Silent Hill: The Short Message, a two-hour free-to-play first-person horror game released by Konami earlier this year, has been downloaded more than three million times.
Konami celebrated the event on social media, inviting players who have yet to meet Anita to “try her out.”
“In an abandoned apartment building where strange phenomena occur one after another, will you be able to escape these grotesque creatures?” the publisher teased (automatic translation provided by Google Translate).
“It's available for free on PlayStation 5. Give it a try.”
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“I suspect that anyone who can relate to Anita’s fictional experiences from a real-life perspective will have one of two divisive reactions to Silent Hill: The Short Message: profound outrage or profound admiration,” I wrote in my review of Silent Hill: The Short Message, awarding it three out of five stars.
“No, it may not be the Silent Hill game that many of us expected; it may not even be the Silent Hill game that some of us want. But even with that infuriating chase sequence, I'm very glad it exists.”
In other Silent Hill news, the original creators of Silent Hill 2 “didn’t want to do the same thing again” when it came to the Silent Hill 2 Remake, leading remake developer Bloober Team to push back on some of their more outlandish suggestions.
Silent Hill: The Short Message developer Hexadrive recently announced that they are working on a new horror game, Niraya of ■■.