All Silent Hill Games in Order, by Release and Timeline

Lining up the Silent Hill games in order gets messy fast. The series started in 1999, has passed through a long list of studios since Team Silent wrapped up, and most entries tell their own story in a different corner of the fog. Only a few games share characters, so release order and the Silent Hill timeline rarely match.

This guide covers every mainline Silent Hill game plus the bigger spin-offs, from the 1999 PlayStation original to Silent Hill: Townfall, which launched on September 24, 2026. Mobile titles, the arcade game, the Japan-only Play Novel, and the collections are left out. If you're starting or finishing the series, our Silent Hill games collection has keys for several entries on PC and Xbox.

Below, you'll find every game by release date with its place in the story, the platforms it runs on, and my verdict.

Want the Silent Hill story order instead? Only one arc runs across several games, the story of Alessa Gillespie: Silent Hill: Origins comes first, then Silent Hill, then Silent Hill 3. Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 4: The Room connect through the killer Walter Sullivan, so play them in that order. Shattered Memories and the 2024 remake retell older games, and every other entry stands alone, with Silent Hill f going back to the 1960s and Townfall to 1996.

1. Silent Hill (1999)

Harry Mason crashes his car on the way into Silent Hill and wakes to find his adopted daughter Cheryl gone. His search drags him into a cult trying to bring its god into the world, and into the Otherworld, a rusted, bloody version of the town that takes over the streets without warning. Keiichiro Toyama directed and wrote it, and Akira Yamaoka's sound work set the tone for every game after it.

Fog and darkness hid the PlayStation's short draw distance, and Team Silent turned that hardware limit into the series' signature look. A pocket radio crackles with static when monsters get close, and the flashlight lights only a short stretch ahead. Five endings wait at the finish, including a joke UFO ending on a second run. Tank controls and blocky visuals have aged hard, so going back takes patience.

My Verdict: Every rule the series still follows starts here. Come for the history and the setup Silent Hill 3 pays off, and give the controls an hour to click.

2. Silent Hill 2 (2001)

James Sunderland comes to Silent Hill after a letter arrives from his wife Mary, who died three years earlier. She writes that she's waiting for him in their special place. The town he finds mirrors his own mind, with Pyramid Head stalking him as a walking form of guilt and Maria, a woman who looks like Mary, sticking close to him.

Silent Hill 2 keeps the town and swaps in a new cast with a far more personal story. Director Masashi Tsuboyama's team built a slow, uncomfortable mystery with six endings, three of them unlocked on replays, plus the Born from a Wish side scenario in later editions. Combat is stiff, yet almost nobody plays it for the fights.

My Verdict: The best story the series has told and one of the best in horror games. If the original's controls put you off, the 2024 remake tells the same tale.

3. Silent Hill 3 (2003)

Seventeen years after the first game, Heather Mason wakes from a nightmare in a shopping mall restaurant and watches the world around her slide into the Otherworld. She learns she's the baby Harry took home at the end of Silent Hill, the reincarnation of Alessa, and that the cult still wants her to give birth to its god. Claudia Wolf, Alessa's childhood friend, leads that cult and drives the plot.

As the direct sequel to Silent Hill, it works best after the original, or at least after reading up on Harry and Alessa. Its Otherworld is the bloodiest in the series, and the mall, subway and hospital stretches rank among Team Silent's best level design. The PC port scored lower than the PS2 version, and the 2012 HD Collection replaced the original voice cast with no way to switch back.

My Verdict: For me, the scariest of the classic four and the payoff to Harry's story. Track down the PS2 version if you can, since the HD Collection lost the original voices.

4. Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004)

Henry Townshend has been locked inside apartment 302 at South Ashfield Heights for five days, and the only way out is a hole that opens in his bathroom wall. Through it he reaches other worlds, where the people he meets die in ways that copy the murders of Walter Sullivan. Silent Hill 2 first mentioned Sullivan in a newspaper article, and here he needs 21 murders for his ritual, with Henry as the last.

The apartment plays in first person and holds the only save point and item chest, which gets tedious. Halfway through, hauntings start draining Henry's health at home, and neighbor Eileen Galvin joins you as a companion whose condition at the final boss affects the ending. Puzzles take a back seat to combat, a change plenty of critics disliked in 2004.

My Verdict: The strangest of Team Silent's games, with a brilliant premise and a frustrating second half. Save it for after Silent Hill 2 so the Walter Sullivan link lands.

5. Silent Hill: Origins (2007)

Travis Grady, a trucker plagued by nightmares, pulls a girl named Alessa Gillespie out of a burning house on the edge of Silent Hill. His search for answers about her keeps him in town and sets up the events of the first game. That makes Origins the earliest point in the Alessa story, several years before Harry ever arrives.

Climax Studios took over from Team Silent here, and development moved from Santa Monica to the UK partway through. Mirrors swap Travis between the real town and the Other World, and changes in one world carry into the other. Melee weapons break with use, which nudges you toward avoiding fights. Reviewers liked it on PSP but felt it leaned too hard on the series' formula.

My Verdict: A short, solid prequel that plays it safe. It lands best after the first game, since its strongest moments are callbacks.

6. Silent Hill: Homecoming (2008)

Alex Shepherd comes home to Shepherd's Glen to find his father and younger brother missing and his mother catatonic. His search leads to the Order, the cult behind a string of disappearances in town, and eventually into Silent Hill itself. Fans of Origins get a nod early on, when Travis Grady gives Alex a ride.

Double Helix pushed the series toward action, with lock-on targeting, dodges, counters and a fully player-controlled camera. Combat feels better than in any classic entry, and the scares suffer for it. It sits at 71 on Metacritic for PS3, and the plot split critics. The PC version is still on Steam, and you can grab a Silent Hill Homecoming key from our collection.

My Verdict: The most playable of the older games and the least frightening. Pick it up if you want classic Silent Hill monsters with modern controls.

7. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009)

Shattered Memories reworks the first game. Harry Mason still searches for his daughter Cheryl after a car crash, yet the plot, the town and most of the characters change. First-person sessions with psychologist Dr. Michael Kaufmann frame the story, and your answers to his tests, plus choices made in play, change areas, characters and how monsters look.

Harry carries no weapons at all. When the town freezes over into the Nightmare, monsters hunt him and all you can do is run, hide, knock obstacles into their path or ward them off with flares. His phone works as a map and camera, and using it near radio static unlocks messages that fill in the story. The chases get repetitive, but the profiling system still feels fresh.

My Verdict: The boldest experiment in the series and a great pick for anyone who hates clunky combat. Go in after the original so the changes hit harder.

8. Silent Hill: Downpour (2012)

Murphy Pendleton is a prisoner whose transport crashes near Silent Hill. He escapes into the town and its Otherworld, where memories he buried start catching up with him. Vatra Games built it on Unreal Engine 3, and Daniel Licht took over the score from longtime composer Akira Yamaoka.

Downpour opens the town up more than earlier games, with subway tunnels as shortcuts and 14 optional side quests. Weather swings between fog and rain, and heavy rain brings more frequent, more violent monsters. Critics praised the story and atmosphere and knocked the combat and performance, landing it at 64 on PS3 and 68 on Xbox 360.

My Verdict: An underrated entry with great side quests and rough edges everywhere else. A modern Xbox is the easy way in, since it still runs through backward compatibility.

9. Silent Hill: Book of Memories (2012)

Book of Memories hands your created character a mysterious book on their birthday that lays out their entire life. Edit it and things go wrong, so you fight through dream zones guarded by monsters to undo the damage. Pyramid Head and other faces from earlier games turn up, which is about as close as it gets to the main series.

WayForward made a top-down dungeon crawler, the first entry with multiplayer since Silent Hill: The Arcade. You level up stats, pick from five classes and collect puzzle pieces to clear each zone. Critics liked its looks for a handheld and called the plot weak, and it sits at 58 on Metacritic.

My Verdict: A curiosity for Vita owners and completionists. Skip it if you came for horror, as the scares are mostly gone.

10. Silent Hill: The Short Message (2024)

Konami announced The Short Message and released it for free on PS5 on the same day. Teenager Anita Planert ends up in the Villa, an abandoned apartment complex in the German town of Kettenstadt. The story deals with bullying, social media, suicide and mental health.

Play is first person with no combat. Anita runs from a huge monster covered in cherry blossoms, and those chases are the weak point, with critics calling them repetitive trial and error. It scored 52 on Metacritic, yet passed 4 million downloads on the PlayStation Store by May 2025.

My Verdict: Worth the free download for its setting and themes. Don't expect a full Silent Hill game.

11. Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024)

Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake retells James Sunderland's trip to Silent Hill with an over-the-shoulder camera, rebuilt combat and several story set pieces made from scratch. Fights stay deliberately heavy so James feels vulnerable, and ammo and healing items stay scarce. It launched on PS5 and PC, and reached Xbox Series X|S in November 2025.

Over 1 million units in four days made it the fastest-selling Silent Hill game at the time, and sales passed 2.5 million by October 2025. The story follows the original closely, so newcomers get the full classic plot on modern hardware. For a PC copy, SILENT HILL 2 keys are in our collection, including the Deluxe Edition.

My Verdict: Today's best way to play Silent Hill 2. It plays far better than the original and loses very little of what made it special.

12. Silent Hill f (2025)

Silent Hill f leaves America for Ebisugaoka, a fictional Japanese town in the 1960s. High school student Shimizu Hinako watches her hometown vanish under fog and something far worse. Ryukishi07, the writer behind Higurashi When They Cry, wrote the story, and NeoBards Entertainment developed it.

Combat is melee only, built on dodges, parries and light and heavy attacks, with weapons that wear down and break. Hinako tracks health, stamina and sanity, and shrines let you trade items for Faith to raise stats or get omamori charms. Hinako's story has five endings, three of them locked to New Game Plus. Konami says the game passed 1 million units sold within days of launch, and SILENT HILL f keys for Steam and Xbox are in our collection.

My Verdict: The best new Silent Hill story in two decades, wrapped in combat that splits players. If you want the series to feel fresh again, start here.

13. Silent Hill: Townfall (2026)

Townfall moves the series to St. Amelia, a fog-covered coastal town in 1996 Scotland. Simon Ordell returns there to put right what went wrong in his past, and keeps waking by the docks as the town loops around him. Screen Burn Interactive, known as No Code before a July 2025 rebrand, developed it, with Konami and Annapurna Interactive co-publishing.

Silent Hill: Townfall on PS5 plays in first person, mixing melee weapons and stealth. A pocket TV called the CRTV picks up unstable signals, warns you about nearby threats and turns up story clues. Five endings are in the mix, some only reachable in New Game Plus, and reviews put it at 80 on Metacritic for both PS5 and PC.

My Verdict: A strong first-person entry that gives the series a new voice. Follow it up after Silent Hill f to see where Konami is taking things next.

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Final Words

Silent Hill has always worked best when it treats the town as a mirror. The strongest entries, from Silent Hill 2 to Shattered Memories to Silent Hill f, build their horror around one person's guilt or fear and let the monsters grow out of it. The weaker ones lean on action, and you can feel the difference within an hour.

If you only play one, make it the Silent Hill 2 remake. For a deeper run, go through Origins, Silent Hill and Silent Hill 3 for the full Alessa arc, then pick from the standalone games based on taste. Anyone who hates clunky combat should try Shattered Memories and The Short Message, and players after something fresh can go straight to Silent Hill f or Townfall.

The next big date is the Silent Hill 1 remake, which still has no release window. With Silent Hill f and Townfall both well received and the original on its way back, the series hasn't looked this healthy since the PS2 days.

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