Uh oh. Remember Abandoned, the mysterious game from indie developer Blue Box Game Studios? The PlayStation 5 exclusive that gathered momentum because people thought Kojima might be trying to fool us? Yeah, so, that's coming back.
If you log into your PS5 and push the PS button, open up the news card and scroll down a bit. There you'll find a discreet update about Abandoned. It reads, "We are excited to announced that the Prologue chapter releases Q1 2022. A specific date will be announced shortly. Stay tuned!"
The much delayed experience app released on PS5, but currently, it only features a tiny teaser, showing off brief seconds of in-engine footage running in real time. This Prologue chapter, as far as we understand, is to be a playable demo of sorts. On Blue Box's website, a Playable Prologue is mentioned, and described as "a standalone game with its own set of [Trophies] on PS5". Presumably, that's what this bulletin is referring to.
It's definitely fair to feel sceptical about this considering how things have gone for this project throughout the year, but if a Prologue chapter is indeed coming within the next couple of months, we'll certainly give it a shot. Are you excited to see more of Abandoned early next year, or are you totally turned off the whole thing? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source blueboxgamestudios.com]
Comments (45)
Godjima is coming.
Godjima is coming.
Godjima is coming.
Fool me once…. Shame on Godjima… fool me twice…. Shame on Godjima.
*No Shame was brought on Godjima.
Please insert gif of the Bristolian lady saying “not another one”
No one expects this game.
Yawn 🥱
(some other words so I can post the comment)
People still pay attention to this hoax?
The prologue is another five-second teaser. You get one trophy every second and then you grind out replays for the rest.
February seems far away to get some real ps5 news..
Haha yea I'm not falling for this crap again, if it comes might give it a go, but honestly I'm done with this it's such a joke. The app for the trailer was just pathetic tbh.
If something dropped at The Games Awards I honestly would not be surprised at this point. Timing of the update is quite a coincidence, unless Bluebox are deliberately using the timing to further mislead
I'm not saying this is Silent Hill / MGS / Kojima related. But I bet this is something bigger than "just another indie game". And I'll go down with this ship. And I'm ready to wear that clown costume.
Oh god plz not again
i will laugh if this is a game awards annnouncement.
In-app experience
This is Kojima's greatest prank yet.
Abandoned will be a Metal Gear third person Moby Dick shooter, with horror and courier elements.
Starring Norman Reedus, of course.
“Prologue Chapter” has me disappointed if that means it’s an episodic release game. Perhaps it is a fancy way to say it’s a “demo” or “interactive trailer” but the game is even more DOA if they think they can do an episodic release format after the way they’ve teased gamers and dragged this out.
No interest at all, company with their history of unfinished games
"Ok I believe you"
Not this nonsense again
Meh. Will see what the Game Awards announces.
I’m like 99% sure this is just some elaborate grift of their investors.
@commentlife yeah riding social media hype once in a while to show "value" is a tactic that seems to work surprisingly well at times. Maybe not the case. But no reason currently to think otherwise.
Whoop! I love this farce!
Just finish your game and announce it when it's ready.
Can't this thing just piss off already. 2 years of hype for a Ratalaika walking simulator.
To quote one of those memes that the kids like, this is what happens when you buy David Lynch from wish.com
'more info' and 'shortly' 😂 almost as vague as this thing is vaguely a game
I forgot this had existed. I'd not have given an update until everything is complete and ready to ship, personally.
When does the lying stop ?
i don't even know if i can find any excitement for this , i'll check it out , but they took way too long with this.
Hahahahaha
Right, there was this game with all these bs news but without gameplay and concrete infos…
I heard the delay was because of a breakdown in talks over the use of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. Blue Box know it’s dead on arrival if they launch without it.
The timing of this info is no doubt to make people think that Kojima's going to reveal Abandoned's true form at the Game Awards.
Well would you look at that. Abandoned isn't abandoned yet. But sadly I think a lot of folks have abandoned Abandoned. Myself included. I'd love to be wrong but word of mouth would have to be very VERY positive to get this back on my radar. I've already abandoned all hope for Abandoned.
Silent Hill announcement at Game Awards then? Sorry 'Abandoned'
I just want them to fade away and I never have to hear about their horribly mismanaged sure to be a disappointment game ever again.
This is going to end up being one of those low-res match 3 games, isn't it? At this point, that might be considered an improvement.
2022...Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah blah blah...then 2023...2024...Zzzzźzzzzzzzzzzzzz I can't believe SONY are letting this drag on and on for!?!? Really disappointed in SONY and PlayStation I really am about all this :-/
The timing is a bit sus…& they do have a relationship with Keighley. I would not be surprised if this turned up at TGA’s.
@Fight_Teza_Fight Did I hear someone say........SUS?!
AMOGUS ඞ there is an impostor AMOGUS ඞ
This reminds me of my childhood, story time! (oh pushsquare overlords please don't ban me, this is just a joke):
So, last Sunday my parents made me go to church ,which made me really mad because my parents don't let me play Among Us in church.
We took our seats and the priest was up front talking about "salvation" and "holiness" or whatever. Same thing as last week.
But then, he said something that really caught me off guard. He spoke of a man who goes by the name of "Jesus."
"Jesus."
"JeSUS."
No way. I could not believe what I was hearing.
Endorphins were rushing to my brain and my body began to shiver as I let out a quiet moan.
If you didn't catch on by now, the word "Jesus" has "SUS" in it, which is a reference to the popular video game "Among Us."
"WHEN THE IMPOSTER IS SUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I screamed louder than I ever have in my life. My words echoed throughout the room for five seconds before fading into complete silence.
Everyone was staring at me as I had a huge grin on my face, perfectly replicating the face from the "when the imposter is sus" meme (Google it if you don't know what it is.)
They all had this look on their faces as if I had just slaughtered 7,924 Afghanian children.
"Why do you all have that look on your faces? Did someone do a Fortnite dance?"
And there was still complete silence. I actually had to make sure I wasn't wearing my noise cancelling headphones that I always wear while playing Among Us. I could not believe that not one person in the room was dying of laughter!!
"Young man, please be quiet" said the priest.
He was literally the one who made the Among Us reference in the first place. What's his problem?
"THAT'S NOT VERY WHOLESOME!!!!!!!!!!"
This guy was definitely the imposter. There's no way he couldn't be.
I Naruto ran faster than anyone has ever Naruto ran before. Even Naruto himself would be proud of me.
As I was making my way up to the imposter, the security guard was chasing after me!
I had to think fast.
After being chased around the room for two minutes, I hastily undid my pants and p**d in the security guard's eyes. As he was being blinded by my p**, he was stumbling around and bumped into the wall very hard.
A crucifix fell off the wall and died. He fell and a pool of blood soon formed around him.
Everyone in the church was screaming and running out the door. I slammed my hand down on the crucifix, replicating the button you press in Among Us, which drove the crucifix further into his skull.
"EMERGENCY MEETING!!!!!!!!!!!"
No one laughed. They were too busy screaming to notice. Whatever.
I went up to the priest. I replicated the Big Chungus pose with 100% accuracy.
"You probably don't even use Reddit. That's not very keanu chungus wholesome 100 of you. Go subscribe to r/atheism."
The priest had a look of shock on his face when I said that. The kind of face one would make if they caught their beloved child playing Fortnite.
He held a cross in front of himself and started talking about "possession" and "demons." He obviously doesn't know how to play Among Us so naturally, I felt bad for him.
But he was still the imposter.
I grabbed him and threw him across the church, sending him crashing through the window and slammed against the street outside.
Then, I heard sirens and a helicopter flying around above the church. I went upstairs to the roof to check out what was going on.
"This is the police! Get down from the roof now or we will shoot!"
This guy is so sus, let me tell ya.
Obviously, I was not going to listen to an imposter so I was Naruto running around the roof. Bullets from the helicopter were raining down from above but none of them hit me since I was Naruto running so fast.
"Dammit, I can't hit him!"
I knew I had him beat then.
So, I pulled out my gun (I always keep a glock in my foresk*** so I can pull the Among Us death animation)
I shot at the helicopter and it started spinning out of control and crashed into the front of the church, causing a huge explosion.
The roof started sliding off from the building, which landed on the cop cars and killed 8 cops. This also flung me into the street and I broke my foot, which was very sus.
I limped all the way to the woods where I am now hiding and writing this. I will update as soon as I can but I need to get out of here soon because I can hear people looking for me.
Oh no, not this again....
Zzzzzz
zzzzz.. not this abandoned game
The game that keeps on delivering...nothing of value.
@lolwhatno it's a real mystery why people think gamers are socially awkward nerds
@Dislecksieroh no lmao, warn me before calling us out like that lol!
But seriously tho, I hate among us because Among Us (coloquially termed "amogus") teaches us to punish the minority and hate those who are different and unique as "impostors." Instead, I like the breath of fresh air this problem provides as a new perspective on deduction that is not "red is sus, red vented, etc." that has been dominating the jokes of my peers and the view of my feed. Yet, by trying to force this problem to conform to "amogus," you yourself are trying to crush originality and uniqueness. Among Us is a game ultimately convincing us to conform to menial labor as "tasks" and accept the deal of being just like the rest of the crewmates.
All this time and all they have is a playable demo. And by 'playable' they be like "y'all being played".
I literally skipped the post altogether just to read the comments. More fun than reading about the game!
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