SILENT HILL 2
SILENT HILL 2
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SILENT HILL: Townfall
Developer Screen Burn
Silent Hill: Townfall is a 2026 survival horror game developed by Screen Burn Interactive, and published by Konami Digital Entertainment and Annapurna Interactive. It is a standalone spin-off of the Silent Hill franchise. Set in 1996 in the fictional Scottish town of St. Amelia, it follows Simon Ordell after he wakes up in a place he seemingly has no connection to. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2,049 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
613 positive · 243 negative
95% range 69–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 185 | 45 | 881 |
| Steam reviews | 613 | 243 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 1 | 38 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 38 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
2,973 of 4,133 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
65% recommend · 209 yes, 115 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 324 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (3,847 of 5,650 positive).
Players praise the atmosphere, sound design, and story as standout elements. [1][2][3] Many report technical issues like crashes and stutters, especially on Unreal Engine 5. [4][5][6][7] Opinions on stealth gameplay are mixed, with some finding it tedious. [8][9][10]
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Representative posts
- [8]
I finished Silent Hill: Townfall. Unfortunately, the game finished me first. I went into this expecting psychological horror. What I got was a psychological experiment designed to determine exactly how long a person can crouch behind a wall waiting for an enemy to walk away before they start questioning their life choices. Before I start, the atmosphere in this game is FANTASTIC. The stealth, on the other hand, is …
- [6]
Refunded due to performance issues. Running a 5080 and still dealing with stutters on high settings. SH2 had it, but it's SH2 come on. SHf had it, and I endured through the stutters to learn more about Hinako's story, and I like Simon and the story in Townfall but I just can't deal with this sh*t anymore. Is Capcom the only company that can make polished horror games now? Konami PLEASE help us help you make money. …
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- I've now since finished a playthrough on normal with the "Abandoned" ending. Yeah a solid 8/10. It wants to say some things about justice that I'll digest on additional playthroughs. I do recommend it. It's opening section, interestingly and pointedly enough titled "A cold open." Is a best in class introduction to a horror game. The sound design? Unreal. The art direction and Simon/Zoe's personal hells being …
- [2]
I'm about an hour in and il say that while the game isn't optimized the best, the game itself is impeccable. The atmosphere is on the same level as the SH2 remake and the general feeling of the game is silent hill at its peak. The first person camera and CRT scanner are a welcome addition to the Silent Hill gameplay loop. I would absolutely recommend this game to any survival horror fan. Screen Burn nailed it here.
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Review After 100% Achievements I’ll take as many Silent Hill games that I can get my hands on. While I would personally put Townfall in third place (among the modern releases) behind SH2 Remake & SHf, it was still a really solid experience. The sound design, atmosphere, and story really make the game for me. Some of the puzzles were tough to put together, which forces you to thoroughly explore and gather …
Summarised from 34 of the 574 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 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
65% of the 324 Steam reviewers we collected recommend SILENT HILL: Townfall. The complaint that keeps coming up: frequent crashes and stutters plague the game. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Silent Hill: Townfall received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic, with fellow review aggregator OpenCritic reporting that 79% of critics recommended the game.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 2,049 · most liked firstI saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for
positive · AI labelView post →Hear me out: a Katamari game where the levels are based on other video games. You could roll up nurses in Silent Hill, demolish a frontier town in Red Dead Redemption, make a ball of Baldur’s Gate etc
neutral · AI labelView post →Some of the Otherworld of Midwich Elementary School in-game models from the 1st Silent Hill that I designed and modeled back then. Rendered in a 3DCG software Softimage 3D that we used for the development.
neutral · AI labelView post →Initially I was going to give this game a thumbs up, but, having finished it, I just can't recommend it to anyone who values their time. There are some things that I loved about this game, namely the setting and sound design. St. Amelia, the town itself, is arguably the best part of the game and it's one of the best settings I've seen in a horror game. The introduction to the town during the first couple of hours is phenomenal and makes you want to dig deeper into its mystery. It looks…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like the rest of the game, the "dog ending" in the Silent Hill 2 remake was completely revamped. The dog and her workstation, however, retained their PS2-era models.
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished Silent Hill: Townfall. Unfortunately, the game finished me first. I went into this expecting psychological horror. What I got was a psychological experiment designed to determine exactly how long a person can crouch behind a wall waiting for an enemy to walk away before they start questioning their life choices. Before I start, the atmosphere in this game is FANTASTIC. The stealth, on the other hand, is about as terrifying as waiting for my printer to connect to Wi-Fi, which for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →he is a good boy. should i buy him the new Silent Hill video game he's been asking for?
neutral · AI labelView post →Refunded due to performance issues. Running a 5080 and still dealing with stutters on high settings. SH2 had it, but it's SH2 come on. SHf had it, and I endured through the stutters to learn more about Hinako's story, and I like Simon and the story in Townfall but I just can't deal with this sh*t anymore. Is Capcom the only company that can make polished horror games now? Konami PLEASE help us help you make money. Stop with this Unreal 5 nonsense. Sucks because I'm 100% the target audience for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Silent Hill: Townfall is ultimately a very uneven experience with extremely high production values that fails to justify its existence in this franchise, much like f before it. But unlike how f was still an enjoyable experience if divorced from its namesake, Townfall is a very troubling sign of Konami slipping back into the same mismanagement that put the series on ice for a decade. (Some spoilers ahead, based on two full playthroughs with all documentation found at time of writing. Total…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The new Silent Hill movie is bad in the way video game movies used to be bad. Nature is healing.
neutral · AI labelView post →No one talks about Jacob's Ladder enough. One of the scariest, saddest movies i've ever seen. Hugely influential to the Silent Hill game series.
neutral · AI labelView post →Silent Hill f Review Thread: CGM: XboxEra: TechRadar: WellPlayed: Shacknews: Destructoid: Wccftech: Screen Rant: Digital Trends: DualShockers: 9.5/10 Game Informer: IGN: VGC: Game Rant: GamesRadar: GameReactor UK: Windows Central: Gamespot:
neutral · AI labelView post →Another UE5 stutter fest, and it crashed twice before even getting out of the tutorial. Classic modern gaming, don't accept this nonsense
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Zoe Thorogood, the comic artist who did the Returnal spread in "How a Game Lives," got to design some official Silent Hill 2 merch and it's so very very sick
neutral · AI labelView post →my tribute to my favorite game in the Silent Hill series, SH3 💖 Heather is one of my favorite protagonists EVER
neutral · AI labelView post →Manifesting hard I am gonna voice in Elder Scrolls I am gonna voice in a FromSoft game I am gonna be in Deadlock I am gonna be in Fallout I am gonna be in a Silent Hill I'm gonna be in more horror games I'm gonna be in more dinosaur games I'm gonna do it, I WILL do it Nothing will stop me
neutral · AI labelView post →I really, really, really like the Silent Hill f game and all of its lore, so I wanted to draw Hinako for the game's anniversary 🦊 #silenthill #silenthillf
neutral · AI labelView post →This is wild, my name's in the credits for Silent Hill: Townfall!?! I know a lot of studios use the Game UI Database, but I think this is the first time anyone's actually put me in the credits because of it 😭 I'm so touched by this!!
positive · AI labelView post →Silent Hill f is a generational horror game, a 10/10 and would have been my number 2 or 3 pick for the GotY that year. Silent Hill Townfall is a solid as hell 4/5 that comfortably places it as a very good Silent Hill game with some flaws.
positive · AI labelView post →Here are some of my concept arts/sketches for the creatures in Silent Hill 2 Remake, from the "Silent Hill 2 Exhibition" currently being held in Tokyo. Found these on X. Also the in-game model in the shots is not mine. I didn't sculpt any in-game creature models for the Remake.
neutral · AI labelView post →Silent Hill 2 was snubbed for best family game
neutral · AI labelView post →Stop using invincible stalker enemies in horror games. It's not scary. Its just annoying. And i mean everything. not just this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EDIT: I ended up finishing the game hoping that things would even out. Overall, the game has great atmosphere, sound design, and VAs. As I said before, I love stealth games so I fully expected to spend a lot of the time crouch walking, checking the tv, and hiding. When the hiding starts to feel more like waiting, that's when the frustration goes up and interest goes down. I only found a couple sections where this was the case, but it was enough to go from "I want to finish this game because its…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SILENT HILL: Townfall is ESRB rated for PS5/PC. "The word “f**k” is heard in the game."
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed Silent Hill: Townfall. At times it's utterly brilliant, at others it's creatively frustrating and bloody tedious. So much greatness, yet so many caveats. Read here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/silent-...
neutral · AI labelView post →the real horrors of this game is hoping that it won't crash before you have the opportunity to save
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only recommend on a sale. At full price, no. The story is great. Gameplay is a slog. A lot of "wait for the enemy trapped in molasses to slowly move away, and now you can walk across" as it's stealth mechanic. For a game that bills itself as a stealth horror, it's kind weird how older games that offer stealth as a SIDE mechanic have way more depth than this. It's a lot of tedious "wait and go" gameplay. Sometimes a particular unkillable enemy will literally camp the only path you have,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally played through my first Silent Hill game (2's remake) and I'm afraid I now have a new hyperfixation
positive · AI labelView post →A Resident Evil and Silent Hill game releasing within 6 months of each other. Nature is healing
neutral · AI labelView post →Silent Hill f is haunting, captivating, and probably my favorite game of 2025 🖤 www.gamespot.com/reviews/sile...
positive · AI labelView post →EDIT: I Finished the game. This is not Silent Hill. this has no Mysticism. No esotericism. No Spiritual nature. No Cults. No Rituals. The Story is Incredibly Mid. The Gameplay is a Chore. Simon was an engineer and because of a catastrophic accident is the only survivor of a disaster leading to the deaths of 100s. because of him being a sole survivor the massive corporation CEG wants to use him as a scapegoat to get out of responsibility for the Incident. Richard is the CEO of CEG and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The constant hide and seek and stalker enemy in this game is such BS, it just becomes a boring chore, not even remotely scary or fun, dude walks three steps outside your room and comes right back in before you even leave the closet. Stalker guy has instant death grab, the IV guys have a hit scan ranged attack. The section with Richard in the Tower shotgunning widows was the only time I felt any tension and the only part of the game that didn't suck. I love Silent Hill, I have my original…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I first saw SILENT HILL: Townfall, I was genuinely shocked to see it being a first person game and being set in a Scottish town - St. Amelia, but the REAL town is called St. Monans - was a breath of fresh air. As a Scotsman myself, I don't really see much Scottish stuff in games to be fair. I started the game and my first experience was 2 crashes and stuttering constantly. I also stuttered whenever I entered a new area (pretty badly at times too) and it just soured my experience. Drivers…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ive not had a game sap my energy or enjoyment from playing as much as this one. i understand trying to be a game that promotes careful stealth & running away rather than fighting but almost everything is a drawn out stealth section that moves at the speed of sludge there are not many games i have given up on halfway through but this just ground me down to the point i stopped caring about finishing it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just completed Silent Hill 2 and holy shit what a game 😍😍😍😍😍 The whole game through had me sweating and freaking out paranoid of the darkness and what was lurking within. Then this story it’s a lot to digest honestly, but I can see why people love this game & it’s so beloved. 10/10 experience. ❤️✨
positive · AI labelView post →Leaving the hospital in Silent Hill 2 now for good and man oh man this story 👌🏻😤🔥 As a first time player of this game it’s been such a wonderful time. Words can’t express how perfectly crafted this game is with the ambience, the sounds, the tension, and the surroundings all blend together perfectly.
positive · AI labelView post →What, you're saying the combat is unwieldy and frustrating? This is very abnormal for a Silent Hill game.
negative · AI labelView post →damian mccarthy silent hill movie that, similar to the new resident evil, leaves behind familiar story / character elements in favor of a film experience that feels like playing a great Silent Hill game please and thank you
neutral · AI labelView post →Silent Hill: Townfall is a great video game
positive · AI labelView post →Living in a uk coastal town full of crackheads, this game was very relatable.I was able to beat them with a stick. Would recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where do I start? I really wanted to like Silent Hill: Townfall, but the biggest problem with this game is it completely misses on everything that makes a Silent Hill game special. Silent Hill games, at their best, make you feel uncomfortable, uneasy and scared of everything. The psychological horror forces you to slow your pace because opening the next door or looking around the next corner fills you with dread, and even an empty room can make you feel unsafe. It’s like you’re living in your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was excited for townfall but after beating the game i am disappointed. the negatives 1. the gameplay is just boring to get through 2. the selection of enemies are not very good 3. the enemies have very annoying attacks (spam grab, and launching needles from a long distance) 4. the self revive often revives while the enemies are still have aggro on you 5. the game crashed 5 times making me replay sections of the game (turning off ray tracing stopped the crashes) positives 1.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing through Silent Hill f, I figured it was time to return to where it all started...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Silent Hill f is not a Silent Hill game"
neutral · AI labelView post →Preorders open now! Good Smile Company SILENT HILL f Nendoroid Hinako Shimizu From the psychological horror game "SILENT HILL f" comes a Nendoroid of Hinako Shimizu! Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/esrlo4 #goodsmile
neutral · AI labelView post →A Scottish game studio made a Silent Hill game. I cannot express how fucking cool this is.
positive · AI labelView post →Hello my friends :) As always, I'm very pleasantly surprised by the game's performance on the Steam Deck and Steam Machine :) On the Steam Deck, it averages between 30-40 fps with all settings on low and FSR on ultra performance. However, there are still occasional significant fps drops and frame drops. :/ On the Steam Machine, it runs with ultra settings, FSR quality, and ray tracing on at 50-65 fps, not bad :) All in 1080p. Here's my test on the Steam Deck:…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Silent Hill f is not perfect Silent Hill f is the most interesting game of the year Silent Hill f is also the best game of the year
positive · AI labelView post →Silent Hill f is a real game we've never been more back
neutral · AI labelView post →Silent Hill f might be my Game of the Year.
positive · AI labelView post →Absolute crash-fest on AMD hardware! It is amazing how big budget game devs just forget about testing their games on hardwares other than Nvidia's. Laughable really. I was super excited to play this. But that did not last long. I can play this only if it does NOT crash every 5 mins. Rubbish lazy development. If this does not get fixed in a week, I'll refund the game. No point paying full-price for such negligent half-assed products. Don't trust the online reviewers. They are just paid…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refunded. I am done struggling through stutter filled games. ue 5 ruined another one. avoid like the plague.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worth noting that this is the highest score Famitsu has ever given a game in the franchise. Their previous scores: Silent Hill 2 Remake (PS5): 35/40 Silent Hill (PS1): 34/40 Silent Hill 2 (PS2): 34/40 Silent Hill 3 (PS2): 33/40 Silent Hill 4: The Room (PS2): 33/40
neutral · AI labelView post →Silent Hill in NAME only. -Solve puzzle. -Hide. -Wait. -Wait some more. -Enemy finally leaves. -Walk ten meters. -Another puzzle. -Repeat. The stealth is awful. You spend way too much time hiding like a mouse, staring at the enemy patrol around while you do absolutely nothing. It’s not tense. It’s not scary. It’s just boring. This feels less like Silent Hill and more like Puzzle Simulator: Hide Behind Furniture Edition. Silent Hill: Townfall taught me one very important lesson:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starting with the good : The game is beautiful and the environments evoke nostalgia in me. I also liked some moments where, without fanfare, the game just turns to night time, it was just cool to me. The story is somewhat interesting, although I find another character in the game much more interesting than Simon. I also quite like the little tv and wish that it was used in puzzles more. The bad : This game is a slog to play. The gameplay is extremely slow and there is a huge focus on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am a solo dev creating a Mexican folklore horror game inspired by Silent Hill and a real life location in Mexico called Island of Dolls. What do you think of the new trailer?. Hey guys! Hope everyone is well! Just wanted to share the new trailer for my horror game that I am working on which is mostly inspired by a real life location in Mexico, Resident Evil, Silent Hill and a little bit of outlast mixed in with some Mexican folklore into it. Do let me know what you think of the new…
neutral · AI labelView post →- I've now since finished a playthrough on normal with the "Abandoned" ending. Yeah a solid 8/10. It wants to say some things about justice that I'll digest on additional playthroughs. I do recommend it. It's opening section, interestingly and pointedly enough titled "A cold open." Is a best in class introduction to a horror game. The sound design? Unreal. The art direction and Simon/Zoe's personal hells being aggressive shades of blue and red in the spirit of emergency services? Unreal. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Writing this review just to give some context to all the negative reviews claiming "constant stutters" and "repeating crashes". As someone with a pretty Mid-Tier computer (5 year old graphics card by this point), with up-to-date graphics drivers, this game runs fine. The "constant stutters" are once every 5-10 minutes, usually when crossing a load zone, and don't affect gameplay in the slightest. I have had 0 crashing, and have had consistent 60fps with ultra graphics and raytracing on @ 1080p,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This line is exactly the reason why Silent Hill f is a good Silent Hill game and the lack of understanding this type of thing is why every SH game after 4 was a steaming pile of dog shit.
positive · AI labelView post →Is the original Silent Hill worth playing if you've never played a Silent Hill game before? Or is there another place one should start?
neutral · AI labelView post →
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