Konami is planning second and third waves of new Silent Hill games, according to producer Motoi Okamoto. The first wave included the Silent Hill 2 remake, Silent Hill f, and Silent Hill: Townfall. Two of those have had time to settle into the culture. One just came out and is doing better than the internet’s most cynical corners predicted. But is anyone actually surprised that a company sitting on a legendary horror franchise wants to keep making more of them?
Konami Seems Weirdly Relieved
Okamoto told Famitsu that all three initial titles released successfully and received high praise. He sounded like a guy who just parallel parked a Honda Civic in a tight spot. Konami is relieved, sure, but they are also looking at a number of projects for the future. Specifics remain hidden, which is corporate speak for we have no idea what we are doing yet, but please clap.
One Remake Was Not Enough
After Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills collapsed, Okamoto had to convince higher-ups that more games were the way forward. He thought that just one remake would not be enough. If only one game came out, people might assume development got canceled again. That is a fair fear when your company once canceled an entire playable teaser that everyone on the internet lost their minds over. Konami knows that trust is earned back one awkward melee swing at a time.
Townfall Takes a Trip to Scotland
Silent Hill: Townfall launched September 24, 2026, and dropped players into 1990s Scotland as Simon Ordell. The game is set in 1996 in St. Amelia, a fictional fishing town inspired by Scottish coastal villages. You play as a guy who washes up at the harbor with vague memories and an IV cannula stuck in his hand. Reviews are actually quite good.
Townfall sits at an 81 on Metacritic and OpenCritic, with 83 percent of critics recommending it. IGN gave it an 8 out of 10 and said it gives the series a welcome shot in the arm. A few outliers complained about clunky combat and a weak story, but those voices are the minority. Konami must be thrilled that the weird needle game worked.
IGN Ranks the Spooky Ones
IGN put together a ranking of the best Silent Hill games and wisely left out Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Downpour, Silent Hill: The Arcade, and Silent Hill: Book of Memories. Nobody asked for cooperative dungeon crawling in their psychological horror. Nobody. The list starts at number nine with Silent Hill: Origins.
Origins Fits in Your Jeans
Silent Hill: Origins came out in 2007 for the PlayStation Portable and later the PlayStation 2. You played as Travis Grady, a truck driver who takes a wrong turn into the foggiest town in North America. The game let you control when to shift between realities using mirrors. That removes some surprise scares but creates moments like examining fake organs on a mannequin in one world and finding an actual corpse in the other. Terrifying stuff for a bus ride.
The Room Has Holes in the Walls
Silent Hill 4: The Room moved the terror to South Ashfield and locked protagonist Henry Townshend inside his apartment. You alternate between first-person apartment exploration and third-person combat in otherworlds accessed through holes in the walls.
The apartment slowly turns from safe haven to haunted house. The second half has an escort mission that fans still argue about. But the creatures are disturbing, Akira Yamaoka’s soundtrack is haunting, and the decaying apartment hub remains one of the tensest ideas in the entire canon. Team Silent disbanded after this one, which still hurts.
Shattered Memories Broke the Wii
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories came from British developer Climax Studios and was the only entry on the Nintendo Wii. It reimagined the original game with Harry Mason searching for his missing daughter. There is no combat. You just flee from monsters like a slasher movie victim.
The game uses ice and snow instead of fog and even profiles you through psychotherapy sessions. Your answers change level designs, enemy behavior, and endings. Writer Sam Barlow later made “Her Story,” “Telling Lies,” and “Immortality.” The Wii speaker hissing radio static was genuinely unsettling, and I will not hear otherwise.
Silent Hill f Goes to Japan
Silent Hill f arrived September 25, 2025, as the first new mainline game in 13 years. It trades guns for melee combat and sets the whole thing in 1960s Japan, specifically the fictional town of Ebisugaoka. You play as high schooler Hinako Shimizu, whose parents have promised her in marriage to settle a family debt. The game centers on Japanese folklore and a fox-worshipping cult, with Hinako undergoing some genuinely gnarly body horror rituals.
Konami has pushed back on the Soulslike label, and honestly, their explanation holds up. The director said the dodge and stamina systems pull from Silent Hill 4’s charge meter and classic entries, not FromSoftware. The stamina bar and focus meter made people assume the worst, but the comparison was always a bit lazy. The story is one of the most captivating in the series. A Silent Hill game without Silent Hill should not work, yet it does.
Bloober Team Is Still Around
Bloober Team, the studio behind the Silent Hill 2 remake, confirmed in September 2025 that it is working on a remake of the original Silent Hill. Konami apparently learned that outsourcing to Western developers can work if you pick the right ones. Homecoming and Downpour are still sitting in the corner wearing dunce caps. Konami has not shared release dates or details for the second and third waves. Fans will just have to wait in the fog like everyone else.
Silent Hill Deserves the Comeback
The series spent years as a punchline about canceled projects and bad movie tie-ins. Now Konami has a genuine pipeline again. That is worth celebrating even if the company has burned trust before. Silent Hill works best when it explores trauma, guilt, and small towns full of horrible secrets.
More games means more chances to get that right. It also means more chances to get it wrong. Konami is betting on the former. I am cautiously betting alongside them, mostly because the needle wrist game was actually good.
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