Hill-Brooke

Project: Hill-Brooke (プロジェクト：Hill-Brooke - Purojekuto: Hiru - burukku) was a game planned to release in the 2020-2029 era of the game company Ocean Games. The game was planned to be a horror adventure game with spectacular graphics, much similar to the Konami-published P.T. that was released for the PlayStation Store a few years before Project: Hill-Brooke was initially conceptualized.

However, much like P.T., Hill-Brooke was sadly announced to be facing cancellation during one of Ocean Games "Ocean Announcements" online shows. During the same episode of the show, Ocean Games also announced many upcoming releases, with some examples being the upcoming reboot of the Oracle series, a sequel to the popular RPG Dragoneon, and another example being a remastering of the original Sly Fox game. Sadly, many of the other, bigger, announcements of the video overshadowed the cancellation of Project: Hill-Brooke, as no one knew exactly what it was going to be about so they weren't entirely excited.

The developers of the game were the Alpha Team, responsible for titles such as Neo Racer: Tetra (ネオレーサー：テトラ), and more. The team had recently developed the game Whisper, which had received multiple accolades for being a new take on first-person adventure titles. Project: Hill-Brooke was initially created to be a sequel to Whisper, however plans for that were scrapped soon into the game's development, with the team wanting to make something more original with new characters and a new world for the said characters to inhabit.

Unfortunately, the game didn't make it too far into development before getting the ax. Only a handful of work had been done on the game, with there only be concept art of what the game might have looked like. The project was said to be too ambitious, and in turn, too expensive for Ocean Games to consider making. Especially considering it was to be a brand-new I.P.

However, good things might've come from the canceling of Project: Hill-Brooke. The Alpha Team went on to start creating a new Neo Racer game, as the fans had been asking for one since the release of 2017's Neo Racer: Nebula on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, X-Box One, and the Samsung Zeo Plus. Along with the announcement of the said games above, the company also announced the development of a new Neo Racer installment, titled Neo Racer: Ender.