The Medium: A Spiritual Successor to Silent Hill?

Fans of the classic survival horror franchise might be in luck

Silent Hill fans like myself across the globe live in hope, possibly delusional hope, that the series will make a return to our screens in some form or other. Those rumours of a PS5 exclusive Silent Hill, “Project Zero”, don’t seem to be going away — but as it stands, they are indeed just rumours, unsubstantiated, and from questionable sources. It’s fun to speculate as always, and we live in hope.

Meanwhile, the gaming industry continues to turn, and developers, both large and small, have been doing an exceptional job at creating fear on their own terms. They’ve gone some way to fill the void from Silent Hill’s absence, for some, even surpassing its legacy as a horror masterpiece. Darkwood, Outlast, Soma — games of genuine terror, and existential horror, that remains with us long after we switch our screens off.

However, we potentially have a real contender, a real spiritual successor to Silent Hill. A game which not only has similarities aesthetically, but thematically as well. And it also happens to have one member from Team Silent on board, the legendary musician Akira Yamaoka.

That game is The Medium.