We’re fast approaching the spooky season, meaning it’s time for another round of Silent Hill revival rumblings. This time, it’s something a little more promising.
As spotted by Gematsu, South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) rated an all-new game called Silent Hill: The Short Message on Monday. Its publisher is apparently UNIANA, a company that regularly publishes Konami’s games in South Korea — including eFootball 2022.
There aren’t any other details about Silent Hill: The Short Message at this time, but it’s worth noting that games typically only appear on rating boards when a project is almost complete. So whatever this title is, we’ll probably hear more about it soon.
Rumors of various Silent Hill projects have been floating around online for several years now. There’s supposedly an all-new mainline entry, a complete remake of Silent Hill 2, and some kind of short story anthology by Annapurna Interactive.
Screenshots from one of these titles leaked online this past spring, but Konami quickly began taking them down via DMCA claims – more or less confirming that the pictures were authentic. It’s possible these images were from Silent Hill: The Short Message, but all we can do is speculate.
There’ll likely be plenty more Silent Hill whispers until Konami comes out and confirms these games exist. There hasn’t been an installment in this series since Silent Hill: Book of Memories came out on the PlayStation Vita in 2012.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.