Silent Hill: The Short Message is a free-to-play Silent Hill spin-off set in modern-day Germany. Players explore a location known as The Villa from a first-person perspective.
Platforms
PS5Genres
AdventureThemes
Action HorrorLanguages: English and 12 more
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Critic Reviews
By Róbert Herda
The Short Message is a casual horror experience with no ambitions to push the genre further like the previous games in the series. Having said that, it has its moments.
- 16 Mar, 2024
By Lasse Laters
Unfortunately, I am personally very disappointed with Silent Hill: The Short Message. Even though it's a free game, Konami has left a lot of potential untapped here. The creative minds could have put a bit more effort into the possible new direction of the franchise. The storyline is in tune with the times, really important and well told. Both visually and acoustically. Only the lame strolling through the predetermined corridors of the building, coupled with the unfair and completely confusing chase passages, really spoil the fun of the game. Owners of a PlayStation 5 can of course form their own opinion free of charge, but shouldn't expect too much.
- 17 Feb, 2024
By Kazuma Hashimoto
Silent Hill: The Short Message is true to Silent Hill, and delves head first into psychological horror.
- 17 Feb, 2024
By Luis Sánchez
SILENT HILL: The Short Message speaks to the transcendental nature of P.T. for the survival horror genre as we know it today-a monument of great cultural importance within the industry, now lost thanks to Konami. Above all, it demonstrates the enormous magnitude of P.T. as a unique work, imitated a thousand times but never equaled. What we get in 2024 is a tasteless simulation, lacking any genuine, reflective, or penetrating qualities.
- 10 Feb, 2024
By Clint Morrison, Jr.
Silent Hill: The Short Message feels like an echo of an echo. Its existence reverberates through the horror genre, but it is a noise we first heard 10 years ago replicated time and time again. The P.T. comparisons are still possible because of its initial stirring. The aesthetic and gameplay echoes are now indistinguishable in a way that comparison is inevitable. The difference is that this echo comes from the publisher that set that first sound into motion.
- 09 Feb, 2024
