Going through your individual psychological demons whereas encountering harmful, grotesque monsters awaiting you within the darkness is core to what the horror franchise is, and Silent Hill f utterly delivers on it. Bringing us to the fictional city of Ebisugaoka in Japan, the most recent entry appears like an important step ahead for this as soon as iconic collection, and you may already seize it at an enormous low cost, supplying you with the possibility to play probably the greatest horror video games lately through the spookiest season with out shelling out for full worth.
From the get-go, Silent Hill f delivers what you’d count on from a brand new sport, and proves it’s nonetheless a strong Resident Evil rival, 26 years later. You play as Hinako, a teen who comes from a damaged household, who finds {that a} dense and mysterious fog has fallen over her hometown. For anybody with even the slightest data of the collection, that is normally a reasonably unhealthy signal – and I will not spoil why.
It does not assist that, as a teen, Hinako is quite a bit weaker than her monstrous adversaries, and as you progress by the sport, these mannequin-like enemies toughen and alter in horrifyingly thrilling methods. There are not any pistols or shotguns to bloodbath those that stand in your approach; as a substitute, you are left with a wide range of melee weapons, from metal pipes to axes, that can assist you survive Silent Hill f’s unnerving residents.
I feel Danielle Rose put it greatest in her Silent Hill f assessment, saying that “Silent Hill f skillfully reinterprets the long-lasting horror collection for a contemporary viewers, appearing as each a stirring homage and a robust imaginative and prescient for Silent Hill’s future.” Whereas we’ll have to attend and see whether or not or not or delivers on the promise of a vivid future for the franchise, it lays some wonderful foundations.
Happily, you do not have to attend till the Halloween season is over to get Silent Hill F at a reduction, as you’ll be able to seize it for simply $52.49 / £52.49 at Fanatical. That is a powerful 25% off a sport that is solely simply launched, and for one which we have reviewed extremely as probably the greatest PC video games this yr – effectively, that is a deal you’ll be able to’t run away from, even whether it is coated in contaminated creatures.
Now that Silent Hill f has lastly arrived, try our upcoming PC video games listing for extra causes to get hyped. In the meantime, in the event you love intelligent, engaging tales, learn our listing of the most effective single-player video games for extra suggestions (although most of them aren’t as scary).
After getting jumpscared and being on edge, there’s nothing like chatting with a bunch of like-minded explorers of the fog in our PCGamesN Discord. Share your favourite horror video games with us, and we can’t decide you. Effectively, possibly just a bit – it is all a part of the enjoyable.
