Konami Wants a New Silent Hill Game Every Year

Konami wants to release a new Silent Hill game every year, and the franchise's producer says the studio is already working on "many" unannounced projects to make that happen.

Motoi Okamoto, the Silent Hill series producer who oversaw the 2025 release of Silent Hill f, shared the plan at Gamescom 2026 on 27 August. Speaking to GamesRadar+, Okamoto said Konami is developing multiple Silent Hill titles simultaneously — a necessity if the publisher intends to hit an annual cadence. Okamoto first signalled the annual-release ambition in a Famitsu interview published 28 November 2025, as reported by Anime News Network on 30 December 2025 VGC.

The next title in the pipeline is Silent Hill: Townfall, scheduled to launch on 24 September 2026. Earlier in August, Konami released nearly 20 minutes of Townfall gameplay footage showing puzzle-solving and the first monster encounter. Silent Hill f, the most recent main entry, was released on 25 September 2025. A Japanese novelisation of f sold out due to high demand and received a large reprint around 27–28 November 2025.

Okamoto also addressed a creative shift that fans may have already noticed. Recent Silent Hill games have been set in Japan and Scotland rather than the fictional American town of suburban Maine that gave the series its name. That change is deliberate. Okamoto said the team wants to avoid exhausting narrative possibilities and causing player fatigue by staying in one location.

For context, Silent Hill began in 1999 as a Japanese-developed horror series set in an American town. Across more than two decades, the franchise explored that setting through multiple sequels and spin-offs before going largely dormant after 2012. Konami revived the brand in recent years with remakes, new entries and transmedia projects — the kind of broad rollout that an annual schedule would accelerate.

An annual release cycle is uncommon for horror franchises, which tend to take years between main entries. Publishing one game per year would put Silent Hill on a cadence closer to sports series or annualised action titles, and would require several studios or teams working in parallel — which Okamoto's reference to simultaneous development appears to confirm.

For fans, the practical upshot is more Silent Hill, more often, set in places the series has never explored. Whether that pace holds will depend on how the unannounced projects come together — and how Townfall lands when it arrives next month.