Konami Shadow Drops Silent Hill: The Short Message for free on PS5

Summary

• Konami has shadow-dropped The Silent Hill: The Short Message at the PlayStation State of Play event.
• The title is available exclusively for the PlayStation 5, but the catch is that it’s free.
• The Short Message is a first-person horror film that deals with contemporary issues like social media and cyberbullying.

Konami is a developer known for their eccentric moves, from the days of Pro Evolution Soccer and Silent Hill. Now, they have shadow-dropped a title the players did not see coming. 

Konami has shadow-dropped Silent Hill: The Short Message, a first-person horror title developed as an experimental project. In collaboration with Hexdrive, this project tackles contemporary issues like social media and cyberbullying and is now free for all PlayStation 5 Players.

Shadow-dropping a title is pretty standard. But for a studio of the stature of Konami, shadow-dropping a title without any marketing that too for free is unheard of.

What makes it even more unexpected is that players were excited about a Silent Hill 2 Remake, which is being developed by the Bloober team. Sony and Konami were pushing Silent Hill 2 Remake at the PlayStation State of Play event with a brand-new gameplay trailer.

This trailer showed the title’s creatures and brand-new combat. This is why Short Message surprised fans of the horror genre.

If history is anything to go by, players should get hold of Silent Hill: The Short Message immediately. This is because Konami had released PT, which was supposed to set the stage for the first Silent Hills game.

However, the creator, Hideo Kojima, broke away from Konami, so Konami removed PT from the PlayStation store altogether.

As a result, The Short Message will likely have some connection to the Silent Hill 2 Remake. Silent Hill: Townfall is also currently in development, and the release order remains unknown until further information is received from the developers.

About Silent Hill

Silent Hill is an anthology horror media franchise centered on a series of survival horror video games, created by Keiichiro Toyama, developed and published by Konami.

The first four video games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill 4: The Room, were developed by an internal group called Team Silent, a development staff within former Konami subsidiary Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.