2022 came and went, and the studio became a ghost.
You might think that its simply stuck in development hell.
Perhaps likeHollow Knight: Silksongwell hear about it when the developer is ready.
Abandoned has been abandoned.
Obviously, that didnt happen.
I signed up to this a few weeks ago, but that too led nowhere.
The promise that We will be right back!
was also swapped for a much less time-pressing We are updating the website at the end of 2022.
Reaching out to its old contact email for more information nets you a Message blocked error.
Every single means of contact is blocked off.
Blue Box Game Studios was founded in 2014 as a software publisher with only 11 to 20 developers.
It started drumming up hype for its new game Rewind just a year later.
Abandoned is a survival horror game from Blue Box Game Studios, notable for its tenuous links to Hideo Kojima and Silent Hill. As the kidnapped Jason Longfield, your mission is to survive a forest and find your way back to civilization.
You would play as paranormal investigator Jim Walker, communicating with ghosts via an EVP to solve puzzles.
Blue Box promised 30 side stories, different endings, a dynamic narrative, and even VR support.
Rewind was all but dead, with little more than an empty pledge that it was still in development.
But then Blue Box announced The Lost Tape, going back to the original concept of Rewind.
The Lost Tape is a paranormal investigation game that used to be the older game concept of Rewind.
Ever since we changed Rewind to be a cinematic experience, The Lost Tape has become the original game.
2016 came and went without either releasing.
Now called The Whisperer the scope was once again unbelievably unrealistic.
Blue Box promised it would be an enormous open world with two player online co-op and VR support.
Then it was rebranded to Unseen Faces in 2018.
This kept going and going and going until finally the studio launched The Haunting in 2020.
This game has never worked reads one review.
Abandoned is a survival horror game from Blue Box Game Studios, notable for its tenuous links to Hideo Kojima and Silent Hill. As the kidnapped Jason Longfield, your mission is to survive a forest and find your way back to civilization.
The Haunting was also abandoned.
Much like every other Blue Box Studios game, Abandoned was abandoned.
The only difference this time is that the studio itself was abandoned, too.
