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Game
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Silent Hill Homecoming
Developer Double Helix Games
Silent Hill: Homecoming is a 2008 survival horror game developed by Double Helix Games and published by Konami. The sixth installment in the Silent Hill series, Homecoming follows the journey of Alex Shepherd, a soldier returning from war, to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen, where he finds the town in disarray, and his younger brother missing. As he continues on his search to find his younger brother, he discovers… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
311 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
45
Mixed
92 positive · 113 negative
95% range 38–52%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 92 | 113 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 20 | 19 | 62 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 1 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
825 of 1,950 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
42% recommend · 83 yes, 116 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 199 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (1,923 of 4,050 positive).
Players widely agree the PC port is broken, requiring community patches to run. [1][2][3] Some find the game itself enjoyable despite its flaws. [4][5][6] Others consider it a weak entry in the series. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
Played this back in the day on the Xbox 360 and thought it was one of the better games in the SH series. So I grabbed a copy of the Steam version to replay on my ROG Ally after many years. Game ran fine for me, zero crashes, had controller support and still holds up pretty well today. If you’re a fan of the SH series, this is worth checking out. I’ve noticed a few people commenting about the game randomly crashing …
- [13]
i love this game but the crashes are insanely bad and the reason why is bad because the game dont AUTO SAVEEEEEEEEE like WHYYYY i havent even played this game properly because of the CRASHESS and i wanna play the game but i cant... HOW CAN THEY FIX THIS ISSUE BRO I JUST WANNA PLAY THE GAME AND NOT CRASH EVERY 10MIN AND THE SAVE POINTS ARE JUST NOT THERE. This game is good but beware to waste ur time alot because of …
- [2]
Game is actually not that bad to be fair. It's definitely one of the weaker silent hill games out there, just not as horrible as some people make it out to be. The negative review is not for the game, just the broken pc port. It's genuinely unplayable so don't waste your money.
- [8]
Wow, is this bad. Just wow. To start off, you need fan patches to even run this mess. However, not even patches can salvage the game from the choppy framerate and crashes during loading. When the game decides to run, you get subjected to the worst combat in the series by a comfortable margin. And they really want you to do the combat. No running past obstacles for you, kid. Puttig up with the controls of this game …
- [3]
The real horror in Silent Hill: Homecoming isn't the monsters—it’s the PC port. Even years later, the Steam version remains a technical wreck. Why the PC Port Fails The Bugs: Out of the box, it suffers from frequent crashes, broken Quick Time Events (QTEs) tied to frame rate, and audio that desyncs or cuts out entirely. The "Patches": Community fixes like UnknownProject are heroic efforts, but they’re band-aids. …
Summarised from 34 of the 284 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
The crowd is split on Silent Hill Homecoming: 83 recommend it, 116 don't. Which camp are you in?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Homecoming's average at Metacritic is 71 out of 100 for the PS3 version, 70 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version and 64 out of 100 for the PC version. As the second external developer working on a Silent Hill entry, and the first for a home console iteration, Double Helix were under scrutiny from reviewers and Silent Hill fans to see how a Western developer would handle the franchise; many reviewers found the change in developer to be a positive move overall, while some, acknowledging faults in the final product, expressed interest in seeing further Silent Hill games from the same developer. In contrast, Zero Punctuation commented that the game was as an example of Japanese franchises being…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 311 · most liked firstGame 20 of 2026: Silent Hill Homecoming Felt like an action horror with SH slapped on. Dodging felt extremely clunky. Game disregarded existing SH lore. Pyramid Head is exclusively tied to James, yet he's here because Konami wanted some fanservice. Music was great tho. Onto Downpour.
negative · AI labelView post →Watching a longplay of Silent Hill Homecoming... Man... it's such a shame how the game has so many interesting ideas and yet its execution was so... not Silent Hill...
negative · AI labelView post →I co-wrote the manual for Silent Hill: Homecoming, I'm pretty sure it was that one. I had a video game job before my comic book job and it was always nice to get to touch stuff that touched my heart as a kid. I would never call it an honor because it's work, though. anyway, ban remakes
neutral · AI labelView post →To get this to run you will need the "4gb_patch" from NTCore, this lets the game use 4gb of ram and will stop start up crash, you will also want the "unknownproject" "Version 3.10 All-In-One" patch, this fixes the capped 30fps bug and Controller Support To set to Borderless, <path-to-game>\Engine\, open "vars_pc.cfg" and change "FullScreen=true" to "FullScreen=false" you can then use Borderless gaming to force Borderless
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is actually not that bad to be fair. It's definitely one of the weaker silent hill games out there, just not as horrible as some people make it out to be. The negative review is not for the game, just the broken pc port. It's genuinely unplayable so don't waste your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My sister bought Silent Hill Homecoming for PS3 So we playing through it
neutral · AI labelView post →After some patching and tweaking this game is playble and enjoyable. Shame that konami doesn't release every silent hill on steam :(
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its only really worth playing if you want to play ALL of the Silent Hill games. In that case, you'll already be using a ps3 emulator for SH3, and you should probably just do the same for Homecoming. The PC port is buggy, broken, and made for Windows Vista. You need to install 3rd party patches for it to even be playable, and even then its pretty rough. For the actual game, Its not that bad. Its pretty buns compared to the Team Silent games, but it really doesn't deserve to be the SH…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got it on deck. Doesn't work. So I refunded the games and got it on Xbox. Worth it. Loved it. Please don't come after me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SH: Homecoming is a mid game and even lower mid silent hill game. It was a good enough first attempt from a western studio to try and keep the franchise alive, and I personally dig the beats it borrows from the Silent Hill movie. It's not a bad game to get on sale, finish in 10~ hours and move on to the next... ...but it IS a bad game when it comes to the PC version. I don't believe I've seen such a lazy broken port: - Locked 30FPS - I'm not convinced that the resolution switcher works, game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →everyone is leaving negative reviews because the game crashes too much. But It's really a good thing because it means you don't have to play the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this back in the day on the Xbox 360 and thought it was one of the better games in the SH series. So I grabbed a copy of the Steam version to replay on my ROG Ally after many years. Game ran fine for me, zero crashes, had controller support and still holds up pretty well today. If you’re a fan of the SH series, this is worth checking out. I’ve noticed a few people commenting about the game randomly crashing for them and the only thing I did before starting my playthrough was use the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, is this bad. Just wow. To start off, you need fan patches to even run this mess. However, not even patches can salvage the game from the choppy framerate and crashes during loading. When the game decides to run, you get subjected to the worst combat in the series by a comfortable margin. And they really want you to do the combat. No running past obstacles for you, kid. Puttig up with the controls of this game is the true survivor horror here. As for the story, its is a patchwork of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PC gamers must've had it rough when this was the only Silent Hill game available on Steam before the Silent Hill 2 Remake and Silent Hill f.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You need to use a patch. Because this game originally for Playstation2. And konami didnt fix controls. Otherwise you cannot play this in pc. You can use Unknownproject's Lair.- Reverse engineering stuff. [https://unknownproject.github.io/silent_hill.html ] After this patches you can play it. Its a good game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →well, what can you really expect from such an old game i guess? i don't even think that i got out of the tutorial before i quit because if i minimize the game, it ALWAYS crashes when i boot it back up. this is especially bad because iv been trying to stream silent hill games to my cousin over discord while we hang out. maybe ill try this again if they ever fix this but i doubt that they will.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah i am sorry but this is one of those games you just gotta watch a summary video on YouTube instead of playing the actual game. Think of one godamn awful PC port, the game is literally unplayable most of the time and heavily relies on community mods in order to work. But even with the mods installed the game will still crash, making you lose all of your progress if you didn't reach a save point. If i read the reviews i probably wouldn't have wasted 7 BRL on this, atleast it was on sale but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LIVE -- Catchin' up on the Horror Game Awards ceremony from this afternoon and then rounding back to Silent Hill: Homecoming - might even finish it tonight! twitch.sktn.tv yt.sktn.tv sktn.tv/stream
neutral · AI labelView post →Before we begin I have to mention this PC port is a travesty, it's basically broken from every aspect and requires patches to fix some of the issues. Some QTEs seem impossible on controller without this fix - https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Silent_Hill:_Homecoming Without even considering the game it's a non recommendation even before we get to the game itself, but we'll dive into that below. Silent Hill Homecoming is considered by many to be the start of the end for the franchise, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game runs like trash and you have to mod it just to use basic functions like controller support. just port the original silent hills to steam konami whats taking you so long!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The fourth and final episode of our 'Silent Hill: Homecoming' playthrough is up now on YouTube! Watch as our panel is confounded by the game's final gauntlet of twists, tortured logic, and terrible endings; followed by nearly a full hour (!) of our "final thoughts." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpA4...
neutral · AI labelView post →The worst version of one of the worst Silent Hill games. I actually enjoy Silent Hill: Homecoming, but the Steam version is an absolute disaster. It is mind-boggling that Konami still sells this product in this state.It is a broken mess that requires hours of digging for community mods and patches just to launch, and even then, it suffers from major stability and controller issues. It runs a bit easier on Steam Deck, but the controls are terrible because this port was a total afterthought. a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game itself isnt even that bad im actually invested in the story so far but my GOD this pc port is garbage
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable on pc, dont buy, works only with 3rd party sketchy programs / minus rep steam selling broken port
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love the game but i wanted to play on controller and was not quite able to make it work (only buy if you are okay playing it on MNK)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first episode of our 'Silent Hill: Homecoming' playthrough is up now on YouTube! Featuring a nearly hour-long history of the game's troubled development, naughty nurses behaving badly, and handy how-tos on home repair. youtu.be/W6Y51EtZqMI
neutral · AI labelView post →The real horror in Silent Hill: Homecoming isn't the monsters—it’s the PC port. Even years later, the Steam version remains a technical wreck. Why the PC Port Fails The Bugs: Out of the box, it suffers from frequent crashes, broken Quick Time Events (QTEs) tied to frame rate, and audio that desyncs or cuts out entirely. The "Patches": Community fixes like UnknownProject are heroic efforts, but they’re band-aids. You’ll still face memory leaks and random stutters that can wipe out…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, I didn't think this is a bad game- just a terrible port. The controls are poorly placed and I had a fair few crashes at the start. I played it all the way through here because I had paid for it- but honestly I would recommend either get the xbox 360, PS3 versions or the emulations. Please don't waste your money with this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A stick in the eye for those who live in the past, and in both eyes for those who forget it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Silent Hill: Homecoming done and dusted. What a staggering game.
positive · AI labelView post →I have completed Silent Hill Homecoming. I did not use a guide. I did everything blind. And... and I got the UFO ending? On my first playthrough? Is... is that supposed to happen? It seems like it probably shouldn't! Because I've now finished a ten hour game with no actual ending!
neutral · AI labelView post →game is unplayable. endless black screen has been going on for years, and the game has yet to be patched. how is this even allowed to be on the market place??
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game and thought, even looking at the reviews it couldn't be that bad? I was sorely mistaken... The game port itself is REALLY poorly optimised. It constantly froze whenever it had to load a cutscene/ area transition or even open up the save menu, especially in the later portion of the game. It crashed multiple times because of it, so I almost had a heart attack every time it froze before I had chance to save my progress. I'll also add, I have a fairly powerful PC…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is just wrong. I really wanted to give this game a chance. At the beginning, it was kind of fun, but after just a few chapters, it turned out to be the most boring piece of art I’ve played in a long time. Honestly, the only two good aspects of this game are the music and the Otherworld design (including the monsters), and that’s it. Now I’ll start talking about everything that’s wrong with this title. The PC port is absolutely broken, the combat system is terrible, and although the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man I love this game. Whilst I completely understand the draw to silent hill 2 (the original as my Alienware is not quite there for the remastered remake! One day though) This game is not the same. Which is why I forgive people for not enjoying this one. But I did. The story being that of a soldier (without spoilers) makes sense that he can handle weapons better than any other silent hill game, but it is still his hell. I am a huge fan of all Silent Hill games, I love the lore and the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A completely messed-up port to PC. Considering its poor technical condition, it should be removed from the store. On PC, it's better to emulate it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finishing game 5 of 6 (maybe 7… 👀) of the Silent Hill Summer Marathon! ☀️ Let’s finish up Silent Hill: Homecoming, which is about to come with some wild twists and turns! Twitch.tv/jeffbrutlag
neutral · AI labelView post →I have NEVER played such a buggy game before. This port is an actual ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disgrace. It's UNPLAYABLE. Literally. If you can get past the start screen and load into the actual game (chances are less than 50/50), then good luck not discovering some kind of bug. Straight away I got stuck zoomed in somehow into the X-ray wall 10 minutes in. Actually have to start again from the beginning because you get locked in and can't move. The inventory itself would not render properly, showing me an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This port is a crime against humanity, literally unplayable, had to install a ps2 rom in order to have a nice and smooth experience. People who think the original game is that mess need to get they ass beaten for sure. THE SOUNDTRACK IS AN ABSOLUTELY MASTERPIECE. I love to blast that symphony over and over till my ears are bleeding. ONE MORE SOUL TO THE CALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a SH fan I loved this style of movie&game mix. I know this is one of the least rated silent hill games and yes it crashes. It didn't crash as much for me as it sounds like it did for others. My game was always saved and I made sure to go back to save spots frequently. If you pause the game for too long or leave it idle, it will freeze, and you will have to restart the game. The story was good. The monsters are tops. The scenery and the vibe is on point. It was very linear. You do have maps…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love this game but the crashes are insanely bad and the reason why is bad because the game dont AUTO SAVEEEEEEEEE like WHYYYY i havent even played this game properly because of the CRASHESS and i wanna play the game but i cant... HOW CAN THEY FIX THIS ISSUE BRO I JUST WANNA PLAY THE GAME AND NOT CRASH EVERY 10MIN AND THE SAVE POINTS ARE JUST NOT THERE. This game is good but beware to waste ur time alot because of the crashes because they can happen anytime so dont enjoy this game and just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible port. I made it to the end of the prison before crashing on the way out after the boss (no opportunity to save) and I'm done at this point. It's been constant problems, despite even getting the community mod to fix a lot of it. Guns not wanting to fire when I click, puzzles not letting me press obvious buttons when i should be able to. I'm tired of it. I wanted to finish this re-play, but it's not worth it with this jank port that was never fixed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buy the digital Xbox 360 version instead. It's backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series S | X without all the annoying frankensteining required to turn your experience from hot garbage to slightly more bearable lukewarm garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i played this game one time on the ps3 years ago and i thought it wasn't the best, but it was not the worst either, i tried having a second playthrough on pc, but the game crashes often when a new area loads in, which sucks because i want to replay, other than that, the game is okay
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst recent purchase I've made. Keeps crashing and they won't refund me because they have a 2 hour gaming time limit which I didn't even know so yeah had I realised I would have stopped trying to fix this crashing issue and requested a refund sooner. I'm rather pissed by the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ steam just pulled on me with not allowing a refund on a game that doesn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ work. But my mistake for thinking steam would actually care or do something to help.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game doesn't work straight from the box. When I attempted to start it, all I got was a black screen. It seems it will only start with an update from a website, which I consider a security risk. Given the current state of the world, with various state-sponsored hackers, this is concerning. Consequently, I wouldn't recommend this game at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dear hardcore oldschool silent hill fans, you're wrong, this game is not bad, and yes I'm a hardcore oldschool silenthill fan. Have a nice day.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the Silent Hill franchise, and I really wanted to love Homecoming. Unfortunately, this isn’t a game I can recommend. A lot of the criticism I’ve heard focuses on the gameplay—specifically how it leans more toward action compared to earlier entries. Honestly? I didn’t mind that at all. I actually enjoyed the combat and had no real issues with the gameplay itself. My problem is technical. After leaving the opening area and arriving in town, the game began crashing roughly every 10…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Episode three of our 'Silent Hill: Homecoming' playthrough is up now on YouTube! Come for the sub-par survival horror, stay for a friendly debate over dream and/or nightmare logic. youtu.be/wVLocV4SfDo
neutral · AI labelView post →Recently I finished my first playthru of Silent Hill Homecoming (PS3) TLDR This game isn’t phenomenal or my top 5 SH titles, but I believe it gets way too over hated
neutral · AI labelView post →First of all, I had to play the game on PS3 because the steam version crashed on me too many times and I couldn't play the game on steam 💀. Also, the lighting in the game was really bad in some places. The camera placement in the game was also bad. Thanks for that Double Helix. Sometimes in combat the camera placement went inside the wall and sometimes the dodge didn't work even though you hit the dodge button because the enemy combo so hard that you didn't even have time to blink. For some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →charging 40 dollars for the most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ port oat is criminal. ♥♥♥♥ you konami
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game isn't bad. I actually like it, but the steam port is pretty mediocre at best.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very cool game. I don't understand what fans want. James had it's story already.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved it, not the best silent hill but now with Lost Message and f, definitely not the worst
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a decent game buried underneath but I just personally don't have the patience to get past the crashes and freezing. Bought this game on sale and was playing on steam deck, using the deck's controller settings and a community layout to make this work with a gamepad pretty decently. The atmosphere is good, the monsters are creepy. The story pulled me in ever so slightly, unfortunately as other reviews have stated, this is a terrible port with crashing and freezing, which for me usually…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used a patch for the framerate and view scaling, and the code is available on GitHub. Silent Hill: Homecoming is not as exciting as the others, that's true, but it still offers valuable gameplay. I don't like the combat mechanics, and I’m not a big fan of the overall environment. Still, it's a Silent Hill game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The second episode in our 'Silent Hill: Homecoming' playthrough is up now on YouTube! In which we wade our way through some sewers, collect some shattered memories, and talk candidly about circumcision. youtu.be/DET5yewZEsc
neutral · AI labelView post →I am once again back on my BS of trying to get the PC version of Silent Hill Homecoming to function and capture in OBS. No luck but when I installed the game on my Steamdeck it mysteriously had subtitles?! I've never seen it have subtitles on my desktop PC.
neutral · AI labelView post →🧟 THE DEAD ARE RISING 🧟 We're crashing head first into the finale of Silent Hill: Homecoming! This game has been a RIDE that's for fucking sure. But there's light (and death) at the end of the tunnel! Come join the suffering 🖤 twitch.tv/scarletmagus #Vtuber #Vsky #horror #SilentHill
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