OD (video game)

OD^[a] is an upcoming horror game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Xbox Game Studios. It stars Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier.^[3] Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele served as writers.^[4]

OD
Developer(s)	Kojima Productions
Publisher(s)	Xbox Game Studios
Director(s)	Hideo Kojima
Producer(s)	Hideo Kojima
Designer(s)	Hideo Kojima
Writer(s)	Hideo Kojima Jordan Peele
Engine	Unreal Engine 5[1]
Genre(s)	Horror

It will "explore the concept of testing your fear threshold, and what it means to OD on fear".^[5] Kojima stated he is "working with Xbox Game Studios and their cloud gaming technology to take on the challenge of creating a very unique, immersive, and totally new style of game—or rather, a new form of media".^[6]

Development

The partnership between Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios was revealed at the Xbox Developer Direct in 2022.^[7] In November 2022, two and a half minutes of gameplay were leaked on a live stream recording of a phone and on Twitter, showing a fearful nurse at a hospital walking around with a flashlight. The video ends with the cryptic symbols forming to say "GAMEOVER" and "OVERDOSE".^[8]

Kojima and Peele appeared at The Game Awards 2023 to officially unveil the game with a short trailer featuring Lillis, Schafer, and Kier.^[9] Kojima described the project as "avant-garde", and in an August 2025 interview he stated that it will be "something totally different" and that "people will love it or hate it", further remarking that he believes the real evaluations of the game will come in "ten to twenty years from now".^[10]

Development was suspended in December 2024 due to the 2024–2025 SAG-AFTRA video game strike,^[11] and was confirmed to have resumed in July 2025 following the release of Kojima's latest game, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.^[12][13]

Notes

1. OD is a reference to the codename of the game, which is a short for 'overdose'^[2]