Ratings board reveals new details on the unannounced Silent Hill: The Short Message

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Fresh details about a previously leaked but unannounced Silent Hill game have emerged via the Australian Classification Board (ACB).

Last September, South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee classified Silent Hill: The Short Message, although further information about the project wasn’t confirmed.

Now, the ACB has revealed a host of new details about the game in its annual report, which was published on Monday.

According to the ratings board, Silent Hill: The Short Message is an “exploration‑based psychological horror game” that includes depictions of suicide and self‑harm. Its full text on the game, which includes some plot spoilers, has been republished in full below.

Following several leaks and plenty of speculation, Silent Hill publisher Konami officially revealed plans to revive the long-dormant horror series last October, when it announced that brand-new games were in the works alongside a Silent Hill 2 remake from developer Bloober Team.

The new games included Silent Hill Townfall, which is in development at Scottish studio NoCode and will be published by Annapurna Interactive), and Silent Hill F (pictured above), a “completely new story set in 1960s Japan featuring a beautiful, yet horrifying world”.

Silent Hill: The Short Message wasn’t one of the new games announced, but some of the details included in the ACB’s annual report match those included in another leak from May 2022.

Specifically, the ACB’s report mentions two characters, Maya and Anita, who were first referenced by reputable insider Dusk Golem, when they also published images supposedly taken from the game that were quickly removed in a copyright claim.

The images showed a messy room, a red corridor with notes covering the wall and a figure