Our most up-to-date sighting of Silent Hill f got here throughout Sony’s State of Play June 2025 showcase, and with it got here our first take a look at Hinako in motion. Actually.
For some, the emphasis on fight encounters could also be shocking, as Silent Hill is a collection that has tended to focus on environmental storytelling and psychological horror over fight. Nevertheless, this newest trailer — the primary we have seen to supply a significant glimpse at gameplay and fight — coupled with a brand new interview with producer Motoi Okamoto, recommend that our protagonist might need to endure a extra bodily expertise.
“The sport options distinctive fight,” Okamoto said in a post on PlayStation Blog. “The encounters are as difficult because the obstacles that Hinako should overcome in life. The fight can have a heavier focus on melee and be extra action-oriented in comparison with final 12 months’s Silent Hill 2.”
That final sentence surprises me, as Silent Hill 2 Remake itself concerned considerably extra fight that the unique sport — or, certainly, every other sport within the collection bar maybe Silent Hill Homecoming.
Okamoto mentioned that more durable fight, with the visuals and music’s “juxtaposition between magnificence and terror,” together with the “horrible great thing about the sport’s monster design,” makes for a terrifying journey. Even the puzzles are apparently “grounded in psychological anguish and struggling.” Yikes.
Silent Hill f just isn’t a sequel to any of the present Silent Hill video games. As an alternative it should supply a standalone story “unbiased from the collection.” That got here from writer Konami itself, which lastly confirmed on X/Twitter that the most recent instalment of the horror collection — which is normally, if not at all times, based mostly in a sleepy resort city on east-coast America — will probably be “a very new title” that “individuals who have by no means performed the Silent Hill collection can take pleasure in.”
Silent Hill f takes us to Nineteen Sixties Japan, the place we’ll observe Hinako Shimizu, an adolescent struggling below the stress of expectations from her buddies, household, and society. The story was written by Ryukishi07, creator of the When They Cry visible novel collection. As displayed initially of the Japanese-language reveal trailer again in March, it’s the primary Silent Hill sport to get an 18+ ranking certification in Japan.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years expertise working with a number of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.