Silent Hill

Silent Hill (Japanese: サイレントヒル, Hepburn: Sairento Hiru) is a horror anthology media franchise centered on a series of survival horror games created by Keiichiro Toyama and published by Konami. The first four video games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 4: The Room, were developed by an internal group called Team Silent, a development staff within former Konami subsidiary Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.

Silent Hill
Logo since 2022
Genre(s)Survival horror
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Creator(s)Keiichiro Toyama
Composer(s)
  • Akira Yamaoka (1999–2009, 2024)
  • Noisycroak (2001)
  • Will Music (2001)
  • Masayuki Maruyama (2007)
  • Jun Ito (2007)
  • Daniel Licht (2012)
  • Ludvig Forssell (2014)
  • NEKOFACE (2023)
  • Arkadiusz Reikowski (2024)
Platform(s)
First releaseSilent Hill
February 24, 1999 (1999-02-24)
Latest releaseSilent Hill: The Short Message
January 31, 2024 (2024-01-31)

The later four games, Origins, Homecoming, Shattered Memories and Downpour, were developed by other, mostly Western developers. The Silent Hill franchise has expanded to include various print pieces, two feature films, and spin-off video games. As of 2013, the game series has sold over 8.4 million copies worldwide.

Silent Hill is set in the series' eponymous fictional American town. The series is heavily influenced by the literary genre of psychological horror, with its player characters being mostly "everymen".

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