It’s all go in the foggy world of Silent Hill. Following yesterday’s surprise Australian launch, last year’s stupendous Silent Hill 2 remake is finally available on Xbox Series X/S worldwide – and Christophe Gans’ upcoming movie adaptation has received a new trailer too.
Starting with that Xbox Series X/S release, developer Bloober Team‘s Silent Hill 2 remake – which we gave five stars to last year – is available now via the Xbox/Microsoft Store with a whopping 50 percent off, meaning you can currently pick up the standard edition for £27.49 in the UK, rather than the usual £54.98. The Deluxe Edition – which throws in a digital art book, digital soundtrack, and Pyramid Head mask – is similarly discounted to £34.99. This limited-time 50 percent discount should also be reflected across PlayStation and PC digital storefronts sometime today.
There’re actually two additional purchase options launching today across all platforms: a Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill f bundle is available in both standard and deluxe forms. This will supposedly be discounted by 20 percent starting on 25th November but it’s not entirely clear how – or if – that’ll stack with the current Silent Hill 2 discount. Silent Hill f, incidentally, is bloomin’ marvellous, successfully managing to capture the essence of the long-running survival horror series despite some massive changes. It’ll be discounted by 30 percent on PlayStation from today and everywhere else from 25th November – and you can read some of my thoughts on its brilliance elsewhere on Eurogamer.
Speaking of capturing the essence of Silent Hill, we now have another trailer for director Christophe Gans’ “faithful” upcoming movie adaptation of Silent Hill 2, Return to Silent Hill – and, well, I remain skeptical.
It’s certainly plundering the series’ familiar iconography – you’ve got your foggy streets, your wonky nurses, your Pyramid Head, and Akira Yamaoka’s score – but the trailer’s brash editing and in-your-face style is a million miles from the subdued melancholy of its source material. Hopefully, this is just the usual bums-on-seats marketing tactic, and the finished thing is closer to the good bits of Gans’ atmospheric but wildly uneven original Silent Hill movie – but we’ll know for sure when it hits cinemas on 23rd January 2026. And honestly, I’m prepared to forgive everything – even Mary’s apparently chopped “In my restless dreams…” line – if they’ve gone with the dog ending.
