Is this Nintendo's mystery horror game? Maybe not, but it is an "extremely important" new Switch game from Silent Hill 2 remake dev Bloober Team

Layers of Fear and Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober Team has quietly revealed that it's working on something called Project M for Nintendo Switch, and I'm perhaps irresponsibly wondering if it has anything to do with the mysterious horror project Nintendo just revealed this week.

I mean, the timing is interesting to say the least, right? Nintendo surprise-drops a teaser for what looks like its first full-blown horror game in ages, and almost exactly at the same time, Bloober Team reveals a horror project for Switch.

Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno recently told Polish newswire PAP Biznes (machine translation via Rely on Horror) that the "first announcements" of Project M will come "later this year," and that the project will "open our second-party portfolio under the Broken Mirror Games brand."

And while the budget for Project M is "significantly smaller" than games released under Bloober Team proper, the studio still views it as "extremely important due to our long-term plans," with Babieno adding, "We are working on it in cooperation with the world's best game creators for Nintendo platforms, so we cannot afford to create just a decent game." Babieno also said Project M is "a big development challenge due to its uniqueness."

Let's pump the brakes a bit. Bloober Team is opening up a second-party brand, Project M is its debut project, and it's being worked on by prominent developers for release on Switch. I'm cautious to infer too much from these quotes as they haven't been human-translated and thus could lack necessary context, and the message is a bit vague to begin with, but at first blush that all seems like pretty big news for a major developer to drop without an associated international reveal.

Regardless of the coincidental timing, there's no firm evidence that Project M is Nintendo's Emio horror game. Meanwhile, Bloober Team is gunning for the finish line with the Silent Hill 2 remake set to release on PS5 and PC on October 8.

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After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.