Gamemaker recreates playable Silent Hills PS4 teaser PT in Unreal Engine

A 3D artist and game maker recreated Hideo Kojima’s playable teaser of the canceled PS4 horror game Silent Hills in the Unreal Engine. The short game runs on Windows and has support for vr, including motion control, although there still seem to be some issues with that.

Developer RadiusGordello calls the project Unreal PT. The original is now no longer available because rights holder Konami has stopped distribution. Those who still have PT on their PlayStation 4 won’t be able to get it back if they delete it. The game is an almost complete reconstruction of the console version and will be the only opportunity for many gamers to try PT for themselves.

The maker spent about nine months recreating the game. In his own words, he made textures, models, animations and code completely himself. He did copy the models of Lisa, Norman, the baby and the radio. The textures of certain photos are also copies and the audio comes from the original. In terms of content, “only the ending has been adjusted, to make it a bit more reliable to play”, he says.

For those interested in the development process RadiusGordello has gone through over the past nine months, he has put two blog posts online. The creator has turned off the option to donate at the time of download. He doesn’t want to monetize this project, which is probably because he doesn’t own the copyright to PT. So it’s also possible that Konami will tell him to take Unreal PT offline.

Hideo Kojima, filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro and actor Norman Reedus collaborated on PT and Silent Hills under the banner of game publisher Konami. Unfortunately, relations between Kojima and Konami had deteriorated to such an extent that the game maker left Konami. However, Silent Hills remains the property of Konami and has been cancelled. The trio are currently working on Death Stranding.