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Grab This Free Remake Of Horror Game ‘P.T.’ Before It Disappears

by Amanda Yeo  7 November 2018
P.T. Remake

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Halloween is over, but if you still want to cack your pants and ruin your sleep for at least the next week, then boy do we have the free fan-made video game remake for you.

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P.T., short for Playable Teaser, was a short PlayStation 4 game released by Konami in 2014. Designed to be a teaser for the then-upcoming Silent Hills, the free first-person horror was set in a strange, shifting house with impossible architecture and a weird maybe-baby in the bathroom sink. Players trekked through a never-ending corridor circuit, solving puzzles, avoiding ghosts, and having their heebies well and truly jeebied.

Though marketed as a peek into what Silent Hills would have to offer, P.T. was warmly received by horror aficionados as a terrifying game unto itself. The game eschewed gore for omnipresent terror to great effect, even assaulting the fourth wall – an incredibly effective horror technique which I hate.

Many of P.T.’s cryptic mysteries were practically impossible to solve without consulting online forums, and a community of puzzle-solvers quickly sprung up to dissect every aspect of the game.

A creepy baby from the P.T. Remake

However, after Silent Hills was cancelled in 2015, P.T. was removed from the PlayStation Store. Those who had already downloaded the game could keep it, but there was no way of downloading it again. If you exorcised it from your console, it was gone for good.

I deleted this devil game from my machine so the creepy baby can’t get me, and I have no regrets. But some people apparently don’t know that the terror emotion is your body telling you to nope out, and have been hoping to experience that P.T. cold sweat once more.

Fortunately, game developer Artur Łączkowski heard these strange masochistic cries, and has just released a fan-made remake of the game on PC for free.

“I hope that my remake of P.T. will wipe up your tears a little,” he wrote.

Previous developers have attempted to recreate P.T., however, these projects have historically met untimely ends at the hands of cease-and-desist letters from Konami. Though apparently aware of his predecessors’ fates, Łączkowski didn’t let them stop him from working on the project.

“Guys, if you didn’t done it yet, you can still play my P.T. Remake!” he tweeted. “Do it asap before Konami shut it down!”

I don’t want to die so could not bring myself to play it, but if you like inviting demons into your brain crevices, you can download the game here.