Silent Hill 2 cover art

Silent Hill 2

2024 · Bloober Team · ~18h to finish

The only game here that ships the site’s own thesis as a menu option — combat and puzzle difficulty are two separate settings, and the two are genuinely unrelated demands.

horroradventurenarrativePCPlayStation 5
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.2MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$69.99

USD · United States · checked just now

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Puzzle
5.2
Obscurity
4.3
Reaction
4.0
Strategy
3.5
Punishment
3.5
Execution
3.4
Learning Curve
2.8
Grind
0.9
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 0.6 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Reaction drops 0.5 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 1.7 points off, if you use them.

These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 30% · ~5hPunishment

    the combat that is deliberately never allowed to feel good

    13
  2. 45% · ~8hPuzzle

    the riddles that are a different game from everything around them

    20

Assists & accessibility

0/3 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Combat and puzzle difficulty are separate settings, changed independently.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A remake of the 2001 psychological horror: a man searching a fog-covered town for his dead wife, told through combat encounters, sparse resources and standalone riddles.

Where to go from here

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