Plans for the Future of the Horror Game Abandoned Have Mysteriously Disappeared

Remember that alleged PS5 exclusive Abandoned, which got a special “Realtime Experience” app that was a clip of nothing for five seconds? Those games whose genre the developer changed his mind in the middle of development? It was noted that the development team of Blue Box Game Studios recently removed most of the posts related to the game development plans from Twitter.

BLUE BOX Game Studios have now deleted most tweets that described specific future plans for their game “Abandoned”. 3 months ago they said there would be a playable demo “soon” and also …

— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) March 31, 2022

It’s not entirely clear what that means, but if it wasn’t suspicious before, it is now. According to the last announcement of the developers from the end of last year, we should have seen Abandoneda's tech demo, ie the prologue of the game, in the first quarter of 2022. Today that quarter is passing, and Abandoned has no trace or voice.

The whole story around this game is pretty bizarre and probably not the end of it. According to the developer, more than three million owners of the PlayStation 5 console have downloaded the "Realtime Experience" application with which they have not yet received anything more than five seconds of ordinary video. As a reminder, the game was announced for release in 2021, and the only trailer for it has been viewed 1.7 million times on the official PlayStation channel.