SILENT HILL: Townfall

About SILENT HILL: Townfall

SILENT HILL: Townfall was made by Screen Burn and released in September 2026 for PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam and the Epic Games Store) by KONAMI and Annapurna Interactive. Jon McKellan directed and wrote it, and Pilotpriest composed the music. Its makers call it the first full-length Silent Hill game presented in first person, and a self-contained story set away from the series' usual town, on the island of St. Amelia off Scotland in 1996.

Simon Ordell wakes on the shore of St. Amelia, a struggling fishing town, and finds it quiet beneath a heavy fog, seemingly abandoned but not at rest. Protest banners hang around a monument, rooms glow red, an operating table sits under a sheet, and something crawls down the shopping street. He is driven to understand his own connection to the place and its people, among them Zoe Ellis, a local nurse. The cast includes Jovan Adepo, Kezia Burrows and Terry O'Quinn.

The series' radio returns as the CRTV, a pocket television you tune to unstable analog signals. It picks up enemies through walls and carries story fragments and clues for narrative puzzles. You choose how to handle each encounter: planks and pipes, a pistol, a shotgun and a flare gun, or sneaking past from cover and throwing bottles and bricks to distract or stun. The music reacts to stealth and action, the difficulty can be adjusted, and the endings depend on what you do. HowLongToBeat players report about 14.5 hours to the end.

Critics were warm: it holds 80 on both Metacritic and OpenCritic. PC Gamer praised its classic psychological horror, its grotesque monsters and the CRTV as a puzzle and stealth tool, and Eurogamer liked its stealth, its world design and a dash of social realism. On Steam it is Mixed. Players praise St. Amelia, the sound and the voice acting, and one deaf player singled out subtitles that describe sounds. Others find the long crouch-and-wait stealth, the backtracking for keys and some puzzles tiresome, wish for more kinds of enemies, and report stutters and crashes on PC.

It suits Silent Hill fans who want the series' fog and grief in a new place and in first person, and players who prefer sneaking and puzzles to shooting.

How to play SILENT HILL: Townfall

1. Buy it for PlayStation 5 on the PlayStation Store, or for Windows on Steam or the Epic Games Store; it supports controllers.
2. Explore St. Amelia in first person through the fog.
3. Tune the CRTV to pick up nearby threats, even through walls, and the story fragments you need for puzzles.
4. Choose in each encounter whether to fight with melee weapons and guns, sneak past from cover, or throw bottles and bricks to distract or stun.
5. Solve the narrative puzzles to go deeper into the town's past and Simon's own.

Tips

• Check the CRTV often; it shows enemies through walls before you see them in the fog.
• Throw bottles and bricks to draw enemies away or stun them, and save your ammunition.
• Expect a lot of crouching and waiting; patience gets you further than rushing.
• Keep note of locked doors, since many keys send you back across areas you have already searched.
• If the puzzles feel too hard, the difficulty can be adjusted.
• On PC, players report stutters and crashes, so save often.
• Your actions shape the ending.

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