We speculated as much earlier when the game’s Facebook page suddenly started posting again, but now it’s been confirmed by its creator: Allison Road is back from the dead and Chris Kesler is more determined than ever to finish it.

Under his new label, Far From Home, Kesler will be working on the game with his wife with no other assistance. Lilith Ltd was his team who were previously overseeing development on Allison Road.

In a statement to IGN, Kesler said:

“I’m actually really happy to be able to announce that [Allison Road] will continue. We had a lot of support online and some folks out there are just incredibly nice.”

Originally announced back in July of 2015, Allison Road was hailed as the successor to P.T. as they shared similar locations and aesthetics. Its trailer went mini-viral, leading to a Kickstarter campaign that received a lot of funding within its first week before the publishing rights were snapped up by Team17. Kesler couldn’t comment on the reasons behind the cancellation, presumably for legal reasons.

On how he got the drive back to start work again on allison Road, Kesler said:

“It did take a bit of soul searching to find the drive again to work on Allison Road and to simply make a call on what to do next. After the set back, I took a bit of a break from working on it and re-evaluated all the work that had been done so far — the whole journey, so to speak. I started making a few (in my opinion) necessary changes to the story and the flow, little bits and pieces here and there, and before I knew it, it sort of naturally came back to life.”

He also talked about the responsibility of taking on the brunt of the work by himself:

“For our gameplay trailer, I did all the modeling, texturing, shaders, lighting, etc., and thankfully a lot of the mechanics are already implemented from the previous development phase, so I can comfortably take the game forward by myself. If and when it comes to a point where new features and mechanics are required, or old ones need changing, I’ll go look for support.”

No release date has been set for the rejuvenated Allison Road, but considering how it’s now such a small team, it might take some time. No news on whether it will still come to PS4 and Xbox One or stick to PC, either.

Oh well, looks we’re excited all over again.

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