Silent Hill: Townfall lands on 24 September. Konami has dated the game, opened pre-orders, and promises a new trailer on 25 August during gamescom Opening Night Live. It is the second Silent Hill in two years, for a licence we had buried twice.
A date, three platforms, pre-orders open
The game arrives on PlayStation 5, Steam and the Epic Games Store. No Xbox announced at this stage, no Switch 2 either. Two editions are offered, a standard and a deluxe, the second adding bonus content. Pre-orders for both are already open.
Konami set this date back on 3 June, during a State of Play. Five weeks now separate us from release, and the publisher is entering its promotion phase.
A new trailer on 25 August, and an attraction in Cologne
Konami will be at gamescom with four titles, and Townfall is the headliner. The new trailer runs during the opening show on 25 August, the one that precedes the show floor opening.
On the floor, the publisher is building a dedicated attraction: an immersive Townfall experience on its booth, for visitors who want to be scared standing up. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse will be playable with a controller, which is not the case for Townfall.
A trailer on 25 August, a release on 24 September: four weeks to turn a trailer into pre-orders is the usual window in this business.
Townfall will not be alone on that ground. This edition of gamescom hosts Alien: Isolation 2 in playable form, the sequel to one of the few horror games everyone agreed on, and Metro 2039 with a controller for the first time. SEGA is also bringing Persona 4 Revival. For a show usually dominated by big action games, the room left for horror and atmosphere is unusual.
Silent Hill handed to an unknown Scottish studio
The game comes from Screen Burn Interactive, a Scottish studio, and it is co-published by Annapurna Interactive. Konami is not developing it. It is set in St. Amelia, not in the town of Silent Hill itself, and the camera moves to first person.
Rather than produce everything in-house, Konami hands its licence to outside teams and keeps the releases coming. The Silent Hill 2 remake was at Bloober Team, Townfall is at Screen Burn. The promise of one Silent Hill a year holds for now, but it holds because the developers are never the same.
The full line-up of the 25 August show is in our gamescom 2026 round-up. In that same slot, CD Projekt will show the first look at Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3. On the PlayStation side, the week was already taken up by the State of Play devoted to Phantom Blade Zero, in an industry where EA is announcing 700 million in cuts per year.
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