Silent Hill 2 studio Bloober Team confirms they’re not remaking Rule of Rose, or anything else, for its mysterious new project

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Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill 2 Remake developer Bloober Team has set to retro gaming community alight over assumptions that the Polish horror games studio is working on a remake of Rule of Rose.

A late-era PlayStation 2 horror game developed by Punchline, Rule of Rose is one of the most expensive games for the 26-year-old games console. Some sealed copies of the PlayStation 2 title sell for over $1,000.

Released in 2006, the game saw very few copies released over a moral panic over content that was never actually in the game. (Hey, we see that a lot on Twitter nowadays.) However, following a recent teaser of the Bloober Teamโ€™s soon-to-be-announced horror game, many gamers assumed the team was hinting at a remake of the game.

โ€œIf this is teasing a Rule of Rose remake by Blooper Team that would actually be insane,โ€ said popular Twitter account Radec in response to the teaser. To be fair, the teaser did include an image of a red rose, the studio is known for remakes, and the studio is firmly situated in the horror genre. As a theory, it did make sense.

Unfortunately, for Rule of Rose fans, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno has confirmed that the studio isnโ€™t working on a remake of the PS2 game. In fact, the studioโ€™s mysterious project isnโ€™t a remake at all.

โ€œNice guess, but no,โ€ Babieno said on his personal LinkedIn account. โ€œIt definitely doesnโ€™t refer to any remake.โ€

Alongside the studioโ€™s upcoming mysterious game, Bloober Team is actively working on a remake of the original Silent Hill. After its fantastic recreation of the second game, that same team is recreating Harry Masonโ€™s original 1999 journey for modern consoles.

Very little is known about the studioโ€™s upcoming projects, although they are working on multiple games simultaneously. Thereโ€™s also no known release date for the upcoming Silent Hill remake, which is painful as I wish to wash my eyes of Return to Silent Hill as soon as possible.