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Silent Hill: The Short Message has surpassed one million downloads, publisher Konami has announced.

In a post on the Japanese Silent Hill X/Twitter account, Konami celebrated the milestone for the free-to-play Silent Hill spin-off. Confirmation The Short Message surpassed "over one million downloads" arrived in artwork depicting the creepy post-it notes appearing in the game.

The Short Message was revealed and released during Sony's first PlayStation State of Play presentation of 2024 on January 31 and takes players to modern day Germany. Taking on the role of Anita, players explore a typically spooky house called The Villa from a first-person perspective, in what Konami described as an "experimental" taste of the wider Silent Hill franchise.

 

[Flabagast]

Good, gaffers should try it

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

People have been engaged.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

I'm sorry, but how is this a big deal for them?
It's a free-to-play game... And a Silent Hill game.

It's like when Virtua Fighter 5 had a bunch of downloads, when it was free.

But different from VF, this a arguably really bad, and not subtle at all, Silent Hill game.

Just because 1 million people downloaded it, doesn't say much about how people felt about this new "experimental taste of the wider Silent Hill..... franchise"

"Franchise"

Something about Konami saying that word, bothers me.