KonamiThe next main entry in the Silent Hill series is coming, but the reveal and subsequent trailers for Silent Hill f gave us more questions than answers. Here’s everything we know so far including trailers, its release date and more.
Silent Hill f was the final, and arguably biggest, announcement of the Silent Hill transmission. The game is intended to be the next mainline entry of the franchise, taking the place of the canceled Silent Hills and P.T. However, Silent Hill f looks very different from what has come before. The title is being developed by the studio NeoBards, with creative contributions from writer Ryukishi07.
For the first time in the series, the next entry won’t be set in the titular town of Silent Hill. Instead, the action appears to be a prequel and takes place in a Japanese town – one that is being taken over by some kind of red flowering blight that follows a schoolgirl as she attempts to escape it.
Here’s everything we know about Silent Hill f.
KonamiDoes Silent Hill f have a release date?
Silent Hill f launches on September 25, 2025.
What platforms will Silent Hill f be on?
Silent Hill f will be coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It isn’t year clear if a Switch 2 port of the title is planned, though the title getting ported to the console isn’t off the table.
Trailer
Check out the creepy announcement trailer for Silent Hill f below:
This was followed by an even more disturbing story/reveal trailer during the 2025 Silent Hill Transmission:
Another trailer was released during the June 2025 PlayStation State of Play:
And finally, a trailer was shown at Gamescom 2025 that gave a bit more detail about the story.
Title meaning
The F in the title resembles the musical sign of forte in the trailer. In music, this symbol means loud or strong in music, therefore, Silent Hill f could represent this in some capacity.
Exactly what the implications of Forte could mean for the plot or gameplay, though, remains to be seen. If anything at all, it could be interpreted as some kind of warning.
Gameplay and setting
The story of the game will be set in Japan during the Shōwa period in the 1960s. This means that the game is a prequel to the original Silent Hill being set many years before it. The game will not be set in the titular town but will likely have a connection to it by the end.
The game could even serve as an explanation as to why the town of Silent Hill becomes such a hellish nightmare, with some unknown horror traveling there from Japan. There’s every possibility that the town in this game is a separate Silent Hill, however, we imagine there will be some kind of connection to the town in Maine we’ve visited in all the other games.
At one point in the trailer, the girl is dragging a metal pipe along the floor in a similar fashion to how the iconic Pyramid Head (or Red Pyramid Thing) menacingly drags his various weapons in multiple Silent Hill entries. This implies a connection between Silent Hill f and the previous games.
KonamiQuite what the red flowering blight infecting the town in the trailer is remains a mystery, but it clearly represents some form of corruption as well as beauty. As ever with Silent Hill, this beautiful corruption is likely to be literal and metaphoric.
So, that’s everything we know so far about Silent Hill f. For more on the biggest upcoming releases, check out our pages on some of the most-anticipated games that have been announced:
