OD is shaping up to be one of the most curious new horror games that's currently in the works from Hideo Kojima.
Set to be a horror anthology of sorts, Kojima Productions dropped another trailer in late 2025 (with PT vibes) revealing OD: Knock, which is seemingly the title of the segment of the experience Kojima is working on with actors Sophie Lillis and Hunter Schaffer. Making another appearance during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast, Kojima spoke on the upcoming horror game, saying that OD is "progressing smoothly", and once again teased that this will test the thresholds of fear as a chilling experience "no one has ever seen before".
First revealed during the The Game Awards 2023 showcase, the new game is in the works in collaboration with Xbox Game Studios, after Kojima said his pitch for the horror sounded "crazy" to every publisher except Xbox. Speaking of Xbox, the other major upcoming Hideo Kojima game, Physint, is also now being published by Xbox after Kojima confirmed PlayStation dropped the stealth espionage game. But for a full breakdown of all things OD, read on below as we take you through everything that's been revealed so far.
OD (Overdose) gameplay experience
OD looks set to be horror anthology, with Kojima Productions revealing that "OD explores the concept of testing your fear threshold, and what it means to OD on fear."
The studio also says that it will do this "while blurring the boundaries of gaming and film", which is where things start getting a little more complicated. At The Game Awards, Kojima reaffirmed that OD "is a game, don't get me wrong" but then went on to note that "at the same time, it's a movie; and at the same time, it's a new form of media."
As part of this anthology, Kojima is working on a segment called OD: Knock, which is said to be based on "the fear of a knock". Academy Award winning filmmaker Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us, Nope) is also on on board to collaborate for anthology, with Kojima later revealing Peele is just one of "several talented storytellers involved in the project", with a host of big names said to be attached in a group he refers to as 'The Avengers'.
We don't yet know any more names involved in the project (beyond the actors mentioned below), but Kojima teases that whenever he shows the list of people who are a part of OD to his agents and managers "they can hardly believe it's true". How curious.
While we're still pretty light on gameplay details for the time being being OD's baseline concept, Kojima says he wants to "make something nobody has seen before", with Kojima revealing in 2026 in a 25th Xbox anniversary interview with Entertainment Weekly that he wants to "go beyond limit of the 'scariness' that other games reached", with OD said to include a mysterious system that will help you to keep going if you get too scared while playing.
OD cast
Hideo Kojima has unveiled the actors who will take starring roles in OD, although he is yet to confirm the names of the characters they will eventually play. It's likely to be a little while before we learn more about the OD cast, but you can find the current list of will star in the project here:
- Sophia Lillis (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)
- Hunter Schaffer (Euphoria)
- Udo Kier (Flesh for Frankenstein)
Schafer spoke on her experience doing mocap for the first time for OD in an interview back in July 2026. Expressing her love for "how much imagination is involved in filming something like that", Schafer added that "I just think Hideo is a genius and so lovely to work with."
During the Xbox Tokyo Games Show 2026 broadcast, Kojima also spoke on OD and showed some behind-the-scenes footage of Schaffer and Lillis performing, with Kojima saying that, "the team has delivered intense and outstanding performances, which I can't wait for you all to see".
OD teaser trailers
The first OD trailer was unveiled at The Game Awards 2023. The short teaser shows three of the core cast in what appears to effectively be motion-capture screen tests – floating heads on a black background, rendered by Epic's Unreal Engine 5 and MetaHuman technologies, as the eyes illuminate the lights and camera in front of them. You can watch the first teaser trailer for Hideo Kojima's OD above.
The second OD Knock teaser trailer sets a very unsettling scene, with some serious PT vibes. With text prefaces the teaser, certain lines of text are deliberately blocked out to keep us guessing, but what we can make out is intriguing in and of itself. "Ten years since the [redacted] horror [redacted, the opening scene reads. "The cursed [redacted] have once again [redacted] into the forbidden. "
We then see a door, with a mysterious card with a face symbol on one side that slides through its frame. We then see the other side of the card as its flipped over, which reads, "Light the fires to celebrate their", and the following two words are blurred out. It's all very mysterious. We then see OD's protagonist, played by Sophia Lillis, lighting candles as a knock on the door behind them gets louder and louder. Finally, the trailer closes out with a shot of Lillis' terrified expression as hands appear, and text teases that this is a game "for all players and screamers".
OD expected release date and platform speculation
The OD release date is still likely to be years away at this point. Creative director Hideo Kojima is certainly focused on it's development, but no release window has been set yet.
Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios announced their collaboration in 2022, explaining that the two development houses were working to utilize the power of the cloud. What that means for platforms is anybody's guess, but I'd suspect that it will land on Xbox Series X, PC, and mobile devices via Xbox Cloud Gaming and Xbox Game Pass.
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