Konami has shared a presentation titled Silent Hill Transmission about a new era in the franchise. The presentation covered three new Silent Hill games, a sequel to the 2006 movie Silent Hill, and an interactive video that sounds like Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
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Although great news for Silent Hill fans who have been waiting for any form of Silent Hill update since the cancellation of P.T. back in 2015, what pops out initially is that all three games are being developed by external studios. Even the Silent Hill 2 remake, which was originally made by Team Silent within Konami, is now in the hands of Bloober Team.
Poland-based Bloober Team has been stacking some very well-received games. The studio focused solely on psychological horror for the past six years, with hit titles like Layers of Fear, Observer, Blair Witch, and The Medium. It makes sense for Konami to go for horror veterans for the remake of basically the best horror game of all time for many fans.
Silent Hill: Townfall is another game on the list, which No Code Studio will develop. The studio gained a positive reputation with their 2017 title Stories Untold, a psychological horror game. Another horror game, Observation, was made by the studio in 2019 but received a little less praise compared to Stories Untold.
Genvid, Bad Robot, and Behaviour Interactive will be at the helm of Silent Hill: Ascension, an interactive video experience. And lastly, Silent Hill F will be developed by NeoBards Entertainment. The studio had also co-developed the Resident Evil remakes, so it’s another logical choice.
The decision to collaborate with external developers who’ve actually created some of the best psychological horror games in the past five years seems viable for Konami, as the company itself hasn’t pushed out anything horror-related since P.T., Hideo Kojima’s passion project.
As fans would know, P.T. (which means playable trailer) was supposed to become a new game in the series titled Silent Hills but was abruptly canceled by Konami. Since the company no longer has ties with Team Silent or Kojima Productions, the Silent Hill franchise is now in the safe hands of some of the most prevalent psychological horror developers in recent years.
