Hideo Kojima has acknowledged a fan-made PC port of P.T., IGN reports, drawing fresh attention to the horror teaser for his canceled Silent Hills project.
The port is being developed by LoreanXavier, according to GameRant. In an October 1 gameplay upload under the name Lorean The Gamer, the creator describes a native Windows build that uses the original PS4 game’s data and is about 97% complete.
A strange kind of lost media
P.T. arrived on PS4 in 2014 as a mysterious free horror game. Solving its cryptic puzzles revealed a teaser for Silent Hills, a project involving Kojima, Guillermo del Toro and Norman Reedus. Konami canceled that game in 2015 and pulled P.T. from the PlayStation Store, as GameRant recounts.
Then even previous players lost the official route back in. On May 6, 2015, GameSpot reported that it had tested redownloading P.T. and could no longer do so, even with an account that had downloaded it before. Having the teaser in your library was no longer enough. Keeping it installed on a PS4 suddenly mattered.
That made P.T. an unusual kind of lost media: a game people had played, documented and dissected, surviving on consoles while its official distribution disappeared. An IGN retrospective describes how fans continued searching its looping hallway for secrets after its removal. The mystery now included how you could get inside at all.
The scarcity had a price. In May 2015, Ars Technica examined completed eBay sales and found one PS4 bundle containing P.T. and several other games had sold for $1,800. A once-free download had become the draw for an expensive secondhand console.
Bringing the hallway to Windows
The new port attempts to carry that original experience onto another platform. Its creator describes reverse-engineering the PS4 executable and rebuilding the game in C++ with Vulkan graphics, using original game data rather than recreating P.T. in another engine.
According to the gameplay upload’s description, the build works through the ending, including the voice-recognition puzzle, and supports 60-plus fps, mouse and keyboard controls, modern controllers and optional AMD FSR 3.1 or Nvidia DLSS. Those features remain the creator’s claims about an unfinished project.
The creator has not announced a release date and says the project is unaffiliated with Konami and distributes no game files. Players will need their own copy. The port could give P.T. a life beyond the PS4, but it does not supply the missing game to people who never had it.
