KEY POINTS

  • Bloober Team denied that it is working on a "Silent Hill" game
  • The developers said that two previously leaked projects were no longer being developed
  • Bloober Team is currently working on a different game under the codename "Black"

Months of rumors, leaks and speculations regarding a potential “Silent Hill” remake may have just gotten shut down permanently after Bloober Team, the alleged developers of the rumored project, denied that it is working on anything related to the franchise.

Bloober Team CMO Tomasz Gawlikowski told IGN in an interview that they are not working on a “Silent Hill” game despite the many rumors online. He said that the three projects that users discovered were completely different games and that two of the said projects have since been shelved.

The three projects in question are codenames “Black,” “H2O” and “Dum Spiro.” Internet users found the codenames of these projects on the E.U.’s Creative Europe website, which led some fans to speculate that one of the projects was a “Silent Hill” remake.

Codename “Black” appears to be a survival horror game in a historical setting with visceral melee combat and ambiguous moral choices, according to the Creative Europe entry. Meanwhile, “Dum Spiro” is labeled as a horror game set in a World War 2-era Polish Jew ghetto.

Project “H2O” turned out to be “Layers of Fear 2,” a psychological horror game set in an ocean liner. The game was released back in 2019 and was met with generally favorable reviews.

The Medium emphasizes exploration on both planes of the game's reality
The Medium emphasizes exploration on both planes of the game's reality Bloober Team

Gawlikowski said that they are no longer developing “Dum Spiro” due to the sensitivity regarding the game’s topic and that the original iteration of “Black” was shelved due to similar reasons.

However, he mentioned that they are working on a completely different game under the “Black” codename and noted that it is completely different from what people can read on the internet nowadays.

Bloober Team recently released “The Medium,” a third-person psychological horror with a dual-reality mechanic similar to the “Silent Hill” games. The similarity between the two games may have caused fans of the latter to speculate about Bloober’s involvement with a “Silent Hill” remake.

It’s unknown what type of game the new project “Black” is going to be, but as it stands, fans will have to count Bloober Team out of the “Silent Hill” hype for the time being, unless until official word is given by the company itself.

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