Simon Ordell is called back to the island of St. Amelia to ‘put things right’, encountering a town lying quiet beneath a heavy fog, seemingly abandoned but not at rest.

 

Venturing deeper, and driven to understand his connection to the place and its inhabitants, Simon begins to discover fragments of a past rising to the surface.

 

Experienced entirely in first person, Simon must explore, evade, and survive using a limited set of weapons and tools, including the CRTV, a pocket television used to tune into unstable signals. Evasion is tense; combat is frenetic, while narrative driven puzzles reveal a truth that refuses to stay submerged.

 

SILENT HILL: Townfall is a full-length, self-contained psychological horror set against the cold, isolated backdrop of Scotland, 1996.

 

Silent Hill: Townfall is a 2026 survival horror game developed by Screen Burn Interactive, and published by Konami Digital Entertainment and Annapurna Interactive. The game is a standalone spin-off of the Silent Hill franchise. Set in 1996 in the fictional Scottish town of St. Amelia, it follows Simon Ordell after he wakes up in a place he seemingly has no connection to.

 

Townfall released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on 24 September 2026. The game was met with generally favorable reviews from critics.

 

Gameplay

 

Silent Hill: Townfall is played from a first-person perspective.[1] While Simon can use melee weapons such as planks and pipes to defend himself, he can also use stealth to hide from enemies. Simon is equipped with a CRT handheld device which allows him to detect the location of nearby enemies.[2]

 

Plot

 

Premise

 

In 1996, Simon Ordell (voiced by Jovan Adepo) repeatedly finds himself waking up in the water next to the docks in the town of St. Amelia in Scotland.[3] Simon must discover fragments of the past in order to understand his connection to the town.[4]

 

Synopsis

 

Simon Ordell awakens on the shores of the island town of St. Amelia with no memory of how or why he is there. Exploring the town, he finds it is shrouded in fog and completely abandoned save for numerous monsters roaming the streets. He finds a portable television, branded as CRTV, and is contacted by a man named Richard, who urges Simon to fulfill his purpose. Simon also finds himself on the trail of Zoe Ellis, a local nurse he has some form of connection to. As Simon follows both Zoe and Richard's trails, he collects clues around the town as well as views recordings transmitted to his CRTV that begin to explain the situation to him. He, Zoe, and Richard all appear to be trapped in a purgatory-like realm that takes the form of St. Amelia, where they are doomed to eternally relive the events that caused their feelings of guilt.