Last chance
Silent Hill 2 leaves PS Plus on October 20: one last week to walk into the fog
- Critic score
- 86
- Player rating
- 4.8/5
- Main story
- 16.1 h
- Genre
- Adventure, Action
The Silent Hill 2 remake is one of the games leaving the PS Plus catalog on October 20. It is among the best-rated games on the departure list, and it fits into a long weekend: if you had set it aside, now is the time.
James Sunderland receives a letter from his wife Mary. She is waiting for him, she writes, in their "special place" in Silent Hill. The trouble is that Mary died three years ago. James goes anyway, and finds a deserted town drowned in fog, where a woman who looks exactly like his wife is waiting and says her name is Maria.
Released on PS2 in 2001, Silent Hill 2 is often called the high point of psychological horror. Bloober Team's remake, published by Konami in 2024, keeps the story, the characters and the puzzles, but moves to an over-the-shoulder camera and rebuilds every location from scratch. The Wood Side apartments, Brookhaven Hospital and Toluca Prison are bigger, more detailed and genuinely more oppressive.
The game frightens less through its monsters than through what it is saying. Every creature, every character you meet, and the pyramid-helmeted figure stalking James, points to something he refuses to look at. The ending you get depends on how you played, without the game telling you: whether you keep James healed, read certain letters, stay close to Maria.
Expect around fifteen hours for a first run, a little more if you search every room. Combat is deliberately heavy: this is not Resident Evil, and running is often the better choice. Sound matters enormously, so play with headphones if you can.
Once it leaves, you will have to buy it to come back. If you only play one game from the departure list before the 20th, make it this one.