Archiv für Juli 2026

Endlich angespielt: Silent Hill: Townfall pfeift auf Videospiel-Regeln und Survival-Horror-Formeln. Diese radikale Neuausrichtung könnte für die Reihe grandios werden – ist aber gleichzeitig ein enormes Risiko.

Silent Hill: Townfall being in first-person definitely sparked the thought of what P.T. could have been, because my time with Townfall showed that the more intimate interaction with the environment can bring you closer to both the story it’s trying to tell and the gameplay elements that give rise to such dread. I came in […]

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a major revival of the Silent Hill franchise, with 2024’s Silent Hill 2 remake offering a spectacular reimagining of one of the series‘ most beloved entries while titles like Silent Hill f and Townfall propel the series forward and seek to redefine what a Silent Hill game can […]

One way to gauge the success of a game is by looking at how much talk it generates after launch, and in the case of Silent Hill Townfall, game director Jon McKellan has an ambitious goal for the Scottish psychological-horror. According to McKellan, the team at Screen Burn is looking to give players just the […]

Glasgow-based developer Screen Burn has been around for over a decade, and Silent Hill: Townfall is the studio’s highest-profile game to date. The studio has produced a few cult-classics over the years like Stories Untold and Observation, but with its Silent Hill spin-off, the team has described being handed the keys to Konami’s premier survival-horror […]

Silent Hill: Townfall makes some big changes from the usual Silent Hill experience that fans have come to expect, not only with its Scottish setting, but also with its first-person perspective. While this gameplay style is unusual for Silent Hill (we still remember you, PT), it turns out there was really no debate about whether […]