Silent Hill: The Short Message
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.
Silent Hill: The Short Message is an adventure developed by HexaDrive, released 31 January 2024 on PlayStation 5.
What Silent Hill: The Short Message is
Silent Hill: The Short Message is an adventure game developed by HexaDrive and released in 2024. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 5 only. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Silent Hill: The Short Message is a 2024 psychological horror game co-developed by Konami Digital Entertainment and HexaDrive, and published by Konami Digital Entertainment for PlayStation 5. The game was announced and released for free on January 31, 2024, becoming available for PlayStation Plus members. It follows a teenage girl Anita Planert, who receives bizarre text messages from a friend who died by suicide, and must look for clues in an abandoned apartment complex in Germany, where a monster covered in cherry blossoms pursues her.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Silent Hill series
Silent Hill: The Short Message is the 30th of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. The next entry was Silent Hill 2: Deluxe Edition in 2024. Its critic score of 30 is 44 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.
How it was received
Silent Hill: The Short Message holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 46 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Silent Hill: The Short Message launched on 31 January 2024, within three weeks of Balatro, Helldivers 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered and Persona 3 Reload. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Balatro, Helldivers 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Persona 3 Reload.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Silent Hill: The Short Message yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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