P.T. (Playable Teaser) was a PS4 exclusive demo built by Kojima Productions under the alias 7780s Studios. 7780 is the size of Shizuoka, Japan in km². 'Shizu' means 'Calm' and 'Oka' means 'Hill'. Therefore 7780s equals Silent Hills. The game Silent Hills was cancelled by Konami for unknown reasons, but the game heavily involved Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro, Junji Ito and Norman Reedus - who all later starred in Death Stranding.
The demo is unable to be downloaded since 2015 as Konami removed all traces of the game from the PlayStation store. However, it can still be downloaded on a PS4 if the user has downloaded it before. In fact, there is such a demand for this demo there are (at the time of writing) listings on eBay of PS4's for sale with P.T. downloaded selling for at least £300.
The game itself is a first person horror title, but it does not function like a typical video game. There are no clear objectives apart from radio broadcasts, there is no UI, there are no weapons or any ways to fight back. The player is mostly an observer, only able to interact with certain objects, move and look around. The player character is not identified in the game, but since the game has been datamined (i.e. has had it's files explored and extracted by hackers), it's revealed to be modelled after Norman Reedus.
The game makes heavy use of loops, and familiar places become altered rapidly, making a playthrough very suspenseful. It's designed in such a way that less watchful players may miss slightly changes in the environment through each loop, so play times can vary massively. The goal of the game is to watch a Silent Hills trailer, but this only becomes available after a series of events. There is also an image of the layer walking through a foggy city, presumably
Silent Hill. Interestingly though, the area is fully modelled and can be explored through hacking the game.
There is only one character in the game (apart from the player and a creature) - a ghost named Lisa. She is always smiling and haunts the player throughout the experience. Sometimes she will just taunt the player or appear for a moment to frighten them. She can also 'possess' the player, leading to some unusual gameplay. Other times she will outright attack and kill them. Her story is that she was pregnant, and her crazed husband killed her by shooting her in the eye and in the stomach, and also killed other members of her family, and later committed suicide. Thus, she returned as a ghost, haunting whoever entered her home.
There is no fail state in the game, if the player gets attacked they are simply dragged back to the beginning of the current loop.
