Another semi-preserved idea was that the further away a player was from a Control Point, the chaotic shifting would be more common, which made it into the final cut as Control Points being areas where the Hiss would be purged from infecting the Oldest House. Several ideas were passed to make the Oldest House feel 'alive' by manifesting in unpredictable weather, climate, and other aspects of nature.

Building Shifts were intended to be more integral to the gameplay and exploration, but a lot of them never made it past prototyping as they presented too many complex technical issues.

The Ashtray Maze was originally called the 'Smoke and Mirrors' Maze, but the name was changed to fit the game's lore (as it's named after an ashtray that's an Object of Power).

There were also different puzzles, such as cracking open a safe and holding objects to form shadows in front of a projector.

Some the earliest versions of the motel featured more outwardly creepy and disturbing elements, such as a raven telling you a riddle or a room with a couch splattered in blood, and Jesse was more talkative and able to use her gun, but these were cut as they clashed too much with the subtler tone they wanted. The Oceanview Motel went through a series of interesting iterations.The character of Lin Salvador was also originally named Malcolm Rooney and had unique dialogue, differing from the finished product where only the Hiss' main conduit is able to speak. The entire scene with the Benicoff TV and subsequent fight with Lin Salvador was treated as the game's Money-Making Shot, and was thus tweaked a few times, with an alpha version of the establishing cutscene involving the swirling TV instead congealing debris into a more dense, abstract mass.One early version of the Panopticon featured a Nissan vehicle in a containment cell, seemingly as a nod to Nissan's Product Placement in Quantum Break.In the final product, most mooks simply spawn out of the Hiss' red smoke. The E3 demo suggested that the Hiss mooks would spawn in more dynamic ways, such as the sporadic floating corpses dropping down to attack Jesse, or even busting through walls in a surprise attack.

The game's alpha demo and the 2018 E3 demo revealed that in addition to broad ideas still in progress, Remedy tried out other content was vastly different from the final product:.

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