Hideo Kojima's P.T. Is Making an Unofficial Comeback on PC

P.T., the PlayStation 4 teaser that revealed Hideo Kojima's canceled Silent Hills, is being rebuilt as an unofficial native PC port more than a decade after Konami removed it from the PlayStation Store.

Developer LoreanXavier is reverse engineering the original PS4 executable and rebuilding the game's logic and rendering for Windows using C++ and Vulkan. Unlike previous fan recreations, the project is designed to run using the original P.T. data rather than rebuilding the experience from scratch in another engine.

LoreanXavier says the current build can be played from the initial setup screen through to the ending, including the voice-recognition sequence used during the teaser's final puzzle. The project is also running P.T.'s original Lua scripts, environmental traps, cutscene streams and Lisa's animation rig using data from the PS4 version. Speech recognition has been rebuilt to work offline.

Rendering is being recreated from the original PS4 shaders, with features including shadows, reflections, depth of field, motion blur, bloom, film grain and the volumetric fog used during the ending. LoreanXavier has demonstrated the progress with a full playthrough lasting around 30 minutes and is comparing the PC version against the PS4 original to identify visual and behavioral differences.

The port also removes some of the technical restrictions of the original release. The developer says it can run above 60 FPS, supports different resolutions, and includes mouse and keyboard controls alongside DualSense and Xbox controller support. Optional AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling has also been implemented.

The distinction matters because P.T. has already inspired numerous unofficial recreations since it disappeared from PS4. Those projects generally rebuild the hallway and its events in engines such as Unreal. LoreanXavier's approach instead recreates the software needed to interpret the original game's data directly on Windows, with the goal of matching the PS4 release as closely as possible.

Users will still need to provide their own P.T. data for the project to work. LoreanXavier does not plan to distribute Konami's original game assets alongside the port.

That requirement could also make the project difficult for many players to use. P.T. has not been available through the PlayStation Store since 2015, and official redownloads were disabled even for users who had previously added the teaser to their libraries.

LoreanXavier says the port is around 97% complete but has not announced a public release date, with further accuracy and compatibility work still underway.

The PC project is not connected to Konami, Kojima Productions or the original creators of Silent Hills.

P.T. launched unexpectedly on PS4 in August 2014 and initially hid its identity behind the fictional 7780s Studio. Completing the teaser revealed that it was promoting Silent Hills, a new entry directed by Hideo Kojima with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro involved and Norman Reedus set to star.

Konami canceled Silent Hills in 2015 and later removed P.T. from the PlayStation Store, leaving the teaser unavailable through normal digital distribution.

That makes the Windows project a preservation effort rather than a revival of the canceled game itself. Silent Hills remains canceled, but LoreanXavier's work could provide another way for the original P.T. experience to survive beyond the PS4 hardware it was built for.