Silent Hill f is the next installment in Konami’s legendary franchise, set to launch on September 25, 2025. This entry takes us back to the 1960s, into a small Japanese town, where we’ll step into the shoes of teenage Shimizu Hinako.
The game promises a mix of beauty and terror, twisted narrative storytelling, and deep psychological horror — blending Konami’s classic approach with a fresh, eerie perspective from none other than Ryukishi07.
| Game | Release | Genre | Developer | Video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Visage | 2018-10-02 | Puzzle & Simulator | SadSquare Studio | |
 | SIGNALIS | 2022-10-27 | Adventure & Indie | rose-engine | |
 | FATAL FRAME PROJECT ZERO Mask Of The Lunar Eclipse | 2023-03-09 | Adventure | Koei Tecmo Games | |
 | Crow Country | 2024-05-09 | Adventure & Shooter | SFB Games | |
 | Higurashi When They Cry Hou Ch2 Watanagashi | 2015-11-13 | Adventure & Visual Novel | 07th Expansion | |
 | Someday Youll Return Directors Cut | 2020-05-05 | Indie & Adventure | CBE software | |
 | Scorn | 2022-10-14 | Puzzle & Adventure | Ebb Software | |
 | The Medium | 2021-01-28 | Adventure | Bloober Team | |
 | GhostWire: Tokyo | 2022-03-25 | Adventure | Tango Gameworks | |
 | Silent Hill 2 | 2024-10-08 | Adventure | Bloober Team |
If you’re already counting the days until release and hunting for alternatives — or if you’re craving more of that psychological horror Japanese flavor mixed with survival dread — we’ve got your back.
Here’s our ranking of 10 games like Silent Hill f. From retro revivals to supernatural nightmares, here are the top horror games ranked that carry a strong Silent Hill vibe.
Visage
| Release date: | 2018-10-02 |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Developer: | SadSquare Studio |
A haunting psychological horror adventure that nails that claustrophobic, oppressive feeling Silent Hill fans love.
You’re trapped in a cursed, haunted house with a gruesome past. Room by room, you explore, uncover its dark history, and try to escape.
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Signalis
| Release date: | 2022-10-27 |
| Genre: | Adventure & Indie |
| Developer: | rose-engine |
An old-school-inspired survival horror wrapped in pixel-art, manga-style visuals. The devs openly admit they drew heavily from early Silent Hill entries, blending twisted narratives with an unsettling atmosphere.
You play as Elster, an android engineer who crash-lands on a mysterious, hostile planet while searching for a missing crewmate — all while battling strange visions and fractured memories.
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Fatal Frame (aka Project Zero)
| Release date: | 2023-03-09 |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Developer: | Koei Tecmo Games |
A classic that never fully faded, known for its eerie take on Japanese horror. Even if it wasn’t directly inspired by Silent Hill, its Japanese folklore horror undertones give it that same chilling vibe.
You play as Miku Hinasaki, a girl searching for her missing brother inside a cursed mansion crawling with nightmares.
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Ghostwire: Tokyo
| Release date: | 2022-03-25 |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Developer: | Tango Gameworks |
Created under Shinji Mikami (the father of Resident Evil), Ghostwire mixes urban mystery with Japanese folklore horror.
As one of the few survivors of a mysterious event that wiped out most of Tokyo’s population, you must fight mythological monsters and uncover the truth behind humanity’s disappearance.
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Crow Country
| Release date: | 2024-05-09 |
| Genre: | Puzzle, Survival Horror |
| Developer: | SFB Games |
A retro-inspired, low-poly survival horror where you play as a teenage girl — much like Silent Hill f’s protagonist — unraveling a disappearance in a nightmarish setting.
Set in 1990 inside the closed-down Crow Country amusement park, you’ll uncover what happened to its founder, Edward Crow, while battling horrors lurking in the abandoned grounds.
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Siren: Blood Curse (aka Siren: New Translation)
| Release date: | 2008-06-24 |
| Genre: | Survival Horror, Stealth, Shooter |
| Developer: | Japan Studio |
A remake of the 2003 PS2 classic, created in part by Keiichiro Toyama, one of Silent Hill’s original minds.
Set in a Japanese coastal village haunted by legendary sirens, you are part of a film crew investigating them — until both most of your team and locals mutate into zombie-like monsters. Survival becomes the only goal.
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Higurashi When They Cry
| Release date: | 2015-11-13 |
| Genre: | Adventure & Visual Novel |
| Developer: | 07th Expansion |
A visual novel steeped in retro horror and Japanese folklore, created by the same writer behind Silent Hill f: Ryukishi07.
The story follows Keiichi Maebara, a teen who moves to a small town and quickly befriends classmates — until a series of gruesome murders tears the illusion apart. Events are told from multiple perspectives, slowly forming a single terrifying picture.
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Someday You’ll Return
| Release date: | 2020-05-05 |
| Genre: | Adventure & Indie |
| Developer: | CBE software |
A story-rich horror adventure that shares Silent Hill f’s vibe of exploring eerie landscapes while hunting for a missing loved one.
You play as a father searching for his missing daughter in the Czech woods, solving puzzles and navigating through increasingly sinister environments.
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Scorn
| Release date: | 2022-10-14 |
| Genre: | Puzzle & Adventure |
| Developer: | Ebb Software |
Inspired by H.R. Giger, Zdzisław Beksiński, and David Cronenberg, this is a surreal sci-fi horror dripping with grotesque detail. Like Silent Hill f, it lives in that unsettling space between dream and nightmare.
You’re thrown into a dark, alien world full of puzzles and terrifying enemies. Miss one detail, and the game can quickly turn against you.
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The Medium
| Release date: | 2021-01-28 |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Developer: | Bloober Team |
A modern horror that openly embraces its Silent Hill inspiration. In fact, the soundtrack was crafted by none other than Akira Yamaoka, the legendary composer behind Silent Hill’s most iconic scores.
Interestingly, Bloober Team — the creators of The Medium — are also behind the warmly received remake of Silent Hill 2.
You play as Marianne, a medium able to cross between the real world and the spirit realm. After visions of a child’s death, she dives into both decaying real-world locations and nightmarish spirit landscapes to solve the mystery.
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And that wraps up our horror rankings! Do you agree with our picks for the top horror games ranked, or would you shuffle the order and put some titles higher or lower on the list?