Konami and Screen Burn Interactive dropped the Silent Hill: Townfall launch trailer on September 21, 2026, 3 days ahead of the game’s September 24 release on PS5 and PC. It’s a moody, mostly-wordless tour of the fictional Scottish fishing town of St. Amelia, and it’s the clearest look yet at who Simon is walking into a nightmare with.
Trailer via SILENT HILL (Official) on YouTube.
| Release date | September 24, 2026 |
| Platforms | PS5, PC (Steam, Epic Games Store) — not confirmed for Xbox at launch |
| Developer | Screen Burn Interactive (formerly No Code) |
| Publisher | Konami, co-published with Annapurna Interactive |
| Perspective | First-person |
| Lead cast | Jovan Adepo as Simon, Kezia Burrows as Zoe, Terry O’Quinn as Richard |
| Setting | St. Amelia, a fictional Scottish fishing village, winter 1996 |
Simon Walks Into Town Alone
The trailer opens on a man in a burgundy puffer vest and beanie, walking St. Amelia’s fogged-in streets at night. He stops and looks up at a lit sign for what reads as the Haldane Hotel, the kind of small establishing beat that tells you nothing dramatic yet — just a stranger, alone, sizing up a town he doesn’t seem to know. Everything about the framing keeps him small against the buildings. That’s Simon, the first-person protagonist Jovan Adepo plays, and the whole trailer is built around his point of view.
There’s a Second Man the Trailer Won’t Name
A few cuts later, a bald man in a dark suit sits alone in a bare, fluorescent-lit room, reading something off his phone. He’s shot cold and clinical, none of the handheld unease that follows Simon through the fog. Neither the trailer nor its title cards put a name to him.
The Hospital Beats Feel Like a Direct Silent Hill Callback
A woman in dark blue scrubs moves through a hospital corridor, seen mostly from behind and in profile, lit half in green fluorescent light and half in a wash of red. It’s a deliberate nod to the series’ history of hospital settings and nurse enemies, and the trailer plays the ambiguity straight: nothing on screen tells you yet whether she’s a person or something wearing the uniform.
St. Amelia Is Already Grieving Somebody
One of the trailer’s quietest shots is also its most unsettling: a wall built up out of the fog, covered in photographs, candles, flowers and children’s drawings, with a hand-painted banner reading “We Will Always Remember” strung across the top. It plays like a real-world memorial wall, the kind that goes up after a town loses people it can’t explain losing. The trailer never says who it’s for.
Something That Used to Be a Person
Near the end, the trailer finally shows a monster: a tall, skinless-looking humanoid figure with a smooth, featureless head, hunched against a wall in a red-lit corridor lined with what look like caged cells. It’s on screen for barely a moment, cut fast, and it’s the only creature the trailer gives a real look at — everything else stays in silhouette or out of frame entirely.
The Trailer’s Closing Card Confirms the Date and the Platforms
The trailer ends on key art of Simon holding a battered radio-like device, with the release date and platform logos laid out underneath. PlayStation, Steam and the Epic Games Store are all there. Xbox isn’t, matching what reporters had already confirmed before this trailer even dropped.
What’s New Here
This is the first Townfall trailer built entirely around Simon’s own point of view rather than cutting away to cinematic third-person shots, which lines up with reporting that the game plays entirely in first person. It’s also the first trailer to put the memorial-wall imagery and the suited stranger on screen at all — earlier marketing, including the game’s Tokyo Game Show push three days before this trailer, leaned on Simon and the town itself rather than showing other characters this directly.
What the Trailer Doesn’t Show
No dialogue is audible anywhere in the trailer, so nothing here confirms who the suited man or the nurse-uniformed woman actually are, and neither Zoe nor Richard gets an on-screen introduction by name. The monster shot is a single, brief look, with no sense of how it’s actually fought or avoided in play. And despite the platform logos on the closing card, Xbox owners still don’t have a release window of their own.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does Silent Hill: Townfall come out?
Silent Hill: Townfall releases September 24, 2026, on PS5 and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Is Silent Hill: Townfall coming to Xbox?
Not at launch. Reporting from GameSpot and others confirms the game is skipping Xbox consoles when it releases, with no Xbox date announced.
Who stars in Silent Hill: Townfall?
Jovan Adepo plays protagonist Simon, Kezia Burrows plays Zoe and Terry O’Quinn plays Richard, the three cast members Konami has named so far.
Is Silent Hill: Townfall connected to Silent Hill 2?
It’s a standalone spin-off with its own cast and story, developed by Screen Burn Interactive rather than Bloober Team. GameSpot has noted thematic echoes of Silent Hill 2, but the games aren’t otherwise connected.
Who developed Silent Hill: Townfall?
Screen Burn Interactive, the studio formerly known as No Code, developed the game. Konami owns the Silent Hill IP and co-publishes with Annapurna Interactive.
For more on the cast, check out the game’s full cast reveal. There’s also a full breakdown of everything we know about Townfall’s story and setting, and a look at what Konami showed at its final Tokyo Game Show push just days before this trailer dropped.
