A “Silent Hill Transmission” event aired Wednesday, delivering on Konami’s promise of providing updates for a handful of projects coming to revive the long-dormant universe. Fans can expect three games, a movie, and one “whole new experience.”
Hours before the stream started, the video game company accidentally spoiled its own surprise that a Silent Hill 2 remake is coming to PlayStation 5 via a YouTube description. The unintended announcement was eventually deleted, but the brief trailer confirming its arrival was still a welcome sight—the franchise last blitzed gamers in 2012 with Silent Hill: Downpour, Book of Memories, and the Silent Hill HD Collection, as well as the movie sequel Revelation.
The Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Team is now available on wishlist for PS5, and will be a timed exclusive, limiting the title to PlayStation and PC for the first year of its release. The series’ second installment—often regarded as its best—originally arrived in 2001 on PS2, having kicked things off on the original PlayStation in 1999. It arrives on the heels of The Last of Us Part I, another PS5 remake of a survival-horror classic from many years and several consoles ago.
Konami producer Motoi Okamoto said one of the main goals has been “to preserve the atmosphere that made Silent Hill 2 so exceptional, while also modernizing many aspects of the game’s overall gameplay.”
He added that the team is “working closely with the original creators, including Akira Yamaoka and Masahiro Ito.”
A new game titled Silent Hill: Townfall was also revealed. The trailer doesn’t provide much information, but it’s certainly intriguing that Annapurna Interactive—a division of celebrated indie studio Annapurna Pictures—and NoCode Studios are involved.
Christophe Gans, who directed 2006’s Roger Avary-written movie but didn’t return for its sequel six years later, is set to helm Return to Silent Hill. Check out what he had to share about that below.
There’s also Silent Hill: Ascension to speculate about, a 2023 release deemed a “live, real-time interactive series” and a “whole new experience” (with no reset button) where, per Kotaku, players “can change outcomes, be part of the scenes, and shape the Silent Hill canon.”
The lengthy “Transmission” event concluded with the announcement that Silent Hill f, a brand new game set in 1960s Japan, is in the works.
Though the franchise’s aforementioned most recent entries all came in 2012, a Kojima Productions iteration that was in development, as the Guardian notes, “was announced via a short playable demo titled P.T., released in 2014 and widely considered the scariest video game experience ever made.” The project ultimately got scrapped.
