All the Silent Hill games said to be in development
On Wednesday, Konami will officially kickstart Silent Hill with “the latest updates” on a series that has been dormant for a decade. It’s a moment that content-starved fans have been waiting for for years. But what will be shown?
We actually have a decent idea, as the rumor mill has been extremely busy around Silent Hill for the best part of two years now. So active, in fact, that it’s become rather confusing, with multiple projects mooted, and multiple developers said to be involved — some new to the series, some not.
Here we do our best to sort through the reporting out there and compile it into four main prospects. (Unless it’s three...)
The most concrete sign of Silent Hill activity in the lead-up to Konami’s reveal event was the Korean game rating body’s classification of a game called Silent Hill: The Short Message. The publisher is Uniana, which, as noted by Gematsu, regularly publishes Konami titles in South Korea.
The title implies a brief experience, and matches up with reports of a playable teaser in the style of P.T., the infamous demo for the Kojima Productions’ canceled series reboot, Silent Hills. Video Games Chronicle said that this teaser, codenamed Sakura, “is intended to be released as a free digital title to build anticipation for the larger [Silent Hill] projects.” It is not clear if it is a completely stand-alone experience or a preview of a new Silent Hill game.
VGC also linked the teaser to a series of images purporting to be from a new Silent Hill game which leaked in May 2022. Konami made a copyright claim against the images in an effort to take them offline (which both failed in its aim and confirmed their authenticity, as such claims tend to do).
The images are supposedly from 2020 and show
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