Let's continue to analyze the recently announced Silent Hill projects.
In the previous articles, we discussed all information about Silent Hill 2 Remake, Silent Hill F, the new movie "Return to Silent Hill", and "The Short Message".
And in this article, I will talk about the two remaining projects - Silent Hill Townfall and Silent Hill Ascension.
Silent Hill Ascension
The announcement of "Silent Hill Ascension" caused a lot of confusion among fans. What is it - a game, a movie, or something else? Let's try to figure it out.
Actually, this is not exactly a game - but rather an online interactive movie with CG graphics.
The project is being managed by Genvid, a company specializing in such interactive movies.
An example of their previous works is "Walking Dead: The Last Mile". It was an interactive CG movie, where people could earn "influence points” through mini-games or through paid options. And then these "influence points" can be used to change the development of the story by voting in online polls. Apparently, we will see something similar in "Silent Hill Ascension".
Other companies participating in the project:
Dj2 Entertainment - worked on the movie "Sonic the Hedgehog" based on the classic Sega platformer.
Bad Robot Games is a company affiliated with the "Bad Robot" film studio, which deals with all sorts of TV series. It is best known for the TV series "Lost".
Behavior Interactive are the developers of the multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight.
Personally, I am skeptical about this project. I think that most likely we will get some random B-horror schlock that will have very little in common with Silent Hill and will try to extort money from viewers through some paid options.
UPDATE 1:
In October 2023, the developers announced the release date for Silent Hill Ascension. The first episode will be released on October 31, and then the project will continue for 6 months. Every day, viewers will be shown short scenes and asked to make some decisions that will affect the development of the story. Then all the mini-scenes for the week will be assembled into a whole episode. So over the course of six months, there would be more than 20 episodes in total.
UPDATE 2:
In May 2024, the final episode of Ascension was released (the movie consists of 21 episodes, comprising approximately 11 hours of video). So now you can watch the movie in its entirety - without the hassle of online voting or having to wait for new short scenes every day.
Silent Hill Townfall
Silent Hill Townfall is an indie game from the Scottish studio "No Code".
This company previously created the low-budget adventure games "Stories Untold" and "Observation". Both games are quite unusual - they are mostly about solving puzzles and controlling some complex device (a computer, radio equipment, or a space station).
In the Silent Hill Townfall trailer, we can see a strange portable device that combines the functions of a radio and a television. Eerie images flicker across its screen, and a mysterious person communicates with us through the speaker.
Most likely, throughout the game we will interact with this Radio-TV, much like the players interacted with the radio in the third episode of "Stories Untold" (this episode was called "The Station Process"). You can also notice a couple of old telephones in the trailer - perhaps they will also be used in the game.
Judging by the available information, Silent Hill Townfall should be the first of the "Silent Hill Short Stories" projects. The essence of these projects is that Konami will collaborate with small indie studios and release their games under the "Silent Hill" brand.
So, sometime in the future, we may see several more indie projects from other studios.
UPDATE:
After its initial announcement, the project went silent for a long time. However, Konami recently confirmed that the game is still alive and in development. And there are rumors that Townfall may be released in 2026.
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Author of the article: SilentPyramid
Publication date: 21.10.2022
Article update: 10.12.2025
