Never BornGAMES

Allison Road

A photorealistic haunted-house demo drew millions of viewers and a publisher, but the team dissolved before its playable nightmare became a finished game.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY85/100
CATEGORYGames
LIFECYCLE2014—2016
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Quick facts

Existence state
Never Born
Peak stage
public demo or preview
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

A cancelled first-person survival-horror game developed by the British studio Lilith Ltd.

Set largely inside a suburban house, Allison Road asked players to reconstruct a family's disappearance while surviving a supernatural presence.

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Existence timeline

Development begins

Lilith starts building a domestic first-person horror game.

Prototype shown

A long gameplay demonstration attracts an international audience.

Crowdfunding launched

The team asks players to fund full production.

Team17 partnership

The Kickstarter is withdrawn after a publisher signs the project.

Cancellation announced

Lilith and Team17 end the production arrangement.

Independent revival attempted

The creator says development will resume, but no public build follows.

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Why it ended

Publisher Team17 and Lilith ended their agreement in 2016; a brief independent revival announcement produced no released game.

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Last confirmed trace

A thirteen-minute prototype demonstration, screenshots, a withdrawn crowdfunding page and creator statements remain online.
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What it left behind

The project became one of the clearest examples of independent horror inspired by the experience and subsequent removal of P.T.

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How we classified it

The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.

The strongest verified milestone maps to public_demo_or_preview under Arrival Score V1.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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