If you really liked the recent Silent Hill 2 remake and this year’s Silent Hill f and are still craving more foggy survival horror, well, I’ve got some good news for you. Konami has no plans to slow down now and wants to release at least one game a year in the series moving forward. Nothing bad ever happens when a franchise becomes annual, right?
In a recent interview with Famitsu, as translated by Gematsu, Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto talked about the franchise’s current state and claimed that after releasing two critically acclaimed best-selling Silent Hill games in the last two years, the franchise is “back on track.” And it now sounds like we’ll be returning to the foggy streets of Silent Hill about once a year, assuming everything goes to plan.
“Including both announced and unannounced [Silent Hill games], we’re aiming for a release pace of about one title per year,” Okamoto told Famitsu in its end-of-the-year issue. “I’m not sure how much of that we’ll be able to realize, but I’ll continue to do my best as producer of the Silent Hill series. Ideally, we’d like to keep excitement around the Silent Hill series going at all times. We’re working hard to share new updates, so I’d appreciate it if you could wait just a little longer.”
Before the excellent Silent Hill 2 remake in October 2024, the survival horror franchise had fallen into disrepair, with very few new entries, and the few games that did arrive were generally disappointing. Remember 2023’s Silent Hill Accession, that interactive livestream…thing? Bleh. And before that, the last real Silent Hill game we got was 2012’s Downpour, a forgettable and bland horror game that basically put the series on ice for a decade.
Now, in 2025 and after two great games, Silent Hill is in a great place, and while I’m nervous about it becoming an annual franchise, I think Silent Hill 2 and f show a path forward that could make this work. If different studios are brought in and allowed to play around with the franchise’s past as well as take it in new directions, we might be in for a golden age of Silent Hill games. And that seems to be Konami’s plan, with a Silent Hill 1 remake in development as well as a mysterious project, Townfall. Or maybe the franchise is about to fly off the rails again.
