Silent Hill
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Silent Hill[lower-alpha 1] (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 mainline 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.
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Genre(s) | Survival horror |
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Creator(s) | Keiichiro Toyama |
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First release | Silent Hill February 24, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-02-24)[1] |
Latest release | Silent Hill: The Short Message January 31, 2024; 6 months ago (2024-01-31) |
The later four mainline 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.[2]
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".[3]