Is This Nintendo's Mysterious Horror Game? Maybe Not, But It's a "Hugely Important" New Switch Game From Silent Hill 2 Remake Developer Bloober Team

Layers of Fear and Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober Team has quietly revealed that it’s working on something called Project M for Nintendo Switch, and I’m perhaps irresponsibly wondering if it has anything to do with the mysterious horror project Nintendo just revealed this week.

I mean, the timing is interesting, isn’t it? Nintendo surprise-drops a teaser for what appears to be its first full-fledged horror game in ages, and at almost the exact same time, Bloober Team reveals a horror project for Switch.

Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno recently told Polish news agency PAP Biznes (machine translation via Rely on Horror) that the “first announcements” of Project M will come “later this year” and that the project will “open our portfolio of secondary games under the Broken Mirror Games brand.”

And while Project M’s budget is “significantly lower” than games released under Bloober Team’s own brand, the studio still considers it “extremely important because of our long-term plans,” with Babieno adding, “We’re working on it in cooperation with the best game creators in the world for Nintendo platforms, so we can’t afford to just make a decent game.” Babieno also said that Project M is “a big development challenge because of its uniqueness.”

Let’s put the brakes on a bit. Bloober Team is opening a secondary brand, Project M is its first project, and it’s being worked on by top developers for a Switch release. I’m cautious about inferring too much from these quotes since they haven’t been translated by a human and thus may lack necessary context, and the message is a little vague to begin with, but on the surface this all seems like pretty big news for a major developer to drop without an accompanying international reveal.

Despite this coincidence, there’s no evidence that Project M is Nintendo’s Emio horror game. In the meantime, Bloober Team is aiming for the finish line with the Silent Hill 2 remake, which will be released on PS5 and PC on October 8.

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