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Silent Hill 4 PC Release Arrives After Metal Gear, Castlevania & Contra
Silent Hill 4: The Room is officially coming back to PC, following a leaked PEGI rating. The PC version of Silent Hill 4 was released alongside the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions when the game first launched in 2004.
The original Silent Hill is the only one of developer Team Silent's games that never made it to PC; the unforgettable Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4 all received ports of their own. However, none of these versions were ever made available digitally, meaning they haven't been sold outside of the secondhand market for years. This has been true of many other Konami games on PC as well. In fact, the PC ports of classic series like Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania and Contra just came to GOG after being restored and reconfigured for modern computers. Konami hasn't shown much interest in its IPs in a long time, but CD Projekt clearly has - and the company might be in the process of bringing another Konami IP back to PC.
A new rating for Silent Hill 4: The Room appeared on the official site of PEGI, the European game ratings board before being shadow dropped. The rating is for the PC version, and once again, the game has been given a PEGI 18 "due to graphic violence." Most intriguingly, the listing showed a specific release date of October 2, 2020 – which the game promptly nailed after it arrived on the GOG website.
While this listing seemingly came out of nowhere, the most likely scenario is that CD Projekt has continued to negotiate with Konami in order to get more of its older PC games onto GOG. Silent Hill 4 looks to be the latest of these, which begs the question: what about its predecessors? Searching the PEGI site for Silent Hill 2 and 3 only brings up the ratings for their older versions, respectively, and that sadly implies that the two survival-horror gems won't be coming to PC alongside Silent Hill 4.
Either way, fans have Silent Hill 4 to enjoy on PC. It's a much more convenient (and certainly cheaper) way to play Silent Hill 4 than having to track down a physical copy. It's just odd that its two prequels don't seem to be getting the same treatment despite their longstanding legacy and the obvious public demand, but one can't be sure yet. Maybe Konami is preparing to rerelease them in a different form, or better yet, maybe it's still planning to do something with Silent Hill on PS5.
