selling for steep prices on platforms like eBay.

On X, where he frequently engages with— and sometimes blocks or unblocks—fans, Hideki Kamiya recently responded to someone hoping either he or Kojima would create another P.T.-style game. On September 5, Kamiya tweeted, “if it’s impossible to resurrect P.T., Kojima should make a new game in the same style,” adding: "if Kojima doesn’t do it, maybe I’ll give it a go. I hate horror though, so it wouldn’t be horror... plus, I have no ideas."

Kojima’s upcoming experimental horror game OD may help fill the void left by P.T. First revealed in 2023 through an enigmatic trailer, OD aims to “explore the concept of testing your fear threshold, and what it means to overdose on fear.”

Like P.T., OD is also a collaboration with a filmmaker—this time, Jordan Peele of Get Out fame. Hideo Kojima previously promised that OD will be something “no one has seen before,” though concrete details remain sparse. Kojima is set to host a special event in Tokyo later this month to mark ten years since his departure from Konami, where he’s expected to unveil further information about upcoming projects—possibly including more on OD.

Though Hideki Kamiya, creator of Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, began his career at Capcom on the original Resident Evil and its sequel, he has never developed a modern, photorealistic horror game like P.T. In a series of tweets last October, Kamiya noted that P.T.’s removal created a gap in the market that the Japanese indie hit The Exit 8 eventually filled. “The Exit 8 went viral, but it’s basically just a watered-down P.T.,” Kamiya remarked.

The Exit 8 is far less gory and objectively less frightening than P.T., yet it mirrors the demo’s looping corridor mechanic, cultivating unease as players search for subtle anomalies in its subway environment. Released on Steam in November 2023, the game sold rapidly and has since become a cultural phenomenon—even inspiring a film adaptation (which recently generated some controversy in Japan).

Despite saying he can’t play P.T. alone because it’s “too scary,” Hideki Kamiya holds deep admiration for Kojima and del Toro’s demo. He even went so far as to say that the ‘8-like’ sub-genre—games with similar settings and mechanics to The Exit 8, which surged after its breakout success—should truly be called ‘P.T.-like.’ “P.T. was really that revolutionary— with an unparalleled uniqueness, and I think it has strongly influenced subsequent game creators,” Kamiya said.

Speaking of Kamiya, he’s currently focused on Okami 2 for Capcom through his new studio, Clovers. Kamiya departed PlatinumGames in 2023 under somewhat murky circumstances.