Silent Hill f named Japan's best horror game of the year

On 11 September, at a festival in Tokyo, the horror game Silent Hill f took the top prize at the new Japan Horror Game Awards.

How they chose

They looked at games with horror that came out roughly from March 2025 through March 2026. Voting ran from mid-July into early August: players, writers and journalists, then a pass by the organisers. There is one grand prize. The same Silent Hill f also took psychological horror; the other slots went elsewhere.

The jury likes the story and how it is built, not fog for its own sake. You can follow it even when nothing is spelled out. The girl fights with her hands and whatever she grabs, no pistol, and that sits right in the series. Play it again and the plot lands differently. For a lot of people this is not a carbon copy of old Silent Hill, which is why it was not only longtime fans who voted.

About the game

You play a schoolgirl, Hinako. Fog swallows her hometown, flowers crawl the streets, and creatures come out of that beauty. You beat them off by hand; there is no gun. Between fights you poke through houses and temples and work odd puzzles. This is not the American resort Silent Hill. It is a Japanese town from the middle of the last century: family, marriage, fox stories, reality and visions tangled together. The script is by the writer of Higurashi: When They Cry. It has been on Steam since September 2025.

Reviews

Steam already has more than 29,000 reviews, and about 80% of them are positive. They praise the atmosphere, the Japanese town, the music, and how the story opens up on a second run. They knock the fights: they drag, you have to catch your breath between swings or you get caught fast. They also write that the first loop barely makes sense, that the endings that count need extra playthroughs, and that this is not the Silent Hill they wanted after the second game's remake.

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